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Dreaming of a Holy Night,
Out of the Ordinary, USA Live Worship,
Sacred Journey, What Grace
and more are available on iTunes
Graham occasionally writes blogs and articles for Christian publications and websites. Covering 'worship' issues from the practical to the theological, Graham gives insight into what he sees as God's heart for the worshipping church
May 2011Psalms: the missing jewel of the worshipping church?
It was several decades ago that A. W. Tozer described worship as the 'missing jewel of the evangelical church'. It was one of the messages that helped to fuel an embryonic worship movement that has since transformed the way millions worship across the world. I hope the late great man will forgive me for adapting his words for today to read: Psalms – the missing jewel of the worshipping church... READ MORE
June 2010Blogs for Worship Central:
My wife just got the new iphone! It cost her a morning lining up outside the 02 store in town, and even though she was a nail-biting number 50 in the queue and stock levels were uncertain, her patience was rewarded... READ MORE
Isaac Watts never made a movie, something to do with living between 1674-1748 I guess, but in another sense he did, on a massive scale - it is just that his 'screen' was the worshippers' imagination. Regarded by many as the father of the modern hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross is just one of many great texts surviving and thriving to this very day... READ MORE
I’m back home having recently completed a 16 date tour of the UK – nothing very unusual for an itinerant worship leader, except that I didn’t use any ‘praise and worship’ songs. I should explain that for the first time in a very long time I had taken to the road to do what I used to do before praise and worship as we know it really existed, namely performing songs many of which told stories from the Gospels... READ MORE
April 2006The Creed and The Craft:
Making the theology of our worship songs a priority
When I was in the middle of recording a new song I had written called Meekness and Majesty, I happened to show the text to a friend who holds a theological degree. Affirmative nodding of the head turned to a concerned shaking, and he muttered something to the effect that this could get me into trouble! In my search for an image to convey Christ being born as a human being, I had opted for ‘clothed in humanity’... READ MORE
Worship Leader Magazine. April 2006 www.worshipleader.com
November 2001
There is an explosion of contemporary praise covering almost every chart sound and genre. Graham unpacks the challenges of this creative force and analyses the 'feel good' factor.
A radical innovation that becomes commonly accepted practice can eventually become ‘the way we always do things’. At this third stage the practitioners do not always know why they are doing it that way, and detractors can be looked at askance as if there was something wrong with them... READ MORE
Worship Together Magazine
September 2001
There is an explosion of contemporary praise covering almost every chart sound and genre. Graham unpacks the challenges of this creative force and analyses the 'feel good' factor.
It's a typical scene in church-going households. The kids catch the dance beats and guitar rock of Top Of The Pops. Then they rush out to a church event where they'll be treated to more dance beats and guitar rock - with worshipful lyrics... READ MORE
Worship Together Magazine
August 1999Has the medium overwhelmed the message?
Traditional, alternative, pop-rock, Celtic, dance, rave, chant, multi-media, classical... it’s all happening somewhere in the UK!.
Traditional, alternative, pop-rock, Celtic, dance, rave, chant, multi-media, classical... it’s all happening somewhere in the UK! There may never have been so much variety, and so much room to experiment within church worship culture as there is today... READ MORE
World Wide Worship Magazine
December 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
Just because it was originally pagan doesn’t man we can’t reap a Christmas harvest, argues Graham.
If the last two Christmases are anything to go by, part of our Christmas media fare will again be the debate about the origins of Christmas. The cry of the Christians will be ‘put Christ back into Christmas’, the increasingly-vocal pagan lobby will respond ‘We were there first! You Christians stole it from us!’ In fact as far as 25 December is concerned, the pagans were there first... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
November 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
Revival and renewal don’t have to stutter after one generation. Are we ready to pass on the baton?
Under a hot Middle Eastern sun, spread out across an open field, 12 pairs of oxen laboriously turned the dusty soil, the cries of their masters echoing across the valley. Suddenly a figure was seen running up alongside the freshly-turned furrow made by the 12th team, his cloak flapping wildly... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
September 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
Knowledge of our worship heritage prevents extremism, claims Graham.
Now and again somebody asks me what my own musical influences were and I have got into a habit of saying the Baptist hymnbook and the Beatles. It wasn’t of course just the Baptist hymnbook or just the Beatles but it certainly is true that I was strongly influenced by both the traditional hymns of my church upbringing and the popular music of the sixties. The period of time in which I was a teenager was not noted for its appreciation of the past... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
August 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
Evangelism is Worship, Worship is Evangelism. There are two things that God is described as seeking. One is the lost. The other is true worshippers.
Assumptions: we all have them. Those residual deposits of belief whose power lies in the fact that they are buried deeper than our working self-knowledge normally probes. One of mine got thoroughly exploded some years ago when I heard this story... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
July 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
Death is only one of many themes largely missing from our musical vocabulary. Say 'No' to one-dimensional worship, urges Graham.
It might appear quite bizarre in the alphabetical index of one of our contemporary praise and worship songbooks: Abba Father; All hail the Lamb; All heaven declares;... Ah, lovely appearance of death. Curiosity would demand turning to the song concerned, surely an unfortunate typographical error... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
June 1995Graham wrote a series of articles for Alpha Magazine (now Christianity & Renewal) in 1995
We sing about victory, but will we pray about it? Graham calls us to prayerwalk.
Can you imagine waking up one morning knowing that every breathing person in your town had been prayed for in just the way God wanted to hear? Dare to think of it: what kinds of things might happen on such a day? How much room would God have to work in a prayed-for city... READ MORE
Alpha Magazine: www.christianitymagazine.co.uk