Not only those who stand at the top of a pulpit preach in church services, music also plays its part in sermons—or in this case even dance. In a way, church congregants also participate.

The church service is centred around the composition «Omnia tempus habent» by Daniel Glaus. The topic originates from
the Book of Sermons. It doesn’t speak of the time available to people, but rather to a future given time. Thus, as the composer
says, «Everybody has his time, and all collective biographies constitute world history. We have our journey in the world and leave traces here and there, imprinted into the surface of the present.» He interprets these traces musically and symbolically through solo instruments (oboe, voice, dancer, preacher) alternating in the foreground, while in the background, the vocal ensemble produces time atmosphere with slow sounds.

Thus the entire composition becomes a sermon in which various voices and people express the diversity of time experience, preaching in their own way. That’s why the oboe unfolds her «best note», the «h», sounds to correspond with the human voice. Even the preacher has «his time», to question, to interpret, to stimulate reflection. And the dancer adds to this with movements, gestures and jumps.

Through this, the composer also wants to give each and every person in the congregation their own time, in the best sense of the Reformation, to make a sermon. That is why there are three pauses, i.e. quiet moments («standing») (5, 45 and 48 seconds) allowing each heard and experienced element to take effect independently.