1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2025 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
This worship service is musically led by Symposium contributor Raymond Wise and the Calvin University Gospel Choir, directed by Nate Glasper. Dennis Edwards delivers the message on Luke 16:19-31, “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”
This service was originally recorded at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Service Outline:
Gathering Song: “We Have Come into This House”
Bruce T. Ballinger
CCLI Song #17212
© 1976 MCA Music Publ., A.D.O. Universal Studio; Sound III, Inc.
Call to Worship
Song of Praise: “Make a Joyful Noise”
Raymond Wise
Copyright © 1996 Raise Publishing Company
PO. Box 247574, Columbus, Ohio 43223-7574
Made in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved
Greeting
Song: “I’d Rather Have Jesus”
Written by Jimmie R. Wyatt
Performed by Dallas Fort Worth Mass Choir
© Copyright Jimmy’s Jams Publishing (BMI). All rights reserved.
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
The Lord’s Prayer: “The Lord’s Prayer” (Swahili)
Raymond Wise
Copyright © 2004 Raise Publishing Company
197 Monarch Dr. Pataskala, Ohio 43062
Made in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved
Reading of the Scripture: Luke 16:19-31
Song: “Poor Man Lazarus”
© Copyright 1955 Bourne Co., New York, NY
All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Printed in USA.
Prayers of the People/Litany
Song: “Silver and Gold”
CCLI Song # 1892697
Kirk Franklin
© 1993 Lilly Mack Music
Prayer of Illumination
Sermon
Song of Response: “Fix Me”
Raymond Wise
Copyright © 1992 Raise Publishing Company
PO. Box 247574, Columbus, Ohio 43223-7574
Made in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved
Blessing
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.
