This hymn is a vigorous meditation on Matthew 11.2-11. ‘We have been expecting the Messiah’, John the Baptist said. Addressing Jesus, he asked: ‘Are you he? (We have reason to doubt it.)’ The heart of the story, and of the Read More …
* This hymn is concerned with ‘the end of all things’, as envisioned by the apostle Paul. God holds all times and seasons.midi COMMENTARY 1 Thessalonians 5.1-11 Paul writes about the day of the Lord, urging believers to encourage one another. Read More …
A friend, Nicola Slee, wrote this poem in 1993, and I set it for unaccompanied SATB in 1996. It is a challenging sing, the trick being, not only to get the chromatic intervals correctly, but to find an effective balance Read More …
*** This a hymn for Advent Sunday. COMMENTARY Two Scripture passages have inspired this hymn. They make it plain that everyday human time is to be interrupted by the coming of the Son of Man. Announced in Matthew 24.36-44, it is Read More …
*** This hymn registers a suspicion of doubt behind John the Baptist’s question to Jesus: “You cannot really be the One who is to come, can you?” In singing, it would be fitting to sound a sense of awe in Read More …
This was composed for an Advent Service at Woodbrooke, the Society of Friends’ conference house in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Woodbourn Advent.midi In November 1995, on a poster outside the Friends’ Meeting House in Bournville, the following words were inscribed: Wait Read More …
** These rounds were written for a drama workshop directed by Walter Hollenweger, about the church at Corinth. Either or both are particularly suitable for gathering worshipers together. Maranatha . The Lord is in this place (Rounds).midi