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Prelude: “Chosen Destiny”
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Arrangement: Charles Booker © 2015 BandT Publications
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Call to Worship and God’s Greeting
Sung Call to Worship: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
Text: Robert Robinson, 1758, alt.
Music (NETTLETON): J. Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part II, 1813
Arrangements: Johnnie Vinson © 2008 MusicWorks, distributed by HalLeonard; James Biery © 2014 Birnamwood Publications, a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc.; Joel Raney © 2002 Hope Publishing Company
All rights reserved. OneLicense.net A-703303. Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Words of Praise: Psalm 107
Song of Praise: “This Is My Father’s World”
Text: Maltbie D. Babcock
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Arrangements: Timothy P. Howard © 2023 tphmusic; Wayne Fritchie © 2023 WPF Music
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Call to Confession and Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon: “This Is Our Savior’s World”
Text: Julie Tai © Julie Tai
Music (TERRA BEATA): English; adapt. Franklin L. Sheppard
Used by permission.
Song of Response: “Song of the Prophets”
Text: Michael Morgan © Faith Alive Christian Resources
Music (STAR OF COUNTY DOWN): Irish traditional; arr. Rory Cooney © 1990 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer for Illumination, Scripture Reading
Sermon and Prayer of Application
Song of Response: “Day by Day”
Text and Music: Lowana Wallace and Isaac Wardell © 2017 Porter’s Gate Publishing and Hymns from the Porter’s Gate
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayers of the People with Refrain “Day by Day”
Text and Music: Terrell Wilson, Brittney Spencer, Micah Massey, and Aaron Keyes © 10000 Fathers, BSpencer Publishing, Common Hymnal Digital, Common Hymnal Publishing, The Wilson Songbook Publishing
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Parting Blessing
Closing Song: “Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Text: Thomas O. Chisholm, 1923, © 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Music (FAITHFULNESS): William M. Runyan, 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Arrangements: Charles Booker © 2019 BandT Publications; Mark Armstrong © 1993 Dayspring Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Conference Welcome and Announcements
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
