Last week we released If We Make The Lord Our Stronghold for streaming on all of the major platforms. Now we have a lyric video up on YouTube.
The Art of Not Being Bored to Death in Church
This morning, Liam Cartwright has written about church worship and how it impacts upon those who have come along. He was prompted by a survey in The Times that suggests that perception in the wider populace is that going to church was the most boring activity a person can do. Leaving aside that a survey of people who by and large don’t go to church is based upon prejudice rather than experience, it raises some key points for me as a liturgist and worship leader.

Liam passionately talks about embracing breadth of tradition to lead inspiring worship in a variety of different settings. He calls for vibrancy and diversity in our worship. He’s sparked healthy debate on twitter and is inspiring people to stop leading worship they wouldn’t want to attend themselves. Prompted by one twitter interaction, I turned to my blog to talk about easter fires and plea for people to make it a spectacle. One of the defining learning experiences I had at theological college was attending a placement church where I watched on in disbelief as a disposable BBQ was cermonially lit to usher in the joy of the resurrection. A picture of me immolating myself in the church park at Holy Nativity paints a thousand words and there is a deeper issue of how the church values the leading of worship.
Read moreLet All Mortal Flesh | New Release
Let All Mortal Flesh is now available on major streaming sites or for download from iTunes.
It came out in November in time for advent but our website was down. Subscribe to Robb and Ruth Sutherland for future releases – we are working on some of our original songs.
Keep Me In Thy Love Divine | A Response to The Pandemic
Ruth and I penned this as a Christian response to living through the pandemic. It was part of Resound Worship‘s 12 Song Challenge. It is to the tune “Aberystwyth” which is very familiar to many congregations – you may know it as Jesus Lover of My Soul.
