This sermon was delivered by Pastor Cory Klein at New Hope Church of Oxford on November 30, 2025.  The text of Scripture is Isaiah 9:1-7.

Isaiah 9:1-7 - For To Us A Child Is Born (Wonderful Counselor) (Advent 2025)

What the world needs now is more… Hope
Scripture: Matthew 24:36-44


What the world needs now is more… Hope

Fall 2025 Clips / Samples

By far my favorite remix of the first single I ever released 15 years ago on the Swiss label Acuphene Records. Alexei Sopin really captured the energy of the original song while giving it a deep treatment. Now available for streaming on Spotify as well! 

Light My House - Alexei Sopin's Disco Ball Mix - Daft Werk

“Blue Light Insomnia” is a lullaby for people who forgot how to sleep. Doomscrolling at 3 a.m., overthinking every message, staring into a screen that keeps you company and keeps you broken. Pulsing synths, heartbeat kicks, and a chorus that hits like a notification you’re scared to open.

Blue Light Insomnia

its never easy still highly necessary in order to ascend yea?

FORGIVERANCE

【Verse 1】
From quiet fields I heard Your gentle calling,
A shepherd boy with nothing in my hands.
Yet in Your mercy, You gave me a burden—
To bring Your hope to distant lands.

【Verse 2】
Through storm and sea, the journey felt so heavy,
China’s doors were closed to all who came.
Still I prayed, “Lord, if I cannot enter,
Let Your holy Word go just the same.”

【Pre-Chorus】
Tears on the pages, prayers in the night,
Shaping a message of grace and of light.
Jesus, Your gospel is worth every cost—
Use me, O Lord, to reach the lost.

【Chorus】
Let Your light go first,
Let it cross the oceans wide.
Let Your truth break every darkness,
Let it shine on every side.
If my feet cannot step upon that land,
Still my heart will pray in faith:
“Jesus, send Your Word,
Let Your light go first.”

【Bridge】
It’s not the strength of what I bring,
But the power of Your name I sing.
If I am small, then You are great—
Your glory will illuminate.

【Chorus (Repeat)】
Let Your light go first,
Let it cross the oceans wide.
Let Your truth break every darkness,
Let it shine on every side.
If my life is poured out for Your call,
Let the nations see Your grace:
“Jesus, send Your Word,
Let Your light go first.”

【Ending】
Take my days, my breath, my story—
Let them all proclaim Your worth.
“Jesus, send Your Word,
Let Your light go first.”

Let Your Light Go First - Inspired by Missionary William Milne

Fade with the Light

Small Gifts is a track about purpose and reflecting on the messy internal dynamics of grief, while trying to hold the people you love close and juggling all of life’s pressures. It’s “like being in a washing machine, for the soul” - trying, failing, and often feeling like you’re getting it wrong. The track features my own vocals, which I've been gently bringing back into my production, woven together with the spoken reflections of Isolde, who runs the wonderful Murmuration Choir in Bristol. Singing with Murmuration was such a healing experience, it felt like being in a constellation. 

At its core, Small Gifts is a musical meditation on existence and the strange, fragile work of being human through life’s seismic shifts. Guided by Issi’s voice, it is sort of “a deep-dive masterclass in being you,” drifting through layered soundscapes and glimmering textures. Anyway, that's the bubble creating this piece ended up cocooning around me, during one of the most challenging windows of my life. I hope it might provide some solace for anyone else stuck in a storm of questions while navigating life's high seas.

released December 2, 2025
Small Gifts
Featuring Isolde
Written and Produced by Skies Up
Mixed by Wonderwave
Mastered by Izzy McPhee @ Weird Jungle
Artwork by Skies Up

Small Gifts

Conical

December 2, 2025

CONSTRUCT CORE (yay)
(THIS ONE'S BETTER, I SWEAR)

Blwwp

Creator, the Maker
Of heaven and the earth
The Author and the Finisher
Of faith and rebirth
He said let there be light
And there was day and there was night
And He saw it was good
He parted the waters from the waters
And Heaven stood
The morning stars sang together
The sons of God did shout for joy

All hail the Creator of all things
Bow before the Lord
All praise the Creator
He is the King of Kings
Lord of Lords Supreme

The sea and land were fashioned by His hand
Every plant every tree 
The stars up in the sky
The sun by day the moon by night
So all the earth could see
He separated light from darkness
And the glory of the Lord prevailed

All hail the Creator of all things
Come bow before the Lord
All praise for the Maker
And for the light He brings
The life that springs because He lives

Let there be the creatures of the land and sea
Let there be all kinds to magnify My Majesty
And My Creativity

I will make the bird of every feather fly up in the sky
As the eagle on high
I will make machines I know a man will never see
Well they’re just for Me

Let there be the creatures that look just like me
Let there be the soul into which the life I breathe
And bring them before me 

I will give the man the dominion over everything
Every work of My hand
I will give him truth that he might keep My every way
And with all his heart obey

Looking to Me every day his Creator
I Am his Creator
I Am the Creator
And I live forever
And nothing can stop what I do

Creator

Somni (Catalan): A quiet word for a dream that never fully left reality. 

