by Warren Howell | Feb 7, 2021 | Reflections, Worship Matters
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE those of us who are planners of worship are reminded of how much our care and attention to detail is predicated upon the mistaken presumption that all systems will be normal. But I think God gets bored with normal. In her essay An Expedition to...
by Warren Howell | Oct 2, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Matters
In her 1942 book, How to Cook a Wolf, food writer MFK Fisher addressed humanity, hunger, and prayer in a chapter called “How to Pray For Peace.” As those were wartime years, American homes were making sacrifices, and thus, she offered a few thoughts on the humble and...
by Warren Howell | Sep 8, 2020 | Worship Matters, Worship Resources
Question: When the time comes that we get through this pandemic and can safely resume the beauty of choral music in church, what anthems would you consider for your choir on its first Sunday back in worship? I heard this first posed by Eric Nelson this...
by Warren Howell | Jun 5, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Matters
This weekend features the first Sunday after Pentecost which is officially known as Trinity Sunday. Unlike other festival days in Christian worship tradition, Trinity Sunday isn’t commemorative of an event (as are Christmas or Easter, say, or Reformation Sunday), but...
by Warren Howell | May 22, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Matters
My life flows on in endless song; above earth’s lamentation, I hear the sweet, though far off hymn that hails a new creation. No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that Rock I’m clinging. Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing?...
by Warren Howell | May 7, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Matters
“Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:6) And what better way to praise than to sing? Choirs do it. Birds do it, babies do it, my dog does it. Even the trees do it. But it turns out, singing together is a little more...
