Had things gone to plan: then today – Tuesday 15th April 2025 I would have been preparing myself for one of my favourite events of the year.
Each Holy Week for quite some years now the Band and Songster Brigade from Lincoln Salvation Army here in the UK have presented an evening of reflective m…
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To mark the TENTH anniversary of the very first GttA podcast in July 2013 this is the first of a very special 4-part series of podcasts featuring music from each decade of the Army's existence right up to the present day.
The Salvation Army began - as The Christian MIssion - in 1865 when William …
'The Salvation Meeting' makes its return this Sunday after my summer break.
It returns with something, by necessity, a little different from a 'normal' meeting.The 90 minute 'special' has been specially written and recorded to be broadcast the evening before the funeral of our late Queen Elizabet…
Episode 105: Salvation Meeting (65) - Jesus - the Way, Truth and Life (What is a Salvation Meeting?)
For the last meeting prepared before I take my summer break (I'll be back in September!) I found my inspiration after seeing a question asked in a Salvation Army forum online: What is a Salvation Meeting?
In these days when most corps only have one service on a Sunday it seems strange to some to…
"Send the Fire!"
What must it have been like to have been in that room...that day...on that occasion when the sound of a mighty wind brought tongues of flame to settle on each person's head?
And then to have gone out into the streets with the followers of Jesus as each man heard the message in…
"I've had enough!!"
"Stop the world, I wanna get off!"
Heard these expressions? Maybe you've said them?
Life can sometimes seem like a trial - one thing after another, problems piling up...
Peter gives us reassurance in his first epistle:
"So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahe…
Never has there been a more maligned animal than the poor old donkey! Forever seen as slow, grumpy and - in the words of GK Chesterton "The devil's walking parody of all four-footed things."
But, as the general once wrote "In the service of Jesus there's a place for all" and oh yes, our donkey …
While in every way this is a 'traditional' Salvation Meeting in every other way I decided to use exclusively the music of General John Larsson, recently Promoted to Glory.
While choosing the music for meeting - songs, choruses, band piece, songster and singing company songs - I tried to keep away…
The meeting is titled "A Prayer for Peace" and we will be lifting up the situation in Ukraine to God in the very best Salvation Army way.
Music from the International Staff Band and Songsters, Sunbury Junior Singers, Canadian Staff Band, Portsmouth Citadel Songsters and much more...
Music from…
There can be no doubt about it!
God HAS blessed The Salvation Army over the 157 years of its existence. He still blesses our ministry today - in well over 130 countries all around the world. Hallelujah!
But, there can be no denying it, the membership/soldiery of the Army has declined to numb…
To mark St David's Day there is a distinctly Welsh flavour to the meeting this evening.
Some of the very greatest hymn tunes ever and some beautiful traditional Welsh melodies including 'David of the White Rock', Suo Gan and Gwahoddiad.
Musical items from Cardiff Canton Band and Singing Compa…
When David wrote Psalm 51 he seemed to be asking for a New Testament forgiveness - hundreds of years before it became a 'thing'!
Ashamed and horrified by his sinful behaviour he opened his heart to God and begged to be given another chance. According to Jewish Law, the only way he could achieve …
This week's meeting is based on a 2 word phrase that God spoke to me a few years ago - so clearly it may as well have been though my hi-fi speakers:
TRUST ME
Simple? Well, not as simple as it sounds...but great advice all the same!But it's a message not just for us as individuals - I BELIEVE IT'S…
This week's Meeting for Fortress Radio - the 52nd in my series - has a very special guest speaker - Capt Nicholas J. Samuel - CO at the London (Ontario) Corps in Canada. You may know his name also as a well-known SA composer of band and songster music.
He reads from and speaks about Judges 2 - w…
Tired of the same old promises to change? Still biting your nails? Not losing weight...again?
The world needs more from Christians than trivial changes like these - it needs us to create a REVOLUTION! If ever this world needed the knowledge of its loving Saviour, Jesus Christ then it needs is …
The theme for the meeting tonight proclaims Jesus as 'The Light of the World'.
At this time of Advent I am always made acutely aware of the aptness of Joy Webb';s beautiful song 'Come Into Our World'. Yes, of course it is really HIS world but, as the song alludes 'men have forgotten Him and how…
"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 39th Episode is for November 2021 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 8th year of broadcasting.
This time we have the first part of a 2 episode 'special' using the music of American com…
A theme question for the meeting tonight may well be something along the lines of ‘Are You Weary’? It’s that time of year again, isn’t it? Half way between our summer holidays and Christmas, the weather - in the UK, at least, is turning colder and most of us have resorted to putting our heating on…
It's been a while, friends.
It is only now I am feeling so much better that I can look back and appreciate quite how poorly I had become in the late spring/early summer this year. It is WONDERFUL to feel better and also to be back producing these meetings.
This meeting I described as a 'Salva…
Welcome to a very special Praise and Testimony meeting prepared for Fortress Radio.
This is the 47th meeting prepared and presented by Marc Harry since the Covid pandemic began over a year ago.
Some great hymns and songs, Salvation Army choruses, band, songster and singing company items and ev…