Over the last two days I’ve updated each of the sections on my YouTube channel “A minute a day to pray” and thought it was a good time to encourage more views!
I started the channel in January of this year, aiming to put a one minute video up each day with a Bible reading and prayer. I’ve not been 100% consistent on this, intention now is to record prayers in batches with a better quality camera than I have on my laptop. Many thanks to people who encourage me in this, RG, you know who you are, thank you particularly! It helps me with my own prayer life so that also encourages me to keep going. Guest contributions very welcome, although am keen to keep to house style – Bible reading and a prayer all within a minute. Please note that I have already recorded the next few prayers, looking at the practical wisdom found in James.
(Parenthetical thought: I was doing some digging on the Internet a few weeks ago to prepare for a short class on Christian attitudes to entertainment, and came across the American Christian comedian Michael Junior. I think his videos are really, really funny. See this video where he reflects what it must have been like for James to be Jesus’ brother. End of parenthetical thought).
I’ve also uploaded Christian talks under the heading ‘Thoughts from the Bible’, the most recent being a talk I’m due to give on Thursday at school on gambling:
I don’t have any further ideas in the pipeline right now, I’ll keep you informed! Happy to take suggestions – and guest appearances.
As I mentioned in this blog post I have long been a fan of the 1973 hymn book ‘Psalm Praise’ and, now that I have a piano and my copy of the book, am recording some of my favourites at the rate of one a week. Current is a setting of Psalm 1, “Blessed is the man”:
Very aware that I am a rather better pianist than I am singer, would so love to work with a singer on this! But for the moment you’re stuck with me, sorry. Please concentrate on the song itself rather than the singing – please!
And then the last section I’ve entitled ‘My music favourites’, so far it includes a rewrite of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah as detailed in this blog post with the most recent being, “Gone but not forgotten”, a piano solo piece by Rick Wakeman which I think is hauntingly beautiful, hope my rendition is up to the task:
The next project I have in mind is a rewrite of Frank Sinatra’s “I did it my way” to become either “I did it Your way” or “I did it His way”. Idea is to keep the premise of the song – reflections of a person lying on their death bed – and make it a specifically Christian song. Any help on this gratefully received.
So, please do check it out! Given what I am already doing, any ideas gratefully received. Meanwhile, delighted to say had a superb time in Jinja with my Grade 10 Home room (Year 11 tutor group in UK speak) Tuesday to Thursday last week, students were magnificent. You’ll appreciate it’s not appropriate to upload photos of students, please see some pictures of the Nile and where we were staying. Thank you for reading!
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