Something Australian this week. Not that that makes it any better (or worse). Consider Christ was written by Bryson Smith, pastor of Dubbo Presbyterian with music by Philip Percival, now executive director of EMU Music. Originally released under a label called Plainsong, the is now published by EMU. It appears on the albums Consider Christ, …
This morning we sang ‘Here Is Love’. Originally the hymn lyrics were written by William Rees. The version we use is the one which has had a new musical arrangment and extra lyrics by Steve and Vikki Cook added to the original words. As far as I can tell the new arrangement is pretty minor …
Back to the Keith and Kristyn Getty catalogue today. You’ll be reading a bit about them here over time because their tunes are singable and their words explore a more biblically complete picture of the Christian’s life than a lot of other contemporary composers. Higher Throne is a good example of this breadth. If a …
Back when I was Pastor of the Mordialloc Presbyterian Church, part of our worship each week was to sing three hymns chosen by the Congregation. Our organist was a lovely Christian lady named Gwen who could play most of the hymns in our hymn book on sight, and I knew how to sing most of …
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