‘Your love reaches’ – a song by Sam Parker (that Jamie Rodwell, Graham Kendrick and I helped co-write) was used at this years Soul Survivor and it made it to the Live Album. I love it so much and it was great to see the song journey and grow in strength step by step. Enjoy! :) You can download the song/album from Itunes here Lyrics Verse 1: I searched the heavens, all of creatio...

Stuart Townend will be joining us at St George’s for an evening of worship and teaching! Stuart is a complete legend and has written so many quality songs that have blessed the Church worldwide (inc, In Christ alone, How deep the Father’s love, Beautiful Saviour, See what a morning) Date: 12 March Time: 7.30pm (church o’clock!) Venue: St G’s, Great George Street, Leeds, L...

I just wanted to share another of my (many!) failings and chat about a lesson God has been lovingly teaching me. Over the last few months I’ve really struggled with song writing, no real ideas, same old melodies / chords, lyrics etc…?I did all the things that people advise…resting from writing, writing away from the your instrument, reading books, listening to new music etc…...

I was recently asked to do a songwriting workshop with young people to help them have a go at songwriting for the church. I felt very under-qualified to do it but by the grace of God it went well and it was amazing what came out the session which was only 45 mins long! We had a complete re-write of Foo Fighter’s Pretender from one group and some amazing lyrics and tunes from others. They wer...