This is the song that I remember playing on the CD when I visited Nutfield last year. It has stayed with me since.
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Oh Love that wilt not let me go
Happy 2023 to anybody who does pass this way. Love be with you.
Hear the bells ringing
This carol is new to me. I heard it at Carols by Candlelight at a village church (not Nutfield but Harwell š ).
Wishing you a merry Christmas. May your heart be filled with love, joy and peace.
A Walk Down Memory Lane in South Nutfield
Today, Sunday, October 23rd, I set out on a special walk in South Nutfield, hoping to meet some old friends. Before the walk, IĀ went to Christchurch on Bible Sunday, and had a friendly Christ Church welcome.
I’d written to a few people beforehand, and two joined me – two faces I hadn’t seen since the 1970s! We didn’t even recognise each other at first! Then, we headed up near the priory. Looking down on the village below, we chatted, filling each other in on all the years that had passed.
They now attend Tollgate Evangelical Church, and I attend Trinity URC / Methodist Church in Abingdon.
Holy Holy
I still have the cassette but not the T Shirt or stickers. This is another song from Come Together. Its easier to play on youtube than try to splice the broken cassette tape and find a cassette player that won’t chew up the tape. I enjoy the progressions of this one, the words Precious Jesus, the invocation to fill our hearts anew, not at my (our, your) choosing but in God’s time.
Pierced for our transgressions
Give Thanks
I watch the Sunrise
Jesus hope of the nations
2 Corinthians 2 14 – May the Fragrance
But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
This was given to me as a baptismal verse when I was baptised and a member of South Nutfield Free Church. I have lost the card with the verse in fine calligraphy, and my baptism details.
Fragrance is used in the old testament where the fragrance of burnt offerings are pleasing to God. The wise men brought baby Jesus fragrant Frankincense and Myrrh. Catholic church incense is a resin incense of benzoin, frankincense, and myrrh. Mark 14 3 says ‘A woman came with a special sealed jar. It contained very expensive perfume made out of pure nard. She broke the jar open and poured the perfume on Jesusā head.’ Nard is Spikenard, the distillation of a flower. That was broken on Jesus before he died, and his death was seen as an offering for sinners. The fragrance of the knowledge of him is something pleasing to others and God.
This song by Graham Kendrick is may the fragrance of Jesus fill this place.