Reformation Day services are often festive, rightly celebrating the recovery of central Christian truths in the Protestant Reformation: the great “solas”—by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Another great recovery in the time of the Reformation was that of congregational singing and particularly of psalm-singing. It was psalm-singing that became part of the focus of the 2012 Reformation Day service of several Christian Reformed churches in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Resources by Karen DeMol
Sing Genevan Psalms of Joy
February 22, 2012
A service in which every congregational song is a Genevan psalm? In this day of blended services, of drawing on song resources in many styles and from the global community? That is exactly what First Christian Reformed Church did on Reformation Day in 2010.
We Gather to Worship
Prelude: "Jesus Shall Reign"
[Callahan]
Introit: "Lift Up Your Heads"
[from Messiah, Handel]
The Greeting
Worshiping with Instruments: Music for Lent and Easter
December 1, 1987
We are fond of quoting Psalm 150. All those instruments —trumpet, harp and lyre, flute and strings, even tambourine and cymbals—paint a sound-picture of orchestral dimensions in Old Testament worship.
