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Advent and Christmas
Advent and Christmas Brainstorm
A Cappella Advent
Song: Shine A Candle
The Shepherds Rap
Rap of the 3 Travellers
Twinkle twinkle Christmas Star / We know that Jesus came at Christmas
Song: O God Today
The King of Glory Comes

New Year
Into the New Year: Remembering the Past and Looking to the Future
20 (New Year) Resolutions for the Church Musician

Lent
Giving Up Musical Instruments for Lent
Soundscape: The Tree of Knowledge (13th March, 2011)

Holy Week
Soundscape: Sounds of the Supper (Maundy Thursday)
Song: Friday Lament

Easter
Holy Humour Sunday (1st Sunday after Easter)

Pentecost
What's Happening for Pentecost?
Sounds like Pentecost
The Bright Wind is Blowing

After Pentecost
Sounds Outside the Square
Soundscape: The Israelites Cross the Red Sea (11th Sept, 2011)

Weddings
Wedding Songs (for community singing)

Election
15 Songs for a Federal Election 
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Music is not inserted into worship;

rather worship is inherently musical.

We are a singing people.

How we sing together

and what we sing together

reflects our faith,

our church,

our union with fragile creation,

our thoughts and our feelings about one another,

and our attitudes toward all humanity.

Adapted from 'A Theological Statement of Music in the United Church of Canada' (July 2008)

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published songs

  • Hold this memory (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australi, Melbourne, 2003)
  • Never Alone (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australia, Melbourne, 2003) - also available on this blog.
  • My soul is sore (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australia, Melbourne, 2003)
  • He loves us all (NCYC songbook, 1987)
  • And it was very good (written for the children at KUCA campout, Euroa - also available on this blog)
  • Walk in the name of God (NCYC songbook, 2001)
  • Can we still hope? (NCYC songbook, 1987)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves:

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)

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