Fearfully and wonderfully mad
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze There's a little game I used to play with friends online. Take a song lyric and use Google Translate to translate it through different languages, say from English to French to German to Spanish and back to English. Here's one I did from English …
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The extravagant love of God Greenhead Park, Huddersfield, Sunday 7th July 2019 HOPE Huddersfield A change from the usual this week. Instead of worshipping in Holy Trinity Church in Huddersfield we joined together with people from other churches to praise God together and have a picnic as part of Hope Huddersfield in Greenhead Park. Not …
Praise comes first The Lord's Prayer — Part 6 Watching a beautiful sunset it is easy to be full of praise, especially if you are in the Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, listening to the chill out electronica and sipping a very expensive cocktail. This should be on everyone's bucket list. I have done that, and …
Yesterday at Church we sang We are marching in the light of God. Happily for me, I'm a percussionist, the singing was good. The syncopation was good too, much better than it was a few years back. Looking around after the service I noticed the number of people in the church who use sticks and …
Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise; In the last blog I spoke about imitation, the idea of imitating me in the same way that I imitate Christ. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the field of music in church. A few pointers. No instrument is easier to …
Psalms The songs that you find in the middle of the Bible are a bit of a mixed bag. Which is probably why we use the word psalm, from the Greek meaning song, rather than the Hebrew title Tehillim, which means praises. I mean, how can this be praise? O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, …
