Musical collective Cardiphonia have released Ascension Songs, a new compilation of songs for the church season known as ‘Ascension’. Like previous collections Songs For The Supper and Pentecost Songs this collection features a variety of ‘retuned’ older wordsets and modern hymns presented with contemporary musicianship of high standard. It serves as a resource of songs …

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Conan O’Brien is a television tonight show host. He’s had an up, down, and up again time of it lately, to say the least. Google search it if you want to know the details. Anyway, his down time has caused him to reflect on a certain piece of popularly espoused wisdom in a slightly more …

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Eric McKiddie, on his blog, Pastoralised, provides these forty helpful observations about preaching which he’s gleaned from composing 400 sermons. I’m simply impressed that he knows how many sermons he’s preached. I’ve got no idea how many I’ve produced. Not all of these pertain to my personal pattern of preparation and delivery, but awareness of …

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I’ve made reference to Scotty Smith’s prayer blog before. Last weekend Smith preached for the final time as pastor of the Church he has served since its foundation twenty-six years ago. Here’s his prayer for that occasion: A Prayer About the Final Word In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at …

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