I cannot count your blessings, Lord, they're wonderful

‘Wonderful’ is a big word; if we sometimes use it lightly, Scripture never does. So as the word is highlighted here in the first line and refrain of Phil Rogers’ song, we need to give it its full weight. It is a composition of personal testimony with a suggestion (especially in stz 2) of 690, and makes a gentle counterpoint to the old favourite Count your blessings. Psalm 139:18 has a similar but not identical thought; we pray to know the love of God though it is beyond knowing (Ephesians 3:19); it is good to count God’s blessings to us, though the counting process never ends. This is the author’s only entry in the present book. The song, with its own tune I CANNOT COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, is dated 1989, and entered MP in its 1990 editions. Here, the song suitably concludes the section on ‘Peace and Joy’.

b 1949. Bristol Univ (BSc 1971), followed by maths teaching. In 1979 he left his school job to work full-time in a SE London church. After 11 years he then moved to Bracknell, Berks, returned to teaching maths at Brackendale Sch (1990–97) and became actively committed to the Bracknell Family Ch. 1998 saw a further short-distance move, when he became Pastor and then Senior Elder at Ascot Baptist Ch, leading the congregation through a period of considerable change. A keyboard-player and writer of words and music, his work became known through MP in the 1980s; his 3 books include Learning to worship. He has worked for some years with the Music in Worship Foundation and edited its magazine Baseline. His current priorities include helping younger church leaders to develop their gifts, and he has ‘a particular interest in making complex theological truths accessible to ordinary believers’. No.805.