Great evening service at Highfield Church recently: powerful worship time, encouraging talk from Mike, and hot chocolate and fellowship to round things off. There was gifted leadership in prayer, in worship, and in the word, but the thing that grabbed my attention was anything but attention-grabbing: it was musical humility.… Continue Reading Musical Humility
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Reading through the books of Leviticus and Numbers, as I am at the moment, can seem like hard going at times. Long descriptions of laws, sacrifices and festivals can be tough to get my head around. It’s not hard to relate Passover celebrations to the Easter story, or the Feast… Continue Reading The First and The Best
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Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, and with all kinds of skills.’ Exodus 31: 1 – 3… Continue Reading The Five Fold Filling of Bezalel
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Exodus 24:12 contains this wonderful invitation, direct from the Lord God Himself. He calls Moses to come up and meet with Him on Mount Sinai. I guess we all to some extent long for mountaintop experiences. We long to get away from the press and the burdens of our daily… Continue Reading Come Up to Me on the Mountain
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With the launch over and the book now published, it can feel like there is nothing happening sometimes. And as an author you wonder whether the book is having any impact, is it helping anyone, is it being the blessing I hope for? So it was wonderfully encouraging on Sunday… Continue Reading Seven Author Encouragements
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Today is the official publication day for Worship Leading Essentials. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to do a quick post on the story so far. In other words how the book went from a collection of ideas that I had to an actual physical papery thing… Continue Reading The Book – from Vision to Reality
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Stuck in the house this week (yes, Covid has finally caught up with me; thankfully it seems mild so far), I’ve been so blessed by this new song from Brooke Ligertwood. I know the Hillsong big arena productions are not to everyone’s taste, but this song is pure worship. Lyrics… Continue Reading A Thousand Hallelujahs
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Sure, I like to think that I do. I make efforts to ensure I read the Bible every day if at all possible. I appreciate the way God’s word helps me to focus on Him, helps me experience His presence. I love the way the Holy Spirit can take words… Continue Reading Do I Really Love the Word of God?
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I would like to pray God’s richest blessings on you in this new year. My new year has been accompanied by Genesis 1-5 and Psalms 1-5, and I’ve been struck by several aspects of worship revealed in these chapters, particularly in the first five psalms. Starting in Psalm 1, worship… Continue Reading Worship in the First Five Psalms
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I love coming to the end of the Bible. In my case today it follows a two-year reading plan, two chapters per day, with the psalms read twice through alongside 300 other chapters. A new reading model for me, and one that I enjoyed enormously (more info below this post,… Continue Reading Ultimate Worship – Revelation 22
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