Rev. Dr. Rolf Bouma is an ordained pastor in the Christian Reformed Church who teaches religion, ethics, and ecology in the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan.
Last Updated: September 10, 2025
God Gathers Us for Worship Opening is structured as congregation is accustomed. God Embraces Us in Grace Drama: The Wayward, Wanton, and Wasteful Daughter (Modified—see box, pp. 24-25.) Hymn: Sung to the tune of MORNING SONG, PsH 615, PH 60O, RL 48O, TWL 277 [Sing stanzas 1 and 2.]
These four services celebrating God's creation have been designed to fit into the liturgical calendar on the Sundays between Ascension Day and the first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The services would be equally appropriate as a freestanding series on creation sometime during the summer months.
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