Okay, okay, so before you say anything, I am holding my hands up and apologising for the stupendous length of time that has elapsed since our last conversation… Theomusicologist!!!! Okay, I really want to know if there is a specific reason why you disappeared on our conversation – is there? What a good question…yes, there […]
Recently, I have had cause to reflect on the ways in which my work as a choral director continues to shape my understanding of matters that are nothing to do with music or music-making. I have recently had a dfficult-but-necessary choir meeting with one of my choirs at which it emerged that many people were […]
Last weekend, I led worship. I fasted and prayed beforehand. And as I did that, I became aware of all the things in me which did not qualify me to lead anyone or anything in corporate worship to a holy God. Note to anyone who thinks that fasting is a tool to buy currency and […]
There is a WikiHow article entitled, “How to Live a Long Life.” Here is no. 9 from that list: Write a gratitude list. When you write a gratitude list, you will feel much better about yourself and you won’t think about what you don’t have. When you focus on what you have now, you attract […]
I have always wondered why so many people who do not believe the gospel message sing sacred music of all descriptions so well and so meaningfully sometimes that one is very hard-pressed to believe that they don’t believe! WHY won’t more Christians sing like they actually believe? Do we sing what we do because we […]
I am still reflecting on the evening’s sermon that I heard earlier. Some incredible stories from a variety of evangelism ‘front-lines’ that really made one stop and think about what God is doing in the world. Earlier this week the Bible study group that I lead at one of our UK universities discussed doubt. In […]
I read these words in an email from a very good friend of mine several days ago, but I just returned to that email and realised that they totally needed more thought than I gave them the first time round: “I read yesterday about how God is strongest when we are weakest. Which made me […]
