{"id":1645,"date":"2018-11-01T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2018-11-01T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:04:58","slug":"blog-november-1st-pastor-chris-wickland-of-the-living-word-church-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Blog November 1st Pastor Chris Wickland of the Living Word Church Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Wickland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Wickland.jpg 240w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chris-Wickland-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\nRev. Christopher Wickland &#8211; Senior Pastor of The Living Word Church Network<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the show musicians\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rf1jjf5jfNQ?start=10&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video clip from Mustard Seed Songs&#8217; first musical His Story<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1645-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-Triumphal-Entry.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-Triumphal-Entry.m4a\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-Triumphal-Entry.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Triumphal Entry (Shearsmith\/Wickland) featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band from the album His Story recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\n<p>Last week I mentioned that before <em>Risen! The Musical,<\/em> Mustard Seed Songs\u2019 produced another musical called <em>His Story.<\/em>\u00a0 In <em>His Story<\/em> actors relived the life of Jesus cuing up songs performed by the Mustard Seed Soul Band, enhanced by dancing and a multi- media package.\u00a0 <em>His Story<\/em> played at the Kings Theatre, Southsea (at which the featured clip was filmed) the Ferneham Hall, Fareham and Central Hall, Westminster, London. There are some songs from <em>His Story<\/em> that also feature in\u00a0 <em>Risen! The Musical<\/em> \u00a0including \u201cJesus is my Lord,\u201d \u201cBe Set Free\u201d and an up tempo \u00a0version of \u201cYou Are My Rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members \u00a0of the Mustard Seed Soul Band have included &#8211; Guitar: Ross Gill and <\/strong><strong>Chris Wickland<\/strong><strong>, Bass: Andy Herbertson, Gareth Matthews, Ben Lewis and Harun Kotch &#8211; Drums: Darren Lewis and Josh Eaves &#8211; Percussion: Ian Johnson &#8211; Trumpet: Stuart Fowler and Jo Downs &#8211; Saxophone: Rob Richardson, Mike Backhouse \u00a0and Tim Downs &#8211; Trombone: Matthew Sargent and Philip Brockenshire &#8211; Violin: Cathy Matthews &#8211; Vocalists: Nicola Poustie, Fiona Poustie, Kat Hands, Katy Summer, Lianne Wilson, Lucy Rutherford, \u00a0Jessica Castillo-Burley, Ross Gill, Harun Kotch \u00a0and Mike Backhouse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I highlighted the name of guitarist Chris Wickland because on Friday of last week I heard him give a fantastic talk about his life &#8211; only about thirty seconds was given over to his life as a musician &#8211; the rest was devoted to his journey from Witchcraft to Christ. I cannot give what was an amazing and totally unique talk justice here but instead I encourage you to take the time to listen to Chris\u2019 talk via this link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/501936389\/videos\/10156645094346390\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/501936389\/videos\/10156645094346390\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally Chris playing guitar with the Mustard Seed Soul Band is captured approx. 1 min 1 secs into today\u2019s His<em> Story<\/em> video clip.\u00a0 He also penned the fantastically catchy music of today\u2019s featured song which Chris originally titled\u00a0 <em>Winter Festival<\/em>. I loved the tune so much that Chris graciously gave me permission to add lyrics and so it became a <em>His Story<\/em> song &#8211; <em>The Triumphal Entry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week<\/p>\n<p>Let God\u2019s peace be the Sentinel that stands on duty at the door of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>Every Day With Jesus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Christopher Wickland &#8211; Senior Pastor of The Living Word Church Network &nbsp; Video clip from Mustard Seed Songs&#8217; first musical His Story Triumphal Entry (Shearsmith\/Wickland) featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band from the album His Story recorded and produced by Ross Gill Last week I mentioned that before Risen! The Musical, Mustard Seed Songs\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}