"Going to the Army!" - Marc Harry's Podcast

Welcome to another hour of fellowship, worship, music and bible teaching as heard on Fortress Radio - Sunday 26th July, 2020. The theme of this week's service is 'Banners Floating High! It features music by the Melbourne Staff Band, and The Norfolk Fellowship Band, The Agincourt Temple Songsters and The Hammond Family Band, The Boscombe Singing Company and as well as Tristan and Mandy Lanceley, wh...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 36th Episode is for April 2020 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 7th year of broadcasting. This episode is the second of a 2-part special tribute to Lt Colonel Norman Bearcroft who was Promoted to Glory last week from his home in New Jersey at the age of 94. Norman was a very special ma...

Welcome to another 65 minutes of fellowship, worship, music and bible teaching as heard on Fortress Radio - Sunday 5th July, 2020. The theme of this week's service is 'JESUS - the Lamb of God' - what a subject! It features music by the Chicago Staff Band, and The Egon Virtuoso Bands, The International Staff Songsters and Pasadena Songsters, The Sunbury Junior Singers and a the Southern Singers as...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 35th Episode is for April 2020 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 7th year of broadcasting. This episode is the first of a 2-part special tribute to Lt Colonel Norman Bearcroft who was Promoted to Glory last week from his home in New Jersey at the age of 94. Norman was a very special man...

Welcome to another 75 minutes of fellowship, worship, music and bible teaching as heard on Fortress Radio - Sunday 21st June, 2020. The theme of this week's service is 'GRACE' - what a subject! God's grace is the basis of SO MUCH for a Christian - our salvation - our ability to grow in our experience and personal holiness and the basis of our ability to 'love the unloved' and 'serve suffering huma...

As each day goes by at the moment we see new pictures of a world in utter turmoil...the amount of hatred and mistrust around the globe right now is both sad and frightening. The ANSWER to the world's problems, we know, is JESUS - yet it seems so reluctant to accept the only solution there will ever be. Jesus told the disciples that the harvest was ready - but workers were needed to go out into the...

"Peace of mind and heart" is a quality many in the world are searching for - often quite desperately - in these days. yet God is waiting to meet that very need right now - and all we have to do is ask Him for it! Now, that's great for us, as Christians, to know - but how much use it that to our neighbour, our workmate, someone in our family - if none of US have ever TOLD them? The Christian life i...

This week we celebrated Pentecost - we used to call it Whit Sunday! Remember all the children having new clothes and the marches around the neighbourhood? This is the eleventh in the series of Salvation Meetings prepared for Fortress Radio. Music featured is by the ISB and ISS, London Ontario Band, Leigh-On-Sea Singing Company and the Melbourne Staff Band - and aalso the Howard family from Lewisvi...

Every year for decades The salvation Army has held a big music festival at this time of year. For many years this was held at the Royal Albert Hall and called either The Bandmasters' (or Songster Leaders') Councils Festival. The concert was then followed by a series of three more devotional/instructional meetings held the next day at a different venue - making this a very special annual weekend fo...

This week we celebrated Ascension Day - 40 days since Easter and commemorating the day Jesus returned to His Father's side in Heaven. Having worked for the Church of England for many years I often wondered why they made quite a big deal of Ascension Day yet we in the Army didn't make such a fuss. We used to have a big, church assembly in the morning at school then had a half-day holiday! This is t...

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at - and learning from - the various appearances of the Risen Jesus: to Cleopas and the other disciple on the Road to Emmaus, to Thomas, to Peter and, today, we think of His encounter with His brother James - and appearing to over 500 witnesses at once on the mountain. Then we will examine our OWN personal encounters with Jesus. How has meeting Him chan...

People! The world is full of them - and, in the words of a popular Christian song, the NEED THE LORD. In The salvation Army we use many words for 'people' - some of them would be brothers, sisters, folk, comrades and 'whosoever'. William Booth famously sent, on one occasion, a one-word telegram that contained just the one word: OTHERS. The world needs to know that SOMEONE CARES - not just God Hims...

Do you ever wish you could have a 2nd chance? has something ever gone wrong and you've said, "How I'd like another go at THAT?" That is the theme of this, the 7th weekly Salvation Meeting I have made for Fortress Radio. Peter, after denying Jesus, was reconciled with His Master on the beach after breakfast that day - and so he became the rock on which the Christian church was to be built. Througho...

Thomas the disciple is famous for doubting the Lord's resurrection - but would we have been more easily persuaded than he? That is the theme of this, the 6th weekly Salvation Meeting I have made for Fortress Radio. Thomas, after his failing, served God wonderfully for many years before his own martyrdom - will people see 'the marks of Jesus' in us? Throughout the world we are in the grip of a drea...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 34th Episode is for April 2020 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 7th year of broadcasting.    This episode (the 44th podcast in total, including new NEW Salvation Meetings and seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, Youth Chorus, a massed item, Army groups and soloists - all shari...

Peace of mind and heart is a much sought after thing - especially right now as so many people around the whole world are worried about health, jobs, finances, loved ones and so many more of the circumstances we find ourselves in. Throughout the world we are in the grip of a dreadful pandemic. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc with the day to lives of countless millions of people. One of the con...

We have heard it claimed by some that 'Easter has been cancelled this year' - not so! The message of Easter is more relevant that ever in this time of sadness, worry, tragedy and devastation... Throughout the world we are in the grip of a dreadful pandemic. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc with the day to lives of countless millions of people. One of the consequences is the fact that we cannot...

Throughout the world we are in the grip of a dreadful pandemic. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc with the day to lives of countless millions of people. One of the consequences is the fact that we cannot, for the time being, meet in worship in our churches and Salvation Army corps. So FORTRESS RADIO has stepped in to provide two 'meetings' each Sunday at least for the duration of the curfews an...

Throughout the world we are in the grip of a dreadful pandemic. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc with the day to lives of countless millions of people. One of the consequences is the fact that we cannot, for the time being, meet in worship in our churches and Salvation Army corps. So FORTRESS RADIO has stepped in to provide two 'meetings' each Sunday at least for the duration of the curfews an...

Throughout the world we are in the grip of a dreadful pandemic. The COVID-19 virus is wreaking havoc with the day to lives of countless millions of people. One of the consequences is the fact that we cannot, for the time being, meet in worship in our churches and Salvation Army corps. So FORTRESS RADIO has stepped in to provide two 'meetings' each Sunday at least for the duration of the curfews an...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 33rd Episode is for March 2020 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 7th year of broadcasting. This episode (the 38th podcast in total, including seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, massed ensembles, a singing company, Army groups and soloists - all sharing with us music from the...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 32nd Episode is for December 2019 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 6th year of broadcasting. This episode (the 37th podcast in total, including seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, massed ensembles, a singing company, Army groups and soloists - all sharing with us music from t...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 31st Episode is for July 2019 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 6th year of broadcasting. This episode (the 36th podcast in total, including seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, massed ensembles, a singing company, Army groups and soloists - all sharing with us music from the v...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 30th Episode is for March 2017 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 4th year of broadcasting. This episode (the 35th podcast in total, including seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, massed ensembles, a singing company, rock band and soloists - all sharing with us music from the va...

"Going to the Army!" is a podcast series featuring Salvation Army music. This 29th Episode is for February 2017 and continues the "Going to the Army!" ministry, which is now in its 4th year of broadcasting. This episode (the 34th podcast in total, including seasonal specials) features bands, songsters, massed ensembles, a singing company, rock band and soloists - all sharing with us music from the...