Lyrics/Letra: 
Dime que piensas de mi
Dime, que me está matando 
Como una lágrima yo caí
Y tu te fuiste volando 

Como una fruta cuando la muerdes es dulce
Dulce, como una balada 
Si no ha madurado, no es dulce
Es ácida como tu mirada  

Él está mirando al mar 
Yo soy más de montaña, cerca de un volcán
Él se disuelve en la playa 
Yo copos de nieve, él granos de arena
Alguna vez tocamos el sol 
Yo me deshice en la vereda 

Si alguna vez el destino nos toca 
Me devuelve tus manos 
Te devuelvo mi boca 
Si alguna vez nuestras manos se tocan
Y nuestros ojos se miran 
Habrá sido voluntad divina 

Y si el destino nos arrebata 
Lo que casi fue verdad, 
Que seas muy feliz 
Pero que no deje de arder tu piel 
Si piensas… en mi. 

Lyrics, production, artistic direction: Adriana Lazcano

Somni

This Advent season, Gayle Parker opened by inviting us to rethink where real life actually begins. John’s prologue reminds us that Jesus didn’t simply enter the world in Bethlehem—He is the eternal Word who was present before creation, the One through whom all things came into being. In a season when we’re tempted to believe life will start “once we get there”—once we succeed, once we have enough, once things finally feel stable—John confronts us with a different truth. Real life is found not in our future milestones but in the Light who is already shining.
Through Amber’s story, Gayle showed how easily we follow false saviors—external pressures, internal fears, or habits that promise life but slowly steal it. Yet John insists that darkness never gets the final word. The light of Christ keeps breaking in, illuminating our choices and calling us to draw near to Him. Our task isn’t to manufacture light on our own, but to stay close to the One who brings it, letting His presence shape the way we live right now.


Video Credit: Perseid Meteor Shower 2024 Highlights - Real Time 4K | Magic Carpet Media - 
Music used: Singularity by Jonny Easton | Relaxing Ambient Music - Royalty Free...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvQgPpsuuE

Joy to the World | The Joy Of Life - John 1:1-5 - Gayle Parker

Love and light are inside us, love and light are around us, love and light support us, love and light create us.

Beatport

Medipsy_-_Love_and_light_(original)

Medipsy_-_Love_and_light_(radio_mix)

3.) Can't Wrap My Fingers Round it (Prod. By Yogic Beats)

Late Night

Daft Werk is a electronic music producer and DJ from Canada. His first passion for production began when he was only 12 years old. In 2010, with the help of the renown Swiss Producer Joss Dominguez, Daft Werk professional career started when he released his first remix on Acuphene Records. Since then, Daft Werk has been releasing remixes and original productions on labels all around the world such as Audiokult Records (Austria), Ulysse Records (Russia) as well as CitySense (Germany). Daft Werk is currently busy working on his podcast, House Werk Radio! 

http://www.youtube.com/user/DaftWerkOfficial

Producer / Song writer / Vocalist / DJ - Scotland / Bristol 

Skies Up is my musical sanctuary - a place I return to after years of people-pleasing, to rediscover who I am. I’m a singer, self-taught producer and intuitive multi-instrumentalist, crafting introspective music that blends folk-tinged vocals and ambient shimmer with hazy, nostalgia-laced electronic and dance textures. My sound is rooted in emotional storytelling, where spoken word meets drum texture, where grief becomes rhythm, and softness holds its own in the noise.

CYBER CHORD writes songs the way a porch light holds a night: small, steady, and impossible to ignore. I work with AI as a true co-writer, then carve the lyric by hand and shape the track in Suno. The sound leans bare and human—country roots in the soil, a little rock grain in the teeth, and a faith-lit lift that chooses hope without preaching.

These are ordinary-room hymns: rings hidden in cotton, receipt-tape strings, a dress behind rain glass, a sink that cools while you find the words. Silence is an instrument here; sometimes there’s a full bar where the house gets to breathe. If a line can’t survive a campfire and a cracked mug, it doesn’t make the song.

If you’re new, start with the heartbreakers. They don’t shout. They stay. I believe in the holiness of the everyday, and in the quiet bravery of saying the thing before “later” takes it away.

No paid promo, no playlist buys, no cover-art pitches, no dance offers, no cold DMs. If it’s a pitch, the porch light’s off. If you’re a real listener, come in soft: pick one song, leave a genuine note (lyric or timestamp welcome), and hand it to one friend. That’s how this fire stays lit.

May your road stay open, your coffee stay warm, and your day be peaceful.

Lyricist + creative producer.  
business enquiries: herre.lab@outlook.com
All lyrics and creative production by me.
This is a space for songwriting and storytelling.
I like to experiment with different genres and concepts, so if you like variety I guess you might like this.

YD.AD.VX.DVX.DP

Choose a song.
But atleast go to the beginning or find a reupload.

L1ST3N whIle y0u THRIV3
d0n't be a b1nary cuck!!! lik3, repost, shar3, COMMUNITY ya'll l3t's support 3ach other! For3v3r sending prayers of love and light for the world  lets ASCEND together after all, we are all of a SOUL COLL3CTIV3 remember? its OK no stress if you don't let's try to recollect together

The best of experiments, in between Ambient and many more...

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 📖 Colossians 3:16

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