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\nWalking With The King Of Kings featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album Precious recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\nLast week I said that I have been writing this blog since 2014 and that this is the first time Christmas Day has fallen on a Thursday – the next time will be 2036. And guess what \u2013 this New Year\u2019s Day has also fallen on a Thursday! The next time will be in 2037 \u2013 cant wait! But until then from the webmaster, myself and all at Mustard Seed Songs –
\nWishing you every happiness in 2026
\nActually I have a bit more to say \u2013 first that my son, Chris married the lovely Allison on Sunday December 28th in Winchester (more of that next week) And second, although since writing this blog Christmas 2025 was the first time it had fallen on a Thursday, through some strange quirk of our Gregorian calendar New Year had fallen on a Thursday before on January 1st 2015. Here are some extracts from the blog of that day which shows just how much changes in 10 years ( actually 11 years)
\nI spent Christmas Day going to Holy Rood in the morning and then giving lifts to two delightful ladies to the Church Christmas dinner. Then had a fab meal with Caroline, before my sons, James and Chris came over with James\u2019 lovely new fianc\u00e9e Rosy.
\nDuring the holidays quite a lot of exciting things happened relating to Mustard Seed Songs. I have heard that there may well be a production of Risen!- The Musical in Coventry on May 23rd. Joffy started to write the Risen! musical score; next week we are in London to mix the Risen! double CD and hopefully
\nLast night I met up with some young Christian friends, Aaron and Natalie Beale, Stephen and April Ballard, Lois Styles and Aaron Lewis. We all went to the Cuckoo Pint pub where it was great to chat to some ex Crofton students – I have to say they made me feel more like \u201cfamily\u201d than teacher so thanks so much to Matt Ancell, Jake Taylor, George Sanford, Joe Broadway, Dean Bast, Lee Farr, Rob Hay, Hannah Wise, Vicky Atkinson and Kerry McDermott.
\nThere is also Coffee Cake and Chat at Donny\u2019s Bistro in Stubbington which I am helping to organise (It starts on January 13th and runs every two weeks until March 24th. It is aimed at giving people the opportunity to discuss, from a faith perspective, some of life\u2019s big questions such as why is there suffering in the world
\nI am sure that one of the questions that will come up at the Coffee Cake and Chat evenings will be \u201cCan we really believe what is written in the Bible?\u201d This week\u2019s featured song attempts to address this question. <\/p>\n
You say you can\u2019t trust every story that\u2019s been written,
\nBut this Gospel is different and I\u2019ll tell you why,
\nIts writers faced death, persecution and torture,
\nSo why did they tell it – why would they lie?<\/p>\n
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