Everyone Gets to Play
Several years ago I read Philip Yancey’s book ‘Rumours of Another World’. It led me to thinking about the stories we have heard, which have passed down through the generations about God’s very particular involvement in our world and the stories about another world, or a different place where there is no pain, tears or… Continue reading Rumours of Another World
I wrote this song some time ago but had never really finished writing it. As we started doing the rumours events, I thought I would finish it off and use it in our worship, which happened during the November rumours event. It is a simple song about God’s faithfulness, grace and love which He gives… Continue reading Time and time again
I woke up early on Christmas morning, after helping Father Christmas fill stockings, with an idea for a story. I had asked the Lord to lead me over this time and to speak, and we had watched the movie, “inception” a few days before, so I took the idea as possible inspiration – from God…… Continue reading A Christmas story
This is a rewrite of a song that Simon wrote in Waihi some time back. It was recorded at our November 2010 Rumours of Worship. It was a hard time of worship – it felt like we were fighting for a breakthrough for the nation. We had Simon’s dad and his wife Jenny join us… Continue reading Amazing Love
This song written in Waihi, still expresses the greater part of why I live. To taste and see that He is good is what life is all about. Recorded at a Rumours session where no one but I knew that song. Mark on Bass, Dan the Man on drums, Ian on guitar and Andrew B… Continue reading More Of You
This is the same song that Simon recorded “live” directly into the mac (playing with a loop), except that we played with the vocals and pitch-shifted it downwards! Quite fun. We found it was quite hard for him to hear the pitch, so I think in the end we recorded it without the pitch-shifting and… Continue reading Be still and know – the effected vocal version
When I asked Andrew what he wanted to say about this song, he said “Wow, isn’t this amazing!”… and it is. You will have to ask him why it’s called “distressed”, but it may relate to his upcoming NCEA exams… or not…. This is a song that Andrew wrote in Auckland, with one guitar, several… Continue reading Distressed
I wrote this song a while ago for a musical, for which I wrote the music. I loved the song so much that I wanted to use it in other contexts. Originally two girls sang the song as an expression of their friendship towards each other. However, I have come to realize that the friend… Continue reading Friend (Cheryl’s Song)
A couple of years ago a colleague and I were presenting some partnership work at an overseas conference. We were keen to include the value of building effective relationships, an easy thing to talk about, but in much of life the reality of messages getting confused in the ‘scrambulator’ is common. For me I so… Continue reading Rongoa
I’m thirsty, hungry, desperate and only God can quench my desire. This sums up me and this song
