Psalm 81 — Psalms of Asaph This is a prophetic song. The purpose of God's prophets was not to foretell the future, their job was to say what God is saying now to his people, the importance of the covenant relationship, God subduing aggressive neighbouring countries is part of the blessings of relationship in the …
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Arrival – Psalm 134
The end of the road We are there. We have got to the end of the psalms of ascents. The pilgrims on their journey to Jerusalem have been singing these songs on the way, now they are at their destination, Jerusalem. This may be the last of the psalms of ascents, but it is not …
Unfailing love – Psalm 130
Full redemption Redemption in the modern world means going to the pawnbroker's with some money and getting your things that you pawned back. With God it means exactly the same. This is God's world, and God is buying it back. Psalm 130 A song of ascents. 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;2 Lord, hear …
Waiting — Psalm 123
Watching and waiting Psalm 123 A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.2 As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us …
Psalm 122 — Starting the road with praise
We are going to worship God — Woohoo! Children may be more interested in Jesus than you think. A blog by Deconstructing Church talks about children finding church and Sunday school boring yet in another context are asking questions. My experience is that many people without recent experience of the church believe that church is …
Symbols of the Holy Spirit 2: Breath or a gentle breeze
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
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
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 …
Limping
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 …
…and in the depth
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 …
