by Warren Howell | Apr 21, 2021 | Music & Words, Prayers, Worship Resources
THE FOURTH SUNDAY of the Easter season every year features the 23rd Psalm prominently and is known as Good Shepherd Sunday. Thomas Merton prayed “You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles…You have found me. All I have to do is stay...
by Warren Howell | Nov 18, 2020 | Worship Resources
In addition to themes of Thanksgiving, this Sunday, November 22nd, is celebrated in many traditions as Christ the King or Reign of Christ Sunday, an observation that began relatively “recently” (1925) in Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches, but which has...
by Warren Howell | Jul 29, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Resources
WELCOMING ANGELS Pat Schneider Between the last war and the next one, waiting for the northbound train that travels by the river, I sit alone in the middle of the night and welcome angels. Welcome back old hymns, old songs, all the music, the rhyme and rhythm, welcome...
by Warren Howell | Jul 10, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Resources
The Sower and the Goooood Soil Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 “Happy is the one who thinks himself to be not better than the soil beneath his feet.” — Evagrios of Pontos (345-399) On the lakeshore, too many...
by Warren Howell | Apr 29, 2020 | Reflections, Worship Matters
“The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him...
