• Wednesday’s song is (was) ‘May Christ live in your hearts’

    I’ve been away so as you can see, I am posting Wednesday’s song up a couple of days late. We will never fully realise just how deep is God’s love for us Eph 3 v 17-18 For any interested. Please do take a look. Every Wednesday and Sunday I post up a brand-new short Scripture song’ video on my Ishmaels Songs YouTube channel. May I encourage you to subscribe and watch, and encourage others to listen to, and maybe learn 2 short and simple new Bible verse songs each week

  • October’s 4 minute 49 second family talk.

    Luke 16 verses 1-12 ‘There are times when we must  use our initiative’ I make the most of every opportunity to share Scripture whether in speech or in song. Here is the short talk I gave at the Cathedral family service. I pray that God will speak to you through it. Please note…I do not choose the Scripture readings; I just, follow the lectionary. The Bible verses chosen for that day…are not always the ones that I would choose to speak on at a family service! You can watch it on Facebook or Ishmaels Songs YouTube channel

  • Sunday’s song is’ ‘Vanity, Vanity Everything is vanity!’

    It’s only when we focus on God that we can hope to make a little sense of the fallen and confusing world that we live in. For any interested. Please do take a look. Ecc 1 v 2 Every Wednesday and Sunday I post up a brand-new short Scripture song’ video on my Ishmaels Songs YouTube channel. May I encourage you to subscribe and watch, and encourage others to listen to, and maybe learn 2 short and simple new Bible verse songs each week.

  • Wednesday’s song is ‘So we can say with confidence’

    Just realised that tonight I am at another Peter James book launch in Brighton (always great fun and before you ask, I don’t know if I am in the latest ‘One of us is dead’ because obviously…I’ve not read it yet). So, posting Wednesday up a day early. The more we put our trust in Jesus, the less we will live in fear of people or the words they say.. Hebrews 13 v 6 For any interested. Please do take a look. Every Wednesday and Sunday I post up a brand-new short Scripture song’ video on my Ishmaels Songs YouTube channel. May I encourage you to subscribe and watch, and…

  • Summing up my day in Burton on Trent

    Understandably at my age, less Churches are wanting me to visit them and yet oddly more and more people are choosing to watch me sing on social media. It seems that I am far more popular on a ‘screen’ than ‘live’ these days which is quite understandable as on a screen I can be switched off!!! Seriously, knowing this, does get me thinking and wondering if the Lord is saying that my travelling ‘live gig’ days are coming to an end. Then…. I go to All Saints Church at Burton and I think…or maybe not. To begin with, the Saturday experiment of having a ‘Praise Party’ at 11am followed by…