The Sower
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
Fine Arts Center
Calvin Symposium on Worship 2009
Organ Prelude
"God's Holy Ways Are Just and True"
Alec Rowley
Prayer
"Speak, O Lord"
Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
© 2005 Kingsway’s Thankyou Music, admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing. Used by permission. CCLI # 400063
Opening
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
And also with you.
Our help is the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth. ...
Songs of Praise and Sung Prayers of Illumination
"Open the Eyes of My Heart"
Text and music: Paul Baloche
© 1997 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music, admin. Integrity Music. Used by permission. CCLI # 400063
"We Are Waiting"
Text and music: Greg Scheer
© 1997 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-703303
Psalm 111 "God's Holy Ways Are Just and True"
Text: Psalm 111; para. Barbara Woollett (b. 1937), c. 1984
Music: tune Lasst uns erfreuen, Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623
Text © 1990 Hope Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-703303
Scripture
Recitation: Psalm 119:9-18
"I Will Hide Your Word Inside My Heart," v.1
Text and music: based on Psalm 119:11; Paul Field
Arr.: Greg Scheer
Text and music © 2003 Daybreak Music, admin. Integrity Music. Used by permission. CCLI # 400063
Arr. © 2008, Faith Alive Christian Resources. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-703303.
Recitation: Mark 4:1-11
"I Will Hide Your Word Inside My Heart," v.2
Sermon
"Careless Grace"
Craig Barnes
Prayers of Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession
Prayers of thanksgiving for the word we've just heard, for our hearts to be good soil,
and for the faith to live by God's words...
"Jesus Christ, Our Living Lord," v.1
From Hungary
Text: after E. Turmezei, tr. by E. Abraham and John L. Bell
Music: Szokolay Sandor (b. 1931), arr. Geoff Weaver
Text © 1979 Erzsebet Turmezei
Music © 1981 Szokolay Sandor
Confession for our hardness of heart, for the times we haven't lived up to
God's love, and lived in God's joy...
"Jesus Christ, Our Living Lord," v.2
Prayer that God would give all his children bread, but not bread alone.
Prayer that the seeds growing in our home churches and communities
would grow into a rich harvest...
"Jesus Christ, Our Living Lord," v.3
Prayer for the symposium, that what we learn today would empower us
to follow wherever God may lead us in the future...
"Jesus Christ, Our Living Lord," v.4
Lord's Prayer
Assurance and Charge
Closing Hymn
"On What Has Now Been Sown"
Text: John Newton (1725-1807), 1779, alt.
Music: tune Darwall's 148th, John Darwall (1731-1789), 1770
Sung Blessing and Passing of the Peace
Sung by staff members of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
"Peace I give to you"
Larry Visser
Text: based on John 14:27
GIA G-6850
Craig Barnes, preaching
Debra Rienstra and Ron Rienstra, liturgists and prayer leaders
Dennis Dewey, scripture proclamation
Greg Scheer, music team leader and guitar
Norma de Waal Malefyt, organ
Micah VanderHill, piano
Robert Keeley, guitar
Ken Bekendam, bass
Minwoo Heo, drums and percussion
Paul Ryan and Tracie VerMerris, vocals