by craig | Dec 8, 2023 | MUSIC
Here’s a new song from David MacGregor and myself. The lyrics were prompted by the narrative of John the Baptist in Mark 1, “Prepare the Way”, plus my ongoing reaction to the Voice Referendum in Australia, and the video interviews that I did with Rev...
by craig | May 31, 2023 | MUSIC
This song was written in 2010. The melody is Bunessan, also known as the melody for “Morning as Broken”. God of Creation Gentle life-giver Present at birth, and all through our days Author of sunrise Song in the night sky Here in this place, we offer our...
by craig | Jul 29, 2022 | MUSIC
Tim Beale and I wrote this song in 1998 for the 1999 National Christian Youth Convention. There was a slight error in the music score in the NCYC songbook (which Tim repeats here!). Here are the correct words and an audio recording by Tim. The music score is also in...
by craig | Mar 17, 2022 | MUSIC
Wash Over Me is a newer song written after an encouragement at Songwrite 2019 to write songs that were lyrically simpler, and more upbeat. It has an RnB or soul kind of groove. David MacGregor wrote the music which I love. There isn’t a recording yet. The song...
by craig | Jan 9, 2022 | MUSIC
Like a candle burning wildly Raging soft against the night Spark that leaps to clear the shadows Sending warm, disturbing light We are called to live the passion Hope stands strong against all pain for it’s only in the burning that the candle shows its...
by craig | Jan 7, 2022 | MUSIC
Here’s a recording of the song I co-wrote with David MacGregor, “How Shall We Sing?” in 2018 after the Songwrite event in Brisbane. It was prompted by Dr Tanya Riches’ input about writing songs with a local flavour. The song is a suggested...
