Mark Peterson announces the upcoming release of his latest album, The Name Of Love. We’ve enjoyed a Mark’s music and his tune for the hymn May The Mind Of Christ My Saviour is still a favourite. It’s available from the EMU Music webstore and probably all the other usual places. (Sadly no cheap download option, …
Very well produced fifteen minute video documentary on the composition of the words of the hymn Amazing Grace and pivotal events in the life of its writer John Newton. I’m sure there are still many, many folk who don’t know this story. Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Song from Gregory Bandy on Vimeo. ht
Last month I spent five Sundays teaching mgpc to sing the Gloria Patri as a doxology (short song of trinitarian praise/affirmation which we sing each week after we’ve stated the Apostles’ Creed or something similar). It was a bit of a struggle, but we got there. Here’s a short story which Nathan Bingham recounts involving …
Sometimes I worry that classic hymns don’t get enough love on Sunday Songs. For some reason when I put the service outline together for today I was mildly surprised that I didn’t have an existing PowerPoint for Praise My Soul The King Of Heaven. Surely we must have sung it sometime over the past few …
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