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2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Vesper
Pre-service Singing
Votum and Greeting
Song: “God of Love and Faithfulness”
The Lord’s Prayer
Confession of Faith: “My Help Comes from the Lord”
Psalm 121
Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1–10
Song: “Whiter than Snow”
Psalm 51
Prayer: Psalm 86:1–5
Song: “Teach Me, Lord”
Psalm 86
Scripture Reading: Psalm 119:10–12
Song: “Happy Are Those”
Psalm 119
Scripture Reading: Psalm 25:4–5
Song: “Lord, to You My Soul Is Lifted”
Psalm 25
Scripture Reading: Matthew 5:6–9
Song: “Prayer for the King”
Psalm 72
Scripture Reading: Psalm 51:15
Song: “Bless the Lord, My Soul”
Psalm 103
Song: “How Good It Is”
Psalm 133
Blessing: Psalm 5:11–12
Song: “Come, All You Servants of the Lord”
Psalm 134
We are grateful for the planning and leading of this service by The Psalm Project and Laura de Jong.
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
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.
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
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.
Join this excursion through compositional method, use of text, melodic creation, vocal range, and inner insights. The session includes the presentation of new psalm settings by Rawn Harbor.
