We’ve walked past the bookstand, past the cafe with its smell of hot chocolate and sticky buns, and are heading for ’T’shirts, when my arm is grabbed. Arrested in my progress, I swing round to find that I’m being embraced with greater affection than normal by my eleven year old son. I’m quite familiar... Continue Reading →
Kevin and I spend a lot of time visiting churches to sing and play our music. We rarely get to visit the big thriving churches you hear about. . The churches that God has sent us out to speak to, are the ones that probably don’t feel they can afford for musicians to travel and spend time with them. they’re tired, often dispirited, and wondering where their congregations have gone. They sometimes have no incumbent minister, because they can't afford it; so someone coming in to do three songs and three stories in the sermon slot, or to sing after the service is over, can provide welcome refreshment and encouragement.
I have strong memories of my first few weeks of secondary school in Dorset. It was a girls' grammar school, my uniform was, for the moment, smart and new, and I still had a fresh faced optimism for such things as lesson timetables, back-breakingly heavy book bags and homework. How young I was. We had... Continue Reading →
Sometimes, running a big group of musicians, sorting out rehearsals, bookings, transport, loading, unloading and setting up of equipment, arrangement of new material, promotion and all the rest of it, can feel remarkably like high stakes plate juggling. Musicians quickly learn that they need to take their responsibilities, as members of a performing group that... Continue Reading →
I've previously commented on the stupidity of chickens. But I think that pheasants might be worse. Quite beautiful, I love to see the cock pheasants in all their finery at this time of year, not withstanding the fact that they can become a bit grumpy... But I do have to observe that the morning school run... Continue Reading →
I have, in the past, been guilty of buying presents for people with the sole intention of amusing them. I now realise that the laughter will only have lasted for a few moments, whereas the need for dusting, and ultimately the irritation, will have been ongoing. So, first of all, an apology. After writing this,... Continue Reading →
The thoughts behind the song 'Two Step' in our new album 'Love can be a Bumpy Road'. It’s time I made a confession to you all: Everyone else seems to be so much more spiritual than I am... So many people I know are able to come up with the right Bible verse for every... Continue Reading →
God is at work. Miracles are happening. I now have no doubt of God's love; His ability and desire to heal - and I know that I should be stepping up to the line to take my part. So why do I feel that my prayers have all the authority of a dead mackerel? I,... Continue Reading →
Well, first of all - you don’t, and nor will you ever. If you are rash enough to share your house with a cat, then he or she owns YOU. Looking out of the window I see winter. The wind is blowing, rain is falling in that horizontal fashion that rain does when wind blows, and... Continue Reading →
If you have ever either leapt to conclusions over the validity of alternative health care, or, perhaps, wondered how comfortably it fits with Christianity, then you might want to read on... I’ll come clean with you at the outset. I am a keen advocate of many forms of alternative therapy. But before you click ’close’... Continue Reading →
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