Long Ago Prophets Knew was featured on an Advent themed episode of Songs of Praise which I watched last night. I want to explore Advent themed songs for this week, at least. A relatively contemporary set of words authored by Fred Pratt Green, set to Gustav Holst’s arrangement of Personnet Hodie, the expectancy of the …
We’re not following Advent as a specific season at mgpc, but I have come to appreciate the benefit of balancing the ubiquitous and unavoidable exposure to sentimental expressions of the birth of Jesus to which Christians are exposed at this time of year with songs and material which ground Jesus first coming in redemptive history, …
December means Christmas music, and my favourite Christmas themed concept recording is Andrew Petersen’s album Behold The Lamb Of God. Follow this link to an online player where you can listen to the whole original album for free. Here’s my 2009 post about Behold The Lamb Of God. Different releases of the album can be …
Interesting thoughts. ‘And I think now it’s easier to write worship songs which are basically like teenage love songs. And there’s a lot of worship songs which are basically about me and Jesus falling in love. And, you know, that’s fine, but as I’ve often said to teenagers, the point of falling in love is …
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