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Psalm 42 and 43 - A Psalm of Lament
Evening Worship, January 27/28, 2005, 8 p.m., Calvin College Chapel
Calvin Symposium on Worship

The service is led without any printed order of service, but we provide this outline as a resource for seeing the structure of the service and for identifying music and other resources used throughout. For similar service outlines, see Ron Rienstra, Ten Service Plans for Contemporary Worship (Faith Alive). For information about this service, contact Paul Ryan, Calvin College Chapel (psr2@calvin.edu).

Link to cover art by Eric Nykamp

Prelude 

 

   

The Lord Be with You
Ron Rienstra

 

 

Welcome

 

   

  Orientation
   

Call to Worship

Psalm 98:1-3

   

Celebration

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Psalter Hymnal 253
     
  Forever
Chris Tomlin
     
Adoration Psalm 145:13-16  
     
  Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Psalter Hymnal 556
     
  Prayer  
     

Disorientation

   

Lamentation

 

"40" (U2 song sung with images and words of lament displayed from around the world)

Prayer

God of life, God of comfort:
alone,
afraid,
in fear,
in loss,
we cry out:
"Why, O Lord, why?"
"How long, O Lord, how long?"
We cling to you in hope
even as we grasp for hope.
So grasp us in your loving embrace
through Jesus Christ,
who endured the cross for our sake. Amen.

Reprinted by permission from The Worship Sourcebook, © 2004, CRC Publications
     

Proclamation

Scripture reading: Psalm 42 and 43 (read responsively with refrain Hear Our Prayer)

Tanya Riches

   
  Sermon: A Means of Escape
   

Intercession

"Be Near" (Shane and Shane song sung & danced)

choreographed by Eunbee Ham

Reorientation

   

Thanksgiving 

Psalm 116: I Love the Lord 

Sing! A New Creation 227
     
  I Worship You, O Lord
Psalter Hymnal 30
     
  In Christ Alone
Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
     

Celebration 

Psalm 18:1-3
   
  I Will Call Upon the Lord
Michael O'Shields
   

Blessing

 
   

Benediction

My Friends, May You Grow in Grace
Sing! A New Creation 288

 

 

Postlude

 

"[In the Psalms], the prayers for help, the songs of praise for help, and the songs of trust reflect a movement from helplessness through salvation to gratitude and to the life of trust based on the experience of salvation. . . The movement is the basic pattern of the Christian's relation to God through Christ."

~ James Luther Mays, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms
(Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994), 42.

The language of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation is drawn from the work of Walter
Brueggemann, in The Psalms and the Life of Faith, ed. Patrick D. Miller (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1995), and The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984).