Category: Getting to grips with God stuff

Well I am a Christian…

Saying it out loud!

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Last night I was speaking at the Ladies Dessert and Coffee evening in my church.

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary God

There were two of us speaking and my theme was ‘Disappointment and Hope’

I shared the story of how as the baby of 8 children and an aunty to 27 (and a great aunty to 15), how sad it was to find that I could not have children.

I had hoped for a very different outcome in my life. Disappointment doesn’t come near to how it feels.

I talked about the story of the two guys on the Road to Emmaus, walking away from Jerusalam after the death of Jesus and how they ‘had hoped’ for so much more.

They only knew half of the story. The picture is so much bigger. And I take consolation from that.

It was the first time that I had told our story in that sort of setting. It was a bit weird to hear myself say it out loud. And amazing how hard it still is to tell the story.

But even though ‘we had hoped’ for a different story, our hope is in Jesus and I thank Him and praise Him for His extraordinary love and mercy to me… an ordianry woman

Music on a Monday — Zschech it out!

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 (I know… I know…the title only works if Darlene’s surname is actually prounounced Check…)
 
I thought maybe on Monday’s I’d waffle about music. Some church, some not! Maybe comment on how the previouse days songs had affected me… or not….I WAS wondering if I’d have anything to say (quite likely most of the time….)
 
But tis a feast today….
 
I was going to talk about our church’s live Radio broadcast on RTE 1 LW and online yesterday morning.
 
But then the news came to me that Darlene Unprouncable is leaving Hillsongs to take up a joint pastorate with her husband in a Pente church in Sydney.
 
It brought back a flood of memories. ‘Shout to the Lord’ was in the 90s and some of the Noughties what In Christ Alone  became in the rest of the Noughties and continues in to the…. Tennies???
 
We sang ‘Shout to the Lord’ was at every wedding I went to , including my own. We sang it most sunday mornings. at every Bible college chapel service and evertwhere else.
 
It blew other emotive worship songs out of the water for me. And (when playing it in G) that F chord came in it just lifted the whole song. Then a key chnge in the MIDDLE of the chorus. What an effect it had on the mood of the song.
 
it was as if we couldn’t hang on til the end of the chorus to go up a key. 
 
We’re worship leaders and WE CAN’T WAIT TO MODULATE!!!
To this day listening to it brings me to another time and place in my Christian life. I don’t know whether I’ve grown that much or just swapped a bunch of insecurites for different ones. But its about 15 yeats since I heard the song first and the words are as true to me now as they were then. So I can’t be doing that bad eh?
 
If you would like to hear the broadcast of our service yesterday you can go to this link. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/player_av.html?0%2Cnull%2C200,http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-r1-reflectiveservice.smil It’s me leading the singing for the the group songs (as opposed to the hymns with the organ).
 
I’m no Darlene; but zschech me out and let me know what you think!

Back to blogging…

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I used to blog quite a bit and have decided to get back into it.

Because my brain is usually muddled, I go from funny stories to serious atgumentative ramblings in my blogs. But they are always about God and me in some way or other.

I think I’ll start by bringing some of my old blogspot posts over to word press.

Hopefully this introduction to my musings will keep you looking in on me.

Do comment if you’d like to but be gentle… I’m big on the  outside but teeny weeny on the inside 🙂

Here are my first two blogs ever, from over 3 yrs ago

Sunday, July 22, 2007

In the Beginning…

Sorry about the corny title… But in the early Christian church people gathered together, shared food, shared fellowship, ahared their possesions and shared the gospel of Jesus Christ – the Saviour.

But now – it’s all so complicated!

And if jesus came to visit us one Sunday what church would He go to? A traditional evangelical church, a lively spirit filled Pentecostal church, a Baptist church, Presbyterian, Methodist, 7th Day Adventist, Anglican????

I am new to this blog stuff and I intend to develop this thought and question fully – but for now I am just throwing the queation out…

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Church cont’d

Already I can see I am going to be as bad at blogging as I was at keeping a diary as a kid!

Anyway… on further reflection and looking at what God has to say about ‘church’ I realise my focus is all wrong. The church is the community of believers across the world. Not a building or a style.

And to be honest – if Jesus came back he would probably head off and have a cup of soup and a toasted sandwich in The Lighthouse on Pearse St or somewhere like that.

So short as it was my little musing on church was – I have found it helpful and will think some more and come back to it…

28 Oct 2010 You know what…. I never did lol