9/2/2023 0 Comments Psalm 124 sung responsivelyThe spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, Nor the sinner in the council of the righteous.įor the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall be destroyed.ĭaily increase in us your gifts of grace: Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes, It is not so with the wicked they are like chaff which the wind blows away. They are like trees planted by streams of water,īearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither Nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!Īnd they meditate on God’s teaching day and night. Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, Psalm 1: A responsorial with the singing of “Trees” (see RW 116) “May the Mind of Christ My Savior” LUYH 334, PsH 291, SWM 211, TH 644, WR 646 “Gracious Spirit, Heed Our Pleading” LUYH 320, SNC 166, GTG 287Ĭall to Worship based on Psalm 124:8 118:24 51:15Īnd our mouths shall declare your praise. “Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord” LUYH 537, WR 656, GTG 452 They are offered here for your congregation’s use and reflection but also to serve as an encouragement to use the arts as a means to respond to God’s Word. The sketches that accompany several of the services were created during the worship offered at synod in response to what the Spirit was saying to artist and pastor Randy Beumer. Four services are included here, with additional services and resources found online. As always, feel free to adapt these service outlines for use in your worshiping community. Video links for each service are included at the end of the service. The outlines of the messages are included with the online version of this article. The meditations can be expanded to full-length sermons, and some additional suggestions for use in Sunday worship have been included here. These services were originally intended to be approximately 30-35 minutes in length, as the sermon was a short 5-6 minute meditation. The group leader pulled the ideas submitted for each service into final drafts that were approved by the full group and sent to those who would be participating in each service. Songs, prayers, litanies, and Scripture suggestions were added. The group met for the first time via Skype to choose the themes for the five services, and then each contributed electronically through shared Google Docs to fill in the services. These worship services were planned by a team consisting of two pastors and two worship leaders in four different locations. Praises were spoken and sung, time was spent in confession and lament, affirmations of faith and testimony were given, Scripture was read and preached, and the prevailing prayer was for God’s will to be done. Multiple styles and genres of music and instruments are used in these services. But, more important, it allows space to listen to God as he speaks and moves among his people. The honest language of the psalms gives voice and expression to the thoughts and heart cries of worshipers. The themes of wisdom, confession and lament, hope and encouragement, praise and prayer, seemed fitting for this body that would be discussing and deliberating decisions that would have future impact on the ministry of the denomination. The overarching beauty and depth in the book of Psalms allowed us some continuity between services. The psalms were chosen as the unifying theme for the morning worship services for the 2015 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. The psalms not only allow us to say things to God and to each other, the psalms are God’s word to us.” (David Vroege, pastor of All Nations Christian Reformed Church in Halifax, NB) The psalms allow us to say and pray pretty much anything we need to.
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