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Passion for God that makes me take time to be with Him

In this talk that was recorded early in 2011, Robert encourages us to look for where we might find rest for our souls. So many people live in a state of debilitating chronic fatigue, and even many parts of the Church sometimes appears to be in danger of both...

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A Pilgrim’s Inn Psalm – A joyous Round!

Here is something entirely uplifting: a tune to set your heart and feet a-dancing. We took Sellinger’s Round, a popular sixteenth century dance, and had fun arranging it for different instruments, including recorders, lutes, bassoons pretending to be crumhorns,...

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A Psalm for storm-tossed times

This is a psalm that describes the sort of abrupt transition that many experience in the course of life, when the boundary between one season and another is crossed, whether in stages or all of a sudden. Some find themselves plunged into change as the result of some...

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Cyber strike against Iranian nuclear faculties

Oh for the day foreseen by Isaiah when 'the word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem, and the LORD will judge (mediate) between nations and settle international disputes. When nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore and swords will...

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Come Down O Love Divine

This is such an amazing offering! Hymnary.org tells us that the inspiring words of this, one of my all-time favourite hymns, were written by Bianco da Siena, a 14th century Italian poet and wool worker from an Italian city I love dearly, and where I have met the Lord...

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Redeemer of the Nations

Mar 17, 2020 | Flashpoints, PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations, Soundcloud Prayers, World Watch

Praying for the Nations in response to the Corona Virus (1) Set to Linda Entwistle’s ‘Nunc Dimittis’ The crowds were cheering themselves hoarse as the Lord Jesus His triumphal entry into Jerusalem – but inwardly, He was weeping, because Jerusalem was about to reject...

Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven

Mar 17, 2020 | Flashpoints, PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations, Soundcloud Prayers, World Watch

Praying for the Nations in response to the Corona Virus (2) Set to the Music of an Adagio from Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto Opus 9 Number 2 - Adagio Anthony Thompson (Trumpet) with Shirley Richards and Rob Bilson (violins), Cathie Muncey (viola), and Corinne Frost...

The Lord Reigns

Mar 17, 2020 | Flashpoints, PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations, Soundcloud Prayers

Praying for the Nations in response to the Corona Virus (3) Set to the music of Bach’s concerto for oboe and violin, BWV 1060 With Thomas Herzog (oboe), Susannah Herzog, Shirley Richards and Helen Rees (violins), Julian Chan (viola), and Jo Garcia (cello). Lord,...

Your Troops will be Willing!

Mar 7, 2020 | Artistry and Poems, Soundcloud Prayers

Society expects our troops to be willing to respond to any emergency that comes along. I love the verse in Psalm 110:3 where it says that the Lord’s troops will be ‘willing on the day of battle.’ It is a powerful verse, although precisely what it means will vary for...

We dare not take Your grace for granted

Mar 7, 2020 | Artistry and Poems, Grief, Soundcloud Prayers

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under Heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to dance and a time to mourn. (Ecc. 3:1,4) Generation after generation has lived through crises that challenged the very foundations of their...

World Watch: Response to the Corona Virus

Mar 7, 2020 | PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations

I heard a top virologist saying yesterday that COVID-19 is the most frightening infection he has met in twenty years in the profession. He proceeded to explain why he considers it to be still more serious than Ebola or Mers despite the apparently low level of deaths...