As the story begins, narrator Gordon Buchanan quits his job at a drive-through bottle shop in Brisbane. He and his live-in girlfriend Cynthia LaMonde, a waitress, inhabit a world of casual sex, plentiful drugs and partying till dawn, pastimes that don't really give Gordon much pleasure, plagued as he is by a sense of being unfulfilled. Love affairs gone bad and fantasies undercut by reality are the norm for a generation that stops doing something the moment it becomes work, that wants to win without competing because making an effort would render victory meaningless. [3] Great is the Glory (Timothy Dudley-Smith) (Words only publication) – Hodder & Stoughton and Hope Publishing Company 1997 I can even recall when I first began to experience or to see God. I must have been aged about six and, as we sang 'Sing Hosanna', I became aware of God near me and also in my mind. I felt such an overwhelming sense of joy and happiness. It was wonderful. And magical. Like a dream but real. Like this great big mystery had been revealed to me. I began to see God quite clearly and, after the hymn had finished, I simply wanted to worship what I had seen. Written for the Corrymeela community, which workds to bring eace and reconcilliation in Northern Ireland Hymns for a Troubled World (Beall) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1991

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Fill us with your love (Thomas Colvin) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1983 Salvation Army Tune Book, The (Music only publication) – Salvationist Publishing and Supplies Ltd 1987To Sing God’s Praise (Carl Daw) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1992 Gordon comes from Dalby, a two and half hour drive west from Brisbane. Dalby is the quintessential rural Queensland town, deeply white, conservative and religious. Large families abound with well-meaning parents who tend towards a rural outlook with a friendly attitude but a fear of outsiders and change. I worked with a man who was homosexual who came from Dalby and he had no choice but to move as coming out would have been a disaster for him and his family. Author McGahan is from Dalby as is his character Gordon. I wonder if there is a little bit of the author in Gordon. Gordon left Dalby and wandered into pub work in Brisbane. He eventually left that to go on the dole and with that fell into the sparse world of boarding house living, unenjoyable sex and unenjoyable drugs. He occasionally attempted to be a poet but found his own poetry a chore. BBC Hymn Book (Part 1 of The Broadcast Hymn Book) – British Broadcasting Corporation/Oxford University Press 1951 Touch the Earth Lightly – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 2008

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Moreover, we should probably ask the despairing saint, 'Do you know your heart so well that you are sure the words of thanks have no trace of gratitude in them?' I, for one, distrust my own assessment of my motives. I doubt that I know my good ones well enough to see all the traces of contamination. And I doubt that I know my bad ones well enough to see the traces of grace. Therefore, it is not folly for a Christian to assume that there is a residue of gratitude in his heart when he speaks and sings of God's goodness even though he feels little or nothing. To this should be added that experience shows that doing the right thing, in the way I have described, is often the way toward being in the right frame. Hence Baxter gives this wise counsel to the oppressed Christian:

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New Beginnings (Brian Wren) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1993 Later Hymns & Ballads & Fifty Poems (Fred Pratt Green) – Hope Publishing Company and Stainer & Bell Ltd 1989 Gordon wasn't the most likeable guy in the world, but he wasn't the most disagreeable either. Cynthia was pretty coarse in spite of her delicate skin but she cared, and added some necessary tension to the story. Physically, the book is A4 size, and bound with plastic-coated wire-spiral, so it will open easily on music stands. University Carol Book – H. Freeman & Co./EMI Music Publishing/International Music Publications 1961

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As a subscription-based internet resource, Praise! Online will allow you to pay a small on-going fee. This will include (but not be limited to) the following: A comprehensive scripture index gives preachers, leaders and planners a wide selection of Psalms, hymns and songs to illustrate or enhance a reading or theme. Congregational Praise – Congregational Church in England & Wales/Independent Press Ltd/URC in UK 1951I sang many of these hymns at my infants school between 1979 and 1982. Our Morning Assembly was held in the school hall three times every week. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I have vivid and powerful memories of us singing these songs with a projector projecting the words on a big screen so we could all sing them. Our teacher bashing the piano and invariably telling us to sing a lot louder as God would just not hear us. This 'Come And Praise' hymn book was central to the collective worship at my school - right up until I left in 1985 when the last hymn we sung together was 'One More Step'. This excellent book by Christopher Idle discusses the authorship, composition and character of every item in the Praise! Hymnbook. Searchable using full-text search or terms such as author, theme, events, keywords, titles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and places. Praise really brings home the dreariness of a booze and drug filled, aimless, twenty something life and the book is incredibly successful at making you momentarily squirm in remembrance of some of your own twenty-something 'wasted' years. A lot of the scenes, language and attitudes rang true, loud and clear. Salvation Army Tune Book, The (First Supplement) (Music only publication) – Salvationist Publishing and Supplies Ltd 1953 Come, let us walk this road together (Tom Colvin) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1997

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With a better understanding of Australia, I do see why it won awards (aside from the fact that Australian awards committees’ looooove depressing novels, witness The Hand That Signed The Paper). The characters are vivid and their world experience gritty as well as squalid, it is based in a town and culture that has seen little enough literary exposure even today, let alone on the 1990’s. btw, I really enjoyed reading a novel set in Brisbane, QLD and the 90’s. Still depressing though. With One Voice [Australian Hymn Book] (including Catholic supplement) – Collins/HarperCollins Religious 1979Broadcast Praise (Part 2 of the Broadcast Hymn Book) – British Broadcasting Corporation/Oxford University Press 1981 Faith Will Sing (Dan Damon) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1993 Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s.” Singing to God (Michael Perry) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1995 Every Day in Your Spirit (Shirley Murray) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1996