Will You Just Shut Up and Listen?

Will You Just Shut Up and Listen?
Psalm 95

One of the most formative experiences of my life was being a chorister in the choir at the cathedral in my home city in England. I learned to sing and to read and write music, and I wouldn’t have become a music freak except for that experience. But more important, I got drawn into the actual worship of the services in which we sang, which doesn’t happen to every choirboy, and I wouldn’t have become an Anglican priest were it not for that experience. One of my memories is the way every Sunday morning service began with the Venite, which is the traditional title for Psalm 95. Venite is Latin for the opening bidding “Come.”...