David Brackenbury

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Love is the heartbeat of heaven

David Brackenbury

This was written for a "Refugee Songs" Challenge as part of the 2022/23 12 Song Challenge.

1 year ago

I will hope in the Lord (Psalm 25)

David Brackenbury

This was written for a "Songs of Hope" Challenge as part of the 2022/23 12 Song Challenge.

Psalms 25 English Singer/Songwriter Faith Hope Psalms Trust Congregational Declarational Contemporary

1 year ago

Father all creation shouts your praise

David Brackenbury

This was written on a United Adoration Day Retreat. My aim was to write a song which capture the three members of the Trinity, and in some how weaved them in to each other lyrically and musically, before giving us chance to respond.

English Singer/Songwriter Father Holy Spirit Son Of God Trinity Congregational Reflectional Contemporary

1 year ago

Plans (Jeremiah 29)

David Brackenbury

This song was written at the Resound Worship Songwriting Retreat at Wydale in 2023.

Jeremiah 29 English Singer/Songwriter Guidance Providence Personal Reflectional Contemporary

1 year ago

God be in my working

David Brackenbury

This was written for a "Songs for work" Challenge as part of the 2022/23 12 Song Challenge.

English Singer/Songwriter Missions Reflectional Contemporary

1 year ago

Pain casts a shadow

David Brackenbury

Link to the story behind the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViRemlXZlvw

3 years ago

The cross

David Brackenbury

This was written for a "Easter Songs" Challenge as part of the 2018-19 12 Song Challenge.

English Singer/Songwriter Cross Easter Forgiveness Mercy Personal Reflectional Contemporary

1 year ago

When I am broken (With me through it all)

David Brackenbury

This is a tough one. Bodmin Road Church is a family – a close family. When one of us celebrates, the rest of us celebrate – when one of us is facing a difficult situation – we all want to be there to support. 2018 was a very difficult year for the church. One of our leaders, and a much loved member not just of our church community but the wider community, died following a battle with very aggressive brain tumours. As a church, we had pulled out all the stops to pray for healing – believing in a God who could do miracles. We encouraged each other to be full of faith and stood with the family as they held on to hope. I remember the last time that I visited Andrew at home. As I walked out of the house – the words of the first verse and chorus pretty much landed straight off. I quickly noted them down in my phone, not really sure what I was going to do with them. I didn’t touch them again until months later – and in the two weeks between his death and the funeral sat down to finish the song. When a situation like this happens in a church – there are a range of emotions / responses / reactions that so often don’t get talked about. I wanted to find a way of giving voice to some of these – allowing us to open up to recognising how we were reacting, and taking that journey together. We may all have questions, we may all struggle to understand why God can heal but doesn’t always, we may all know that there is a better place that exists beyond what we see – but it hurts when we lose someone we are close to. God longs that we would involve him in those questions and involve him in those uncertainties – because he can be relied on. The chorus says this: “One thing I know is You are good Your grace has always been enough I will bring my cries before Your throne Knowing You are near, I am not alone

7 years ago

Walk through the fire

David Brackenbury

I was at home one Saturday in 2014 when I received a text from a colleague, through which it transpired that three senior colleagues at work had been suspended. Within 10 seconds of receiving that information, and knowing the situation that it related to – I felt God say to me “You’ll come through the fire and you’ll not get burned”. Armed with this information, I headed in to tell my wife that I thought I was going to get suspended the following week. I also shared that information with church as I led worship the following day – asking for their prayers, assuring them that I hadn’t done anything wrong and it would be all OK, and letting them know what God had said. Sure enough, as I went into work the following week, I was met with shortly after starting to be informed that I was going to be suspended. When I led worship the following week I updated church and told them what had happened, and then during that week that followed, I wrote this song, singing it for the first time the next Sunday. It was really important that the promises that we sung about were declared whilst going through the issue, not when everything turned out fine at the end. This song really connected with people because they saw that it came out of the confidence that God was true to His word – and we didn’t need to see the evidence of it directly in this situation because we’d seen it before and could take our confidence from that. I was off work for 10 weeks in total – possibly some of the best 10 weeks of my life. I had chance to focus on the things I enjoyed – it became a sabbatical rather than a suspension. But the thing that kept me going throughout was that there was a fire around me – but I had been promised that I would come through it without getting burned. For those who were around in church since it was written – each time we sang it, they were able to connect with the story that sits behind it – and it helped us to each face whatever our fire, valley, raging river with a faith that God is who He says he is.

11 years ago

As for me and my house

David Brackenbury

This was written for a "Family Worship" Challenge as part of the 2020 12 Song Challenge. This is the only recording I could find, taken from an end of year concert held over livestream. I will be recording an updated version.

English Singer/Songwriter Community Family Praise Worship Family/All ages Celebrational Contemporary

1 year ago

Hull, UK

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