Grace Church Nottingham

At a recent worship leaders gathering I was at a number of people mentioned wanting to grow in their bands ability to 'self-arrange'. Bob Kauflin from Sovereign Grace has done some of the best teaching I've heard on this subject. Why not get break out the chips & dips and get your team together to watch this? If you prefer you can download the audio mp3 along with every other seminar from the WorshipG… Continue

Son of God, God the Son, Eternal Uncreated One You became what you were not When you became a man. Purest light, no stain of sin, Glory cloaked in human skin Flesh & bone your offering, You lived & died a man. And so all we long to do Is grow more in love with you Jesus Christ, with all our hearts We worship you To you be the loudest praise Your name far above all names Jesus Christ, Risen One Son of God, God the Son We worship you. Emmanuel you dwell with us, A diamond in th… Continue

The phrase "Son of God and God the Son" leapt out listening to a sermon on John ch.1 by one our elders. I felt it was a great way to sum up the mystery of the incarnation, which C.S. Lewis called "the grand miracle". The verses flowed easily, but the chorus took a long time. Eventually I settled on this - This is the miracle of God made flesh - The life that bridged the great divide. This is the miracle of God made flesh - The blameless cursed & crucified. This is the miracle, The miracle o… Continue

This song took 10 years to write from 1st inspiration to completion. It started with the idea that Jesus calling his servants friends in John 15:15 is in part an example of God being "able to do far more abundantly than we ask or think" (Eph. 3:20). I started to write a tune and more lyrics, filling out that thought with other examples but ended up shelving it. I finally picked it up again 7 years later, finishing the song on a piano whilst on holiday, in a house that poet Walter De La Mare had… Continue

The Eglon Song I was reading the ESV translation of the Bible in the garden one day when I came to Judges 3 and laughed at the explicitness of their translation of King Eglon's demise. When my children asked me why I was laughing at the Bible I told them the story. Wide-eyed they asked me if that “was really in the Bible!” As we talked about it, I started singing the refrain to a “here we go around the mulberry bush” type tune and improvising verses. And that would have be… Continue

More than I could say You have called me your friend when I was happy to be your servant forever, Set a crown on my head when all I wanted to be was loosed from my chains. You have made me your child when all I wanted to do was follow your Son. You poured out your love when it was enough that you held back your anger. More than I could say, more than I could ask More than I could dream, everything you made me More than I could hope, more than I could know More than I could… Continue

The Eglon Song Back in the day when the Bible was thin Israel was conquered by a heavyweight King So they prayed for a saviour who was able to fight Big-bellied Eglon the Moabite. Well, Ehud was the man God chose He made a little sword & hid it in his clothes Said “King I got a message to whisper to you” Then in went the sword & out came the poo because he… Stabbed him in the belly & his poo came out Stabbed him in the belly & his poo came out Stabbed him in the be… Continue

Song Of The Redeemed There is a song that even the angels cannot sing One that belongs to those who were once the slaves of sin A song of those who fought the light Who chose the chains that bound them tight Each one an enemy adopted as your child. Jesus we sing to you the song of the redeemed We are the ones that you bought back from our slavery. From the depth of our sin to the height of your throne How great is the range of your salvation song Jesus we sing to you the s… Continue

The initial inspiration came from Revelation 14:3. Though in the context it's a reference to martyrs I was thinking about the fact that though the angels that worship God are sinless and can see God face to face (not to mention having better singing voices! ), they cannot sing from experience what it is to be saved. I jotted down some notes down only to later discover four lines I'd written on the same theme a few years before. I've sometimes found that I have the same idea over & over again… Continue