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Your people will rebuild the cities that were destroyed long ago; And you will build again on the old foundations. You will be called the One Who Repairs Broken Walls; You will be called the One Who Makes City Streets Like New Again.
Isaiah 58:12
We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by Grace and Peace Church of Chicago, Illinois, and pastor Sandra Maria Van Opstal. Grace and Peace Church envisions a community of broken people being restored and raised up by God’s saving grace for all generations. The mission of The Grace and Peace Community is to bring restoration to the northwest side of Chicago by actively living out God’s Word until Christ’s glorious return. Grace and Peace Church is an urban congregation that intentionally embraces and actively reaches out to the northwest side of Chicago in all ethnic diversity.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
A Psalm Talk by Jared E. Alcántara recorded at the 2026 Psalms 150 conference, with a visual prayer and embodied response from artist Dea Jenkins.
