by Julie Turner | Dec 20, 2014 | What's Happening
Most of you who read this regularly know that my favourite Christmas album is Michael Card’s ‘The Final Word’, which strictly speaking is not a ‘Christmas’ album at all, but a masterly exposition of the Incarnation of Christ....
by Julie Turner | Dec 19, 2014 | What's Happening
Rend Collective’s version of this traditional carol ‘Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee’ is delicate and reflective, reminding us that God is the giver of immortal gladness and that we can rejoice because He is with us. ‘Joyful, joyful, we adore...
by Julie Turner | Dec 19, 2014 | What's Happening
Hopefully this is not a weather forecast! Today’s song (delayed from yesterday, alas) looks at the fact that Christmas is the time when we remember specifically how God chose to come to us. We would have expected Christ to come in majesty, pomp and splendour,...
by Julie Turner | Dec 17, 2014 | What's Happening
Here’s a traditional carol with a modern take on it! ‘Good Christian men, rejoice, With heart and soul and voice Give ye heed to what we say Jesus Christ is born today. Ox and lamb before Him bow, He is in the manger now, Christ is born today. Christ is...
by Julie Turner | Dec 16, 2014 | What's Happening
Guidance is always a hot topic among Christians and it remains true that God guides us in a variety of ways, including speaking from His Word, arranging circumstances and using others to speak into our lives, as well as through the gifts of the Spirit. The wise men...
by Julie Turner | Dec 15, 2014 | What's Happening
‘Unto Us’ (lyrics taken from Is 9:6-7) is probably my favourite new Christmas song of this year. Taken from Aaron Shust’s Christmas album of the same name, the song captures the wonderfully lyrical piano music I love and has a truly epic feel to it...
