A Graceful Sound
A message by Scott R. Cooper
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Prineville, Oregon
August 22, 2010 (13th Sunday after Pentecost)
Much to the consternation of the Worship Committee and Sally, I like to choose my own hymns on Sunday mornings when I am leading worship.
It’s not that there is anything inferior or wrong with the choices that others make. I like to do my own thing just because I generally have a message in mind and I want everything in the service to support that message. So I choose hymns as well as collects and prayers that are intended to support the central themes that I intend to emphasize as the morning’s readings and the morning’s message unfold.
Now honestly, I don’t know whether this really works or not. After all, music impacts people differently.
Music is very important to me.
