The fact that God sometimes seem silent should not be confused with a God who is inactive. God does not stop, he is, as Jesus says, ‘at his work’ our faith life should not be led by our day to …
Returning to the Promises of God you can perhaps remember the old poem of ‘the Footprints’ in the sand is a reflection on this passage. God tells his people they are not left to wander. That unlike the gods of …
Psalm 139 is a song about being known and being unable to flee. Obvious parallels lie with Jonah, with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 or Elijah in 1 Kings 19 all three run away of hide but are not …
We often sing on a Sunday but here the Psalmist is in worship in anticipation of the gathering of God’s people at the temple. How do you worship before you come to worship ad how do you prepare for worship …
Worship in repentance may seem on one level an odd song to sing. Few songs in the modern church are a request for mercy from God, but worship is an important part of our return to God and honesty in …
The line I waited patiently for the Lord is not quite accurate as the original Hebrew says I waited and waited for the Lord. Sometimes our worship can be affected by our longing for God to act, we can become …
Perhaps the most famous of the Psalms it is the song of a shepherd to the great shepherd and a song about the nature of God’s heart towards those who follow him. Parallels can be drawn here between Psalm 23 …
The week we begin a new series called – Singing through the Summer’ Psalm 1 is a song to the soul of the community of believers to press on into God to find ourselves rooted and established in him. Worship …
One of the great difficulties many Christians have in dealing with their Father in Heaven is the concept of Father brought from the natural relationship we may have with our father on earth. Whether a father was abusive, sarcastic, disinterested …
