Church, Music & Worship — Emilia Pickering RSS

“My Hope Is Built” is an archetypal gospel hymn, written by Edward Mote in 1834, which draws consistently on this picture of Christ as our rock. It describes him as the only solid and unchanging hope for our souls.

A lot of posts I see floating around social media at the moment are reminding me of where we were “this time last year” - and it involves a lot of lasts. Our last holidays, our last hugs, our last days of blissful ignorance. Perhaps we wish we had treasured those things more while we had the chance. A year ago this weekend was the last time I sang in my church, the last time I sat next to (I mean, actually next to) someone in my congregation, and the last time I really experienced fellowship and communion with my brothers and sisters in Christ. God-willing, those things will happen again soon, but right now (at least in my part of the...