Please, do come in. We’ve been expecting you.
The first time I played “The Earth is the Lord’s” was in St Luke’s church, Brislington, probably around 1990, with the worship band, New Dimensions. It was during a special
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Tag: Psalms
I wandered lonely across Westminster Bridge
A thoroughly poetic psalm, one that could not be written today anymore than then as an exact description of how things come to be, nor of our own place within
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Psalm 80
So many Psalms. Some most excellent, some violent and repudiatory. Some dutiful hymns to God. Some with vengeance, some in fear and shame. Some in joy and hope, some just
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Truth deep within me
Psalm 51, a wonderful, sensitive, serious, challenging and uplifting psalm. One that questions who we are , why we do what we do, and how God digs deep with us.
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The Parable of the Runner Beans
This summer, we planted some runner bean plants, using the time-honoured structure of tying bamboo canes into a ridge-tent shape. We planted them in the garden, not knowing especially which
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Give me strength
Psalm 25:1-10 How can I trust in something I cannot see? I have been asked this. Can’t recall by whom, but it was, I do recall, a ‘whom’ who was
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