Some more music

I did say i would talk a bit more about music, so here is a bit about Martyn Joseph.

I have been following Martyn for a very long time, and love his songwriting and the passion of his convictions, which are many and varied but spring from a deeply Christian faith-filled approach to life. I was there when he moved from being a somewhat bland artist on the Christian mainstream in the UK to an impassioned singer-songwriter who wanted to communicate often uncomfortable truths within and without the church. He has been described as the 'welsh woody guthrie'..and lots more besides, but if you like guitar based, thoughtful music then check out, in no particular order...



Check out his website for samples, including bits from his new DVD. This is not a sales pitch (despite the links) but hopefully an opportunity for anyone who wants to to discover some new music.

Comments

Alastair said…
what i should have said is i have been following Martyn's music! But blogger wont let me back in to edit the post!
9:47 am
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Trying to connect the dots, unnecessarily

Image
Another sermon - as seems to be the way of this blog at present! Life is busy and complicated, and good, and bad, and exciting, and challenging, and (in short) not conducive to getting Blog posts written! So, here's my thought for today taken from these passages (Click for details): Exodus 16:1–5, 9–15,  Psalm 78;18–29 Mt 13.1–9 Grace and Meaning In the words of St Paul, or perhaps St John, or maybe St George, or even St Ringo “When I was younger, so much younger than today.” Ah, sorry, couldn’t resist!  No, it’s not a tubby boy story – but just a general reflection that today’s story from the book of Exodus used to cause me great consternation.  Or at least was one of those parts of Scripture that didn’t seem to fit… I knew the story, the mythological story I am now convinced, of the temptations in the wilderness when Jesus proclaims, quoting Deuteronomy 6 ‘you shall not put the Lord your God to the test’. As I moved into the Anglican Church and ...
Read more

A Sermon which upset someone

So, I'm not a theological conservative.  That probably comes across in pretty much everything I write, but I thought I should say it.  I believe myself to be orthodox, however, and hold to those things which the Church expresses in the catholic creeds.  I also have a relatively 'high' theology regarding the inspiration of Scripture. But I am not a Biblical literalist, nor do I hold to a doctrine of the infallibility of Scripture. I can't.  The Bible is too rich, too deep, too difficult, too flawed for that.  And by flawed I mean I understand it to be the record of human beings trying to make sense of God at work.  It has the breath of the Spirit blowing through it's words and on every page, but when we try and make sense of God there is a chance we will go awry.... 'Hey lets condemn (and or murder) pretty much everyone who isn't in our tribe, that's obviously what God wants' kind of awry.  And if we study this book carefully then we see that ideas ...
Read more