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My wife just got the new iphone! It cost her a morning lining up outside the 02 store in town, and even though she was a nail-biting number 50 in the queue and stock levels were uncertain, her patience was rewarded...Read more

Isaac Watts never made a movie, something to do with living between 1674-1748 I guess, but in another sense he did, on a massive scale - it is just that his ‘screen’ was the worshipp..Read more

Today I begin work on a new album. So many hopes, dreams and excitements mixed in with a sense of responsibility and pressure...Read more

I’m holding in my hands a piece of worship history. A songbook that transformed the worship life of Britain. Here’s why…..Read more

Hey girls, just wanted to check in and say hi... Last night I was so encouraged as a group of us girl worship leaders from different churches and denominations around england gathered to pray and worship. I just find it so amazing that when any of us, whoever we are, from wherever we come from, gather together in His name, there He is with us. God is good...Read more

I’m back home having recently completed a 16 date tour of the UK – nothing very unusual for an itinerant worship leader, except that I didn’t use any ‘praise and worship’ songs. I should explain that for the first time in a very long time I had taken to the road to do what I used to do before praise and worship as we know it really existed, namely performing songs many of which told stories from the Gospels...Read more

Within our American Idol/Rock Star culture, often the goal is all about having--and keeping--the spotlight. As Christians, we belong to a least-is-the-greatest kingdom that pronounces the exact opposite, and yet worship leaders must regularly wrestle with the dynamics of being onstage in front of crowds...Read more

Ok, so I think I’ve got about ten minutes to blurt my thoughts out before my five-month-old baby will need my full attention again. So, its obvious now - things have changed… and to be honest I think I’m still very much coming to terms with the fact that this change is permanent. I better get used to it, get the hang of it, and get on with it...Read more

As I’ve said before, the qualities you strive for in writing worship songs are the same ones you look for in selecting them for Sunday mornings or any time you are responsible to lead a gathering of believers in worship...Read more

Well we are six days overdue now on our return flight home, and according to the airline it will be another eleven days until we’ll be able to depart Sydney to then arrive 30hrs later in London.So we are stranded! Marooned in paradise…. a place that we have known as home our entire life – up until now...Read more