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How Sweet The Name of Jesus Sounds – Lor


I loved singing this hymn at six or seven at Goodwood Chapel in Leicester. We sang it again yesterday at Trinity Abingdon. It’s been about 60 years since I was that little boy beside my parents. Most of the service went over my head back then, but this song was different. I loved it then, and I still love singing it now! This time, the verse that directly addresses Jesus in his many aspects particularly struck me. It was all directed at Jesus.

O Jesus, shepherd, guardian, friend,
my Prophet, Priest, and King,
my Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,
accept the praise I bring.

I am a New Creation


This song is from Songs of Praise in 1997 in Eastbourne with Dave Bilbrough and Lou Fellingham singing. Stuart Townend is on the keyboard. It is a song we sang on Sunday at my current church, based on 2 Corinthians 5, where verse 17 in the NIV says ‘ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!’

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.