Category: Songs of Hope

The piano or the church organ used to be the only music that you’d hear in a church. Not these days! This podcast from Songs of Hope 1/11/2015 introduces some of the diverse sounds which are to be heard amongst southern bay-side churches.

The Songs of Hope prayer for 1/11/15 was the family prayer of famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Songs of Hope features are a talk by Rev Mark Durie at 7:30am, a prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson at 8:10am, the story of Amy Grant in the Christian music legends segment, and the story of reformer Hannah More at about 8:40am

Listen again to the Songs of Hope hymns podcast for Sunday 25 October 2015. It includes the following: Be Thou my vision – Choir of Paisley Abbey Revive us again – Greater vision Be still for the presence of the Lord – Praise Gathering choir Our Songs of Hope one hour podcast includes the story of Austalia’s federation day and

This Sunday, 25 October 2015, Songs of Hope will feature a talk by local pastor Brian Harper at 7:30am, a prayer for those facing examinations at 8:10am, and the story of the creation of Australia as a Federation and a Commonwealth on 1 January 1901.

Listen again to the story of Mary MacKillop, broadcast on Sunday 18 October, on Songs of Hope. She is Australia’s one and only saint in the Catholic church. She was an Australian nun who founded a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia. Her emphasis was education for the rural poor. Play time is