1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 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
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.
