This Sunday we kick of a short series looking at some of the 39 Articles. It’s the first Sunday after Easter so we’ll start with this one… Article IV Of the Resurrection of Christ Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the [...]
View PostGood Friday Music

We had a great Good Friday service at St Augustine’s this morning. I’ll get the audio of my talks up a little later, but for now here’s the music that we had – at least here’s some perfect versions performed fabulously. and during communion, this:
View Post good friday, music, video, youtubeThe Oboe
For a long time the oboe has been, without any doubt, my favourite orchestral instrument. Best used to float a piercing melody over the top of strings or other instruments. Here's some great examples. La Calinda, Delius “Miss Marple”, Ken Howard Serenade for Winds; K361 3rd Movement, Mozart The Duck from “Peter and the Wolf”, [...]
View Post delius, howard, miss marple, mozart, music, oboe, prokofiev, video, youtubePage CXIV - Be Still My Soul
Page CXIV (follow the link for an explanation of that seemingly bizarre name) are a great little band producing albums of the old classic hymns in order to encourage a new generation to appropriate them anew. Their first two albums, Hymns I and Hymns II, are quite excellent and they're getting ready to launch a third. [...]
View Post be still my soul, hymns, music, page cxivGetting the Gospel Right - Defining the Crisis
It strikes me that the main problem in Christian churches today, where they have gone astray, is that they have failed to both understand and proclaim what the real crisis is. So, what is the real crisis in the Scriptures? It is not so much that man is “lonely” or just that his relationship with [...]
View Post day of the lord, judgement, mozart, music, parousia, requiem, verdi, video, youtube
