Creativity
Hallelujah!
Try and picture the scene: you are seated in the auditorium of the Royal Albert Hall on Good Friday for the performance of Handel’s Messiah….
The Lion and the Lamb
In the jungle there lived a very proud lion. He had lived many seasons and knew that he was big, strong and powerful. All the…
Happy New Year!
For the new year I wanted to bring you a message about hope for our future, but could find no better words than these from…
Rubber Ducks
Today we celebrated New Year’s Eve and the joint East End service at St. Mark’s Church, but we also celebrated my father’s birthday. Late in…
A community born of God
In the wake of jailed Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo winning the nobel peace prize, I remember listening to the radio where the presenter was talking…
Mushy Peas
Social media is alive with discussions on a hot subject that is currently dividing the church — mushy peas. The Church is split broadly into…
The Orange
As children my brother Matthew and I would place stockings on the ends of our beds each Christmas Eve and would be excited to unwrap…
My life in a song
May the Holy Spirit breathe on us all and give us the direction we need in life. God bless A
Coming into God’s presence
To come into the presence of God — and one can do this anywhere at any time — is both terrifying and heartening. It begins…
Candy Canes
In 1670, a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany was fed up with the noises from the children during services. During their big Christmas…
Windows and washing
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The first morning they were sitting together eating breakfast when the young woman saw her neighbour hanging…
Shimmer
My latest music composition is an expression of worship called Shimmer. Back in the early 1990s I bought a rack-mount synthesiser called the Roland JD-990….