Posted in Faith, tagged Christianity, faith, Matt Searle, Miriam Jones, music, Now and Not Yet, Psalms, songs, Vaughan Roberts on 2 November, 2012| 3 Comments »
I’ve just got myself a copy of this acoustic album of Psalms 16, 27, 28, 30, 34, 61, 116, 121, 126 and 130 by Matt Searles and sung by Miriam Jones. Wonderfully you can download the album for free this November.
Current fave song is Psalm 126 – a psalm for all in ministry. This is a psalm I know how to sing by heart in Anglican chant, thanks to a rather old fashioned music teacher at my secondary school – this version is waaaaay better.
[HT Ros]
Posted in Family, Fun, tagged Australia, Christian, Colin Buchanan, faith, Family, Fun, God Rock, Kids, music, songs, tour, UK on 17 April, 2012| 2 Comments »
On our return journey from Scotland, we were delighted to be able to make a pitstop in Leyland in Lancashire. Leyland is a smallish town with a lively church in the centre. And for one day only, timed perfectly for our return south, the maker of the soundtrack to our lives since children have joined us, Colin Buchanan, was playing a concert.
Colin has a new album out – God Rock – which we had already listened to for most of the journey. It was great to hear the new material – and some old favourites – live and presented with lots of laughs. He still has eight UK dates left to play so you might be able to catch him live yourself. Highly recommended for primary school aged kids. The Queen is in Year 6 and enjoyed herself immensely. On the clip below there are a few samples of songs from the new album. I really think Bear Grylls should hear the Survival Man song. We also have a lovely pic of the kids with Colin but we haven’t quite worked out how to transmit it from the Vicar’s new phone, so you may have to wait for that one.
Posted in Church, tagged Bible, By Faith, Christian, Church, faith, Hebrews, Keith Getty, Kristen Getty, Lent, music, song on 12 March, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Starting next Sunday for the rest of Lent (and a bit afterwards) the Vicar will be taking us through a few chapters of Hebrews in his sermons. So this, of course, will be our theme song to accompany the preaching. It’s also one we sang on my conference last week, so it’s sort of in my head anyway.
I’ll have to listen online next week as I’m in Junior Church for a second week. But I think we might try and sing along to this song in the Vicarage at teatime so those of us who’ll not be in the main body of the kirk during the sermon will have a little taste at what everyone else is up to.
Posted in Church, tagged Christ be in my Waking, Christian, faith, music, song, Stuart Townend, YouTube on 8 March, 2012| 2 Comments »
Back from deepest Leicestershire and feeling rather spacey after three nights in a strange bed with unfamiliar pillows. But on my home computer so able to share the lovely song and video from Stuart Townend that we saw at the Ministers’ Wives conference. It’s not called ‘This is my Devotion’ as I thought it might be but ‘Christ be in My Waking’. Which is what I want, even when I’m feeling rather out of it after being away.
Posted in Church, Fun, tagged Church, Fun, humour, music, musicians, Robots, YouTube on 5 March, 2012| 1 Comment »
A friend recently linked to this excellent video on Facebook and suggested it might be the solution in small churches where musicians are thin on the ground. We’ve been blessed recently by musicians playing in our services and replacing the cds and midi files, but one (Rocky, our Ministry Trainee) is leaving in the summer, so we’re praying for reinforcements. If you know any musicians, or even some helpful robots, do please send them our way…
Posted in Church, Faith, tagged confession, cracked cisterns, fount of living water, Jeremiah 2v12-13, Lent, music, reflection, Romans 1, Sam Chaplin, Two sins, You're My Every Breath on 24 February, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Lent is a good time for reflection and confession. Today I was reminded of this great song that helps me do just that. We learnt it on our summer Pathfinder venture and it’s on our to-be-introduced-at-church list. Alas, Sam Chaplin’s album doesn’t seem to be commercially available at the moment.
Two Sins
Two sins have we committed,
Two sins that we cannot deny,
We’ve turned from you, the fount of living water
And have tried to drink from cisterns cracked and dry
What fools we are, how blind we are!
Have mercy Lord, mercy on us. Forgive us Lord and help us see.
Change our hearts that we might live
For you O Lord, for you, O Lord, always
Two sins have we committed,
Two sins are plain before your eyes
We’ve walked away from the truth that brings us freedom
And have settled for those sweet enslaving lies
Two sins have we committed,
Two sins at which you stand appalled
We’ve turned from you, our glorious Creator
And have worshipped things that are no gods at all.
© Sam Chaplin, 1999.
Jeremiah 2v12-13, Romans 1.
Recorded on Sam Chaplin: You’re My Every Breath, 2001
Posted in Faith, tagged artist, Christian, Christianity, Church, conversion, faith, fatherlessness, gangs, God, hiphop, I am Second, IamSecond, Inner city, Jesus, Lecrae, music, rap, singer, testimony on 11 October, 2011| 1 Comment »
Just caught this great testimony on I am Second from the Christian rapper Lecrae – he’s a little easier to follow on this than on Chase That.
He reminds me of a good few of the young men we see around here in the parish. Our prayer is that some of them experience God’s transforming love in the way Lecrae has.
Posted in Fun, tagged Chase That, Christian, kinetic typography, Lecrae, music, rap, YouTube on 4 October, 2011| 9 Comments »
It’s been a bit stressy here in the Vicarage the past couple of weeks and I’ve struggled to get my head into gear to write a blog post. I miss it though, so I’m easing my way back in by skiving and posting this piece of kinetic typography. Lecrae is the Vicar’s new favourite Christian artist. Rap’s not so much my thing but I love this version – where I can keep up with the words.
Alas, most of the Lecrae kinetic typography I could find on YouTube had even more spelling errors and I couldn’t quite bring myself to post them.
Posted in Family, tagged Children, Christian, Church, faith, Family, free, Kids, music, Romans 6v23, Seeds Family Worship, sin, song, wages of sin on 6 July, 2011| 1 Comment »
We love the kids music produced by Seeds Family Worship in the US. At the moment you can download a free memory song from their website – Romans 6v23.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Posted in Faith, tagged Andrew Peterson, Christianity, Easter, faith, Hosanna, Jesus, music, Palm Sunday, resurrection, Resurrection Letters Vol II, YouTube on 15 April, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Andrew Peterson’s Christmas album, Behold the Lamb. This week I came across his Palm Sunday song ‘Hosanna’ from his 2008 album Resurrection Letters Vol II (Vol I is apparently still in the pipeline). Enjoy.
You have crushed beneath your heel the vile serpent.
You have carried to the grave the black stain.
You have torn apart the temple’s curtain.
You have beaten death at death’s own game.
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