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Just to let you know that I have just put up a new music/video on my Ishmaels Music YouTube channel of me singing ‘Almighty God is here’. I still love this old song as it contains both worship and reflection. This song can be enjoyed with full band arrangement on two Ishmael albums ‘Training up the troops’ and a wonderful version with my buddy Andy Piercy singing it on ‘Songs & Hymns’. Both song and albums can be downloaded from Ish’s shop on his website www.ishmael.org.uk.

Dear friends, Over the past few weeks I have been praying about something and I want to put out a few feelers to you to see if I should go ahead with an idea.Although I’ve written dozens of simple songs to help people to learn and memorise Bible verses, apart from the 52 track Scripture Song compilation, I’ve only released 2 albums specifically with that in mind. Scripture Praise Party in 1987 and Bible Belters in 1996. I am now wondering, 24 years later, if it’s now time to do another Scripture Song album…. or maybe there is no longer the need for these short simple songs.I am planning that…

I apologise but due to the ever rising postal charges as from now postal deliveries will be limited just to the UK. However, where ever you live in the world you can still enjoy all Ishmael’s CDs, songbooks, and most of the DVDs by downloading them. Also please checkout and subscribe to the new Ishmaels Songs YouTube channel. Loads of Ish songs being added regularly and sung acoustically by Ish on video, great fun for all the family.

On ‘Training up the troops 2’ I included an instrumental used at brother Timbo’s wedding and on ‘Praise & Glories’ I included another instrumental ‘Here comes (Timmy’s) bride’ which Tim Jupp ( who travelled with me for many years and now is the brains behind Big Church Day Out) wrote as the entrance music for his wedding to my niece Becca. I was also now well into writing books and in my ‘Children of the Voice’ novels I wrote out some words for the ‘Littlekids marching song’. I decided to give the words a tune and included it on this album.Again, many songs on this album became very popular including…

As mentioned, the troops albums were a couple of my favourites. Although both 1 & 2 were primarily aimed for children at our Glorie Company gatherings, a lot of the songs on these albums proved to be what we call crossover songs and were picked up by adults and sung at their meetings and services.Again I included a couple of instrumentals and the 1st track Andy and I wrote as the exit music for brother Timbo and his new wife Gill’s wedding service.But with all the great tracks on these albums my favourite has to be ‘What a long hard day it’s been’. Along with Father God I Wonder, this…