Emphasis Preaching Journal

I learned a lesson about humility early in my ministry as a church organist. I had been asked not to play the state trumpet at this one church because the senior pastor did not like it used. It was the loudest stop in the organ. Like any college student who thought, "I'll show you who's the boss," I used that state trumpet the first Sunday of my playing there as a fill-in for the month of August. Dr. Carter was quite upset with me following worship. I laughed at him and said, "You're the pastor and I'm the organist.