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 15, 2020 | Reflections
I encountered this honest and worshipful and HOPEFUL modern psalm piece yesterday when it was shared by the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. Its writer, Larry Gray, is the president of Baptist Health Louisville, and Board of Trustees, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. ...
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...
by Warren Howell | Apr 24, 2020 | Music & Words, Worship Resources
Ambrose, a fourth-century bishop of Milan, said a psalm is a blessing on the lips of the people, and added: It is the voice of complete assent, the joy of freedom, a cry of happiness, the echo of gladness. It soothes the temper, distracts from care, lightens the...
by Warren Howell | Apr 14, 2020 | Reflections
“Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.” (John 20:1) In John’s telling, the mystery of Easter began in the early morning darkness of the garden, where...
