Burning in my soul

It’s been a good year for CDs for me this year so far! I am finding that songs written in all kinds of places at all different times are echoing what God is doing in me: stirring, causing faith to rise, stoking a burning in my soul.I received the latest Passion...

Who we are

The GCSE art students at school were discussing their work yesterday and I discovered that their first ‘theme’ had been ‘Identity’. They had to come up with original artwork on that theme, looking at the question of identity from whatever...

Wonder

I read a quote today; sadly, I can’t find out who first said this, but I agree with the sentiment: “When wonder is dead, the soul becomes a dry bone.” Since dry bones have been featuring so much in the blog posts this month, that quote caught my...

A wilderness psalm

Last night we looked at Psalm 57, one of the psalms written by David when he was in a cave, fleeing from Saul. The historical background to the psalm is found in 1 Samuel 17-24: how David was anointed king by Samuel, found favour with Saul through his musical skills...