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Modern song writers are continually setting the psalms to new music for band-led worship contexts. Join Paul Ryan, Nate Glasper, and the Calvin University Worship Apprentices to sing contemporary psalm settings sung in public worship at Calvin.
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“Psalm 150 (Praise the Lord)”
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa
© 2020 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Love Your Enemies Publishing; Messenger Hymns CCLI License #400063
“Let the Earth Be Glad (Psalm 96)”
Wendell Kimbrough
© 2020 Kimbrough, Wendell; CCLI License #400063
“From Everlasting (Psalm 90)”
Lacy Hudson, Lisa Clow
© 2021 Sovereign Grace Praise; CCLI License #400063
“Be Still (Psalm 46)”
Wendell Kimbrough
© 2021 Kimbrough, Wendell; CCLI License #400063
“Psalm 27 (The Lord Is My Light)”
Jordan Kauflin, Laura Story, Matthew Merker
© 2024 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Jordan Kauflin Music; Laura's Stories and Songs; Matthew Merker Music; CCLI License #400063
“Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call (Psalm 42)”
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa
© 2018 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Love Your Enemies Publishing; Messenger Hymns; CCLI License #400063
“I Will Wait for You (Psalm 130)”
Jordan Kauflin, Keith Getty, Matthew Merker, Stuart Townend
© 2018 Getty Music Publishing; Jordan Kauflin Music; Matthew Merker Music; Townend Songs; CCLI License #400063
“God Is Faithful (Psalm 114)”
Bob Kauflin, Lacy Hudson
© 2022 Sovereign Grace Praise; CCLI License #400063
“Oh Give Thanks (Psalm 107)”
Wendell Kimbrough
© 2014 Kimbrough, Wendell; CCLI License #400063
“Yahweh (Psalm 84)” Adam Daniel Westlake, Britton Hardcastle, Carrie Elizabeth Hardcastle, George Douglas Koehl, Laela Beth Dasher, Mac Hayes, Max Dasher
© More Songs From Wellhouse; Songs From Wellhouse; CCLI License #400063
This session was originally recorded at Psalms 150: A Conference Experience.
Join us after the University worship service (chapel) for a conversation with worship leader Kimberly Williams. We will explore topics related to worship leading and planning for diverse congregations, leading teams, songwriting and recording, and mentoring women in ministry.
In this session Terry Wildman will share the vision, process, and outcomes of the First Nations Version (FNV) New Testament. Why was this translation needed? Who was involved in the translation? What were some of the cultural challenges faced by the translation council? What does it say about the translations done in Native languages in the past? How did the translation council decide on more than 185 key words and terms? What are some of the unique qualities of the FNV versus other English versions? How has the FNV affected the worship expressions of some Native believers? What is the future of the FNV?
How does one think about diversity as a Christian or as the church? How might working with and among—or even just thinking about—migrant neighbors contribute to our ecclesial identity? The language of catholicity allows us to imagine the unity of the church not in a monocultural way, but rather as a community inclusive of people of all languages and ethnicities. Migration and migrants today especially remind the church of its own catholic identity. How does the church's identity as a migrant church foster a healthy catholicity in the church's worship? This session will include the use of salsa music to invite participation in a more catholic way of life, asking what multicultural, cross cultural, and intercultural ways of being a church on the move might look like in worship.
Join us after the University worship service (chapel) for a conversation with worship leader Kimberly Williams. We will explore topics related to worship leading and planning for diverse congregations, leading teams, songwriting and recording, and mentoring women in ministry.
In this session Terry Wildman will share the vision, process, and outcomes of the First Nations Version (FNV) New Testament. Why was this translation needed? Who was involved in the translation? What were some of the cultural challenges faced by the translation council? What does it say about the translations done in Native languages in the past? How did the translation council decide on more than 185 key words and terms? What are some of the unique qualities of the FNV versus other English versions? How has the FNV affected the worship expressions of some Native believers? What is the future of the FNV?
How does one think about diversity as a Christian or as the church? How might working with and among—or even just thinking about—migrant neighbors contribute to our ecclesial identity? The language of catholicity allows us to imagine the unity of the church not in a monocultural way, but rather as a community inclusive of people of all languages and ethnicities. Migration and migrants today especially remind the church of its own catholic identity. How does the church's identity as a migrant church foster a healthy catholicity in the church's worship? This session will include the use of salsa music to invite participation in a more catholic way of life, asking what multicultural, cross cultural, and intercultural ways of being a church on the move might look like in worship.
As inhabitants of the modern age, we are deeply marked by skewed ways of thinking that thwart our humanness, our involvement with the world, and our spirituality. This is a philosophical tune-up that directly challenges and dispels modernity’s implicit philosophy. My philosophical proposals in my 2023 book Doorway to Artistry target the creative process, but they positively affect and bring healing to all arenas of life and work and worship. I pose that we as human persons are meant to live out a joyous “yes” to the real, and our involvement with the real takes the form of intimate encounter and communion. My approach reflects especially on God’s creative act and God’s created things. It taps epiphany, the redemptive encounter, and the Eucharist as paradigms for our knowing, our artistry, and all our everyday involvement with the world, so it should make us better at our stewardly dominion and voicing creation’s praise in worship.
