Yesterday I began exploring the idea of contemporary music as worship. I complimented the song writing skills of Paramore, Five Iron Frenzy and Family Force 5, had a bit of a rant and posted some thoughts on where we’re at with worship in our churches and a lack of passion (does this lack of passion   Read More …

As a musician and Christian I am lucky to be part of the few of are able to be involved in the church worship band which is probably a good thing because otherwise I suspect the music would have driven me away! More and more often I’m finding that the Matt Redman that crops up   Read More …

A couple of years ago I post some stuff on the lack of lament in our worship using the picture to the left and once again in recent weeks as I’ve pondered worship and varying the music we use to worship (see this post) I’ve been thinking about the way we express our worship. Dave   Read More …

In the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about the church and how trapped the majority of it has become. The format of church hasn’t changed majorly in the last 25 years at least…it certainly hasn’t changed in the 15 years of church I actually remember. Alongside this I’ve been pondering the topic of worship…I   Read More …

Church this morning was different and for once it wasn’t my fault! I was invited a while ago to lead the June all age as it would be my last all age…the same day the young people of one of our groups said they’d like to lead a service and so the power was handed   Read More …

I’ve just updated my Facebook status to say ‘Mark thinks church today was good…both services!’ and it’s true! I’ve been thinking for months how disconnected young people end up from communion within the baptist church because of the style in which it is done – see my blog from a couple of months back. Today   Read More …

I finally feel coherant enough to do a post on Letton Hall and in many ways doing this post I feel a bit like Paul (the bible guy) writing one of his letters because there’s lots of great stuff to share! For those that don’t know Letton Hall is a Christian Conferance centre just outside   Read More …

When you read this I shall have just arrived at Letton Hall near Dereham to help set up for a 4 day residential with 90 or so young people arriving shortly after. Once again I seem to have done my usual lack of blogging followed by a major blog-binge however I wanted to post on   Read More …

I was asked to lead worship at ‘The Point’ last night, I love leading worship especially at youth events because young people tend to look like they want to worship God

It’s been almost a week since the last blog…it’s been a pretty busy week and this week is even busier, I finished Christmas shopping today and I think I’ve finished the talk for the all age service on Sunday…whether it still makes sense in the morning is anyone’s guess. I’ve also been pondering changing the   Read More …

I know I never even said I was going but it’s been such a busy 8 days…last thursday I went to Sheffield to see Jo for the weekend, I returned home at 11:30 on Monday and left for Letton Hall at 12:30 on monday! So the last few days I’ve been a leader on The   Read More …

Last night I was leading worship at church and in order to try something that little bit different I decided to try an ‘unplugged’ worship set. So the usual singers, pianist, drummer (usually me) and bassist were given the night off and with 2 guitars and a bongo we did a more chilled out worship   Read More …