Here’s a great song for Easter Sunday which you probably don’t know. I featured Zac Hicks’ recording of it at the end of last year, but it’s a great Easter song. The Word Of Life (In A Byre Near Bethlehem) by John Bell, sung to an arrangement of the folk tune Wild Irish Time rollicks …
Leigh Nash’s recent album Hymns And Sacred Songs is worth a listen. Here’s her rendition of the Getty/Townend composition O To See The Dawn (The Power Of The Cross), which has a slight melodic rearrangement which I quite like. Anyway, if this isn’t a part of your Easter weekend worship song-list somewhere or other you’re …
Earlier this week I linked to Rise O Buried Lord, an Easter themed album of rearranged and retuned hymns. The album closes with Christian Gellert’s Jesus Lives, And So Shall I set to an arrangement of the tune Wild Mountain Time. You may recall this same folk tune featured in the Christmas Songs post for …
Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (now generically labelled Pancake Tuesday). Which leads us into the season some Christians observe as Lent. Look it up somewhere to find the details. The evangelical wing of the Church (us) seems to be developing a growing fascination with practices which our forefathers (and foremothers) had the good sense to realise …
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