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This worship service features music led by the Calvin University Capella and the Hope College Chapel Choir, directed by Mark Stover and Eric Reyes and accompanied by organist Rhonda Sider Edgington. Nicole Massie Martin gives the sermon on the persistent widow of Luke 18:1-8.
This service was originally recorded at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on 91.
Service Outline:
Sung Prayer: “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying”
Text and Music: Ken Medema © 1973 Hope Publishing Company
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Call to 91
God’s Greeting
Song: “Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven”
Text: Henry F. Lyte, 1834
Music: LAUDA ANIMA; John Goss, 1869; arr. Larry Visser © 2015 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Prayer of Confession
Silent Prayer
Choral Prayer of Confession: “Precious Lord”
Text and Music: Thomas A. Dorsey; arr. Arnold Sevier © 1938 Unichappell Music, Inc.; arr. © 1996 Unichappell Music, Inc.
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Assurance of Pardon
Sung Response: “O Love”
Text: George Matheson (1842-1906)
Music: Elaine Hagenberg © 2016 Beckenhorst Press, Inc.
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Prayer for Illumination
Scripture Reading: Luke 18:1-8
Sermon
Sung Response: “With What Shall I Come”
Text: based on Micah 6:6-8
Music: Rosephanye Powell © 2023 Gentry Publications, admin. Fred Bock Publishing Group
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Prayers of the People
Song: “Abana in Heaven”
Text and Music: Laila Constantine, Lebanon © 2002 Songs of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt, Council of Pastoral Work and Evangelism, admin. Faith Alive Christian Resources; tr. and adapt. Anne Emile Zaki, Emily R. Brink, Greg Scheer, and Maged Dakouk © 2008, 2012 Faith Alive Christian Resources.
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Blessing
Sending Song: “Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service”
Text: Albert F. Bayly, alt., © 1988 Oxford University Press
Music: PLEADING SAVIOR; J. Leavitt’s Christian Lyre, 1830; harm. stanzas 1-2 Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906; harm. stanzas 3-4 and descant, Larry Visser, 2024 © 2025 Larry Visser
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Sending
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
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The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
