Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
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 [...]
Day 28: Contempory Music in Worship
On March - 16 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
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 [...]
Worship – Screaming
On February - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
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 [...]
Worship?
On January - 4 - 2010 3 COMMENTS
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 [...]
Writing Off Our OAP’s
On June - 12 - 2008 1 COMMENT
In July I’m going to see Ben Folds in Sheffield and a while ago on his ‘Rockin the suburbs’ album he wrote a song called Mr Jones which was basically about someone being forced to leave a job they’d done for years because they were too old. Now I’ve been thinking recently about how true [...]
Sharing the love…or rather water
On March - 8 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS
Firstly to those reading this blog and thinking ‘quarter to 3 in the morning…is he mad?’ the answer is no…just stupid…you see I got home about 20 minutes ago however before I went out I’d washed my bedding and put it into the tumble dryer…however it hadn’t quite dried so whilst it dries I am [...]
CD Reviews
On August - 18 - 2007 ADD COMMENTS
So it’s late, I have a service to plan, a talk to write and some sleep to get however on my distracted journey here is a few CD Reviews of albums I’ve bought lately. Matt Redman – Beautiful NewsBeautiful News is Matt Redman’s first album since Facedown and his first studio album since ‘Where Angels [...]