Props: Instead of the whale song suggested, you can use as your opening image a dandelion (aka “lion’s teeth” in spore stage), a horn (trumpet or actual shofar–which you can find on amazon for about $30), or a balloon (and some helium if you dare). You may also want to scroll some Hubbel space photos on the screen along with some cosmic music if you begin your sermon with “creation.”

We are not the only creatures that sing. Has anyone heard the voice of an Orca whale? It sounds a lot like an erratic trumpet, with clicks, whistles, bright blasts. In fact, whales don’t use their mouths to sing. They blow their sounds through a fleshy part of their head called the blowhole, in which they have something akin to our nasal passages. For us, it would be like humming through our noses or blowing …