With a Song in my Heart – Day 18
Children want to worship God as much as adults do. We hinder their growth in faith when they are given only ‘grown-up’ hymns to sing or are fed on a diety of over simple ‘childish’ songs.
Category: Lent
With a Song in my Heart – Day 17
As we journey with God our relationship changes and we may find the names we call God change with them.
This will be reflected in our worship and the way we sing our songs of love for God.
With a Song in my Heart – Day 16
On the Day of Pentecost people praised God in many different languages. There is much to be gained by stepping out of the comfort zone of your Mother Tongue and choosing to praise the Lord in an unfamiliar language of fellow members of the Body of Christ. Geniet di reis 🙂
With a Song in my Heart – Day 15
Every so often hymn and a moment in your life intersect and you know that those words and that tune will carry you all the way to the Gates of the Celestial City. This is the one for me.
With a Song in my Heart – Day 14
Because faith is such a personal and intimate experience and we cherish our own ways of worship it is all to easy to belittle the worship of others. We are required to be humble and diligent in prayer rather than ‘holier than thou’
With a Song in my Heart – Day 13
Too often the church and its worship can become routine and and end up excluding precious Children of God.
Singing a new song in a different way allows room for the wind of the Holy Spirit to call and challenge us.
With a Song in my Heart – Day 12
Christ the King is Ruler of all Nations yet, if we give in to pride and prejudice, we can be tempted into thinking that God is only Lord of ‘our’ nation
With a Song in my Heart – Day 11
Some days, if we listen closely and are still enough, we will know the deep truth that God is always with us and alongside us
With a Song in my Heart – Day 10
We learn to praise God best when we are in harmony with others who also desire to praise God
With a Song in my Heart – Day 9
The Pilgrimage of faith is not always a constant journey and every so often it requires a physical journey to come to a spiritual destination
Suffolk Vicar 