Posts by Steve Mann

Sing to the Lord a New Song #4

These Alone Are Enough Take my heart, O Lord, take my hopes and dreams Take my mind with all its plans and schemes Give me nothing more than Your love and grace These alone, O God, are enough for me Take my thoughts, O Lord, and my memory Take my tears, my joys, my liberty…

Sing to the Lord a New Song

Goodness, Love and Mercy Oh Lord, You’re my Shepherd You make me lie in fields of green You lead me by the still waters You restore righteousness to me Though I walk through the valley I will fear no evil thing For You are with me And You comfort me Surely goodness, love and mercy…

Sing to the Lord a New Song

Sing to the Lord a New Song We continue a series that seeks to take inspiration from the words of newer hymns and songs. You don’t need me to tell you that Psalm 23 has resonated with readers of the Bible down through the ages and, today, we consider the first of three songs based…

He will guide you into all the truth

I recently went to see a film called the Christophers which, by the way, I would heartily recommend. It stars Ian McKellen as a painter renowned for two series of paintings called the ‘Christophers’ but who has lost his muse and not painted anything of note for thirty years or so. I won’t give any…

What would Jesus make of Operation Epic Fury?

The present conflict between America and Iran has been portrayed in some quarters as a ‘Holy War’ and that troubles me greatly. Why? I believe we should do all we can politically to remove brutal dictators and regimes, but this should never be at the expense of the innocent people they themselves are oppressing. Jesus…

And Now for Something Completely Different

(Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) (Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash) In October 2025, the BBC reported that UK visitors to the online pornography website Pornhub had fallen by 77% in the three months since age checks were introduced. These came after the Online Safety Act placed a legal requirement on such sites to…

Shaped by Failure

(Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash)     Back in the 1980s I was fascinated to read a book called ‘The Lost Villages of Britain’ by Richard Muir and the greatest honour I can pay it is to say that it remains on my shelves to this day when many other books have  gone. It whetted my…

The walls come tumbling down

(Image © Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash) I can remember Standing by the wall And the guns shot above our heads And we kissed as though nothing could fall And the shame was on the other side Oh, we can beat them for ever and ever It’s funny how you can hear a song countless times…

Mothering Sunday

Sing to the Lord a New Song Welcome to a new series that seeks to take inspiration from the words of newer hymns and songs. The Goodness of Jesus Come you weary heart now to Jesus Come you anxious soul now and see There is perfect love and comfort in your tears Rest here in…