Encouragement for Writers
Encouragement for writers from Psalm 1. How can delighting in the Lord help us to prosper and yield fruit in our writing?
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Songs
Despair Turns into Hope
Thoughts from the Song, Redeemer of Life, in The Wanderer Reborn. I sang of despair, eyes flowing without ceasing; Yahweh from heaven looked down and saw. I called on His name from the depths of the pit; He heard my plea and took up my cause. Redeemer of life, all-sufficient one, Help me grasp the
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Adam’s Song
Adam’s Song is a song featured in The Wanderer Scorned book that imagines Adam’s journey from the Garden of Eden, through the fall and blame game with Eve, to the point of confession and blessing soon after the birth of Abel.
Glorious Trinity
Meditation on Ephesians 1:4-12 Glorious Trinity was my first attempt at writing something that could be sung in church, designed primarily to communicate truth rather than get all our emotional juices flowing. The structure is basic, it utilises only 3 chords (which was about as many as I could play when I sat down with
The Potter – Making things beautiful
The Potter Making things beautiful A friend of mine was going through a difficult circumstance: a betrayal, a shattering of the security she’d built her life upon. Perhaps you’ve been there yourself? Maybe you have experienced abandonment or divorce, the loss of a loved one, an affair, or deception? When I was praying for my
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Plan for the World Part 2
Why does God allow evil, and what is he going to do about it?
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Plan for the world Part 1
Does God have a plan? Sometimes it’s hard, so hard to believe. Things seemed much easier when they weren’t meant to be. You know that old adage, ‘Everything happens for a reason?’ You know what it feels like when some well-meaning person says, ‘everything happens for a reason’ right after the most awful thing you’ve
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