On FRIDAY 19th NOVEMBER from 7.45pm (doors open at 7.15pm) St Thomas Crookes will be hosting AN EVENING OF WORSHIP with my band to celebrate the lauch of my album ‘Christus Victor’.

The evening will be a great opportunity to worship the LORD together for an extended period of time, to hear a short presentation from HEART OF COMPASSION trust, and listen to guest speaker ANDY RUSHWORTH talk on Christ the Victor!

The event is FREE and open to anyone!!!

The album will be available to purchase on the evening for £10, a pound of which will be donated to Heart Of Compassion.

Please invite your friends, family, co-workers to this event – there’s going to be some great visuals, an awesome band and even a banjo!

Now that autumn has set in there is no better way to celebrate the damp, drizzly walks to and from work with Sheffield’s very own song-smith Richard Hawley.

Back in the 90′s, Hawley played guitar in bands like the Longpigs and Pulp, but now he is centre stage with his brand of  smoky voiced, whisky-soaked laments.

There’s something inspiring about the way Hawley manages to make normal things terraced houses, street lamps or the ocean lyrically romantic.  He looks like Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly, his baratone voice remind me of Jim Reeves or Johnny Cash, and his echo-laden tremolo guitars remind me f the Everly Brothers and some of those classic, early Sun Records.

You won’t find this guy at the forefront of the charts, next to Lady GaGa,  but his music will long endure past most of the current chart ‘hits’!

Hawley has released 7 albums to date, Truelove’s Gutter and Coles Corner are by far the best, but I still really love Lowedges. And being from Sheffield, I love how his albums seem to be named after places I regularly go to or drive through.

If you have never heard of Richard Hawley, you have some serious repentance to do!

David Cameron plugs Christus Victor from Nick Law on Vimeo.

Check out this video in which David Cameron plugs Christus Victor.  I’m hoping Ed Miliband or even Barak Obama might even make an apperance soon!

The all new WORSHIP ONE PODCAST has returned for a brand new series and to kick things off we have some great insights on songwriting from Gareth Robinson .

To listen to the episode, click on the player below or subscribe to the podcast by visitng http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/worship-one-podcast/id338985433

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We have great interviews with Lex Buckley , Chris Sayburn and Sim Walker, and Pete James coming up soon, and Jonathan Cassidy will be giving us his Top 10 Tips for Leading Worship in Small Group, starting next week!

You can now listen to Christus Victor in full online by visiting http://nicklaw.bandcamp.com.

One of my hopes for this album is that these songs will be used in churches to bless congregations, teach the deep truths of the faith and help people to encounter the living God through worship.

I think, often, Christians who make music are behind the times of the music industry in general, so it makes sense – in a world where music is so viral – that the message of the Gospel should be equally as viral  through the medium of music in a way that is culturally accessable.

So, short of Christus Victor going on to Spotify (which may happen in due course), I’ve decided to let you folks listen to it’s entirity online.

If you like the album, please support my ministry and download a copy of the album for a mere £5 from Bandcamp or Resound Media.