Preparing for Worship - Jeff Brummel, associate minister of music/organist. In brainstorming for today’s Preparing for Worship article, one thought kept recurring to me. Legacy. As I sat and studied the order of worship, I noticed certain moments on the page that...
Preparing for Worship - LeAnn Hampton. How ironic that in this environment when we are asked to be socially distant, we are participating in World Communion Sunday, an event first celebrated by the Presbyterian church in 1933. Communion itself implies closeness and...
Preparing for Worship - Heather Mustain, associate pastor. This past Sunday evening, I tuned into Nevertheless She Preached, a multi-day preaching conference celebrating the voices of women in the pulpit — a conference Wilshire proudly supports. I made it just in...
Preparing for Worship - Leanna Coyle-Carr, pastoral resident. We sit in houses today that may not feel like home. Things like global pandemics and national tensions have a way of making even the safest places feel uncomfortable. Home is where we live and breathe and...
Preparing for Worship - Doug Haney, associate pastor. Eric Routley was a British hymnologist and hymn writer who wrote, “Hymns are the folk songs of the people of God.” Hymns are those heart-songs that are passed from generation to generation. It doesn’t take much...
Preparing for Worship - Leigh Curl, pastoral resident. When was the last time you got lost? Not lost in the sense of losing your way or the feeling of dread when you don’t know where you are or what you are doing, but when was the last time you lost yourself in...
Preparing for Worship - August 30 - Darren DeMent, associate pastor. This Sunday morning in worship, we are singing one of my favorite hymns, “Be Thou My Vision.” Now I realize that saying “Be Thou My Vision” is one of my favorite hymns is akin to saying “I like...
Preparing for Worship - August 23 - Ashley Robinson, pastoral resident. I joked recently that trying to settle into a new home after a move feels like I overpacked for a prolonged vacation. Box by unpacked box, though, I am beginning to feel more grounded. The...
By Jenna Sullivan, pastoral resident. Being new to the Wilshire family, I am also new to the regular ritual of preparing for worship. Before COVID days, I suppose printing off a last-minute edit to my sermon and grabbing a donut was the extent of my contemplative...
Preparing for Worship - Mary Kay Jackman, Wilshire member.In my home office hangs a framed copy of Proverbs 3:5. You probably know it by heart, but in case you don’t, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” A colleague in the...