Welcome to my web site.  This page is designed to give you an insight into part of my life, and what I believe in.

I was born in East Kilbride, Scotland.  When I was fifteen years old my family and I moved to the south east of England.  In 1988 I married my fiancé, Nicole.  We have four children, James, Nicolas, Grace and Peter.  We now live in the beautiful west Scottish highlands.  I am part of the worship group at our local Church, and I also play at different venues in the town and further a-field along with other Christian musicians.

My family and I have been blessed by the Lord's hand of provision and goodness in our lives.  We have witnessed God's healing and restoration, and testify that He is a great God, wonderful Saviour, and faithful Friend to us.

My conversion goes back to 1987, when the Lord broke into my life in the most powerful and wonderful way.  He used my wife (my girl friend at the time) to tell me about this wonderful Saviour Jesus.  At the time I was very resistant, but she and others kept praying for me.  I will never forget the day when I was driving on my own in my car listening to a preacher on a Christian radio station, he was simply talking about Jesus being the real meaning of life, and the reason why He came to the earth to take the punishment for our sins.  As I listened to this preacher, I felt like he was speaking to me personally.  God was simply using him as an instrument to convey His love for me through His gospel message.  As I continued to listen to this preacher, a joy and excitement came over me, as I believed and received what he was saying.  For all the years I thought I was a Christian, I thought I was going to heaven if I died.  I believed God existed, but I never knew Him personally, I knew "of Him", but I did not "know Him".  This was the day I became a Christian, when the Holy Spirit came into my heart and made His home there.  I will never forget that moment when I talked to God as I have never done before.  The joy I experienced was indescribable.  I have never been the same since, and I will never be the same again.  Praise God!!  Before, I had a sense of humour, now I have a great clean sense of humour, and I enjoy life like never before.  My life now has a whole new meaning, and I see life from a different prospective.  Five months after my conversion I married my lovely wife Nicole, who came all the way over from the USA to marry me.  How romantic ah.

During my years as a committed Christian I have been involved in church leadership, as well as preaching, teaching and leading worship.  Music has always played a great part in my life.  I believe God gifted me with the ability to write music at a very young age.  I remember when I was about six years old I would have melodies and music playing in my head bursting to get out.  My parents bought me my first guitar at the age of twelve, and I really enjoyed learning to play it.  My song writing started soon after I became a Christian, and it has continued since then, even though there have been years in between when I have not written anything.  Time must be put aside for song writing, I like to get alone with God and write what is on my heart.  I desire to do this more and more.

Music is a gift from God to mankind.  Imagine the movie "The Sound Of Music" without the music, it would be so different.  People for centuries have been writing and singing love songs to the special people in their lives, why should God be left out?  If we are His children and we love Him, surely we will want to sing His praises and worship Him with all of our hearts.  True worship starts in the heart of the child of God as an attitude of thankfulness and adoration towards God.  This displays itself in the lifestyle of the believer as a Godly lifestyle lived before our heavenly Father and worship and praise in song from our hearts is part of this.  After all, we were created to praise Him, as the scripture says, "let everything that has breath praise the Lord" (Psalm 150:6).  The scriptures are also full of passages of God's people rejoicing and praising.  For example, in the book of Exodus when Moses and the people crossed the Red Sea, imagine the joy in their hearts, as they sang the song of Moses & Miriam (Exodus 15).  There is passion within that song, "In Your unfailing love You will lead the people You have redeemed" ( Exodus 15:13).  Consider the Psalmist in Psalm 100, "shout for joy to the Lord all the earth, and worship the Lord with gladness, come before Him with joyful songs and know that the Lord is God".  Think of Paul and Silas when they were in prison, after being beaten several times, they decided to worship God, as it says in the scriptures, "About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God" (Acts 16:25).  Look at the great things that happened next.  There was a violent earthquake, and the foundations of the prison were shaken, then the Jailer and his family all believed and received salvation and were baptized, and Paul and Silas were released from prison.  In the book of Revelation, especially towards the end, you can't miss the amount of praise, worship, & rejoicing in song that takes place, as Jesus is lifted up and exalted as the King of Kings, the Lord of Lord's and the Lamb who was slain.

My prayer for you is that you will be blessed as you listen to the songs on this web site.  If you are a Christian, I pray that you will be brought closer to your heavenly Father and hear His voice speak to you as He reminds you just how much He loves you, and wants to make you more like Jesus.  If you are not a Christian, my prayer for you is that you will know the love of Christ and be touched by His truth, that you will be convicted by His Holy Spirit, and come to know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour that you would be brought into His glorious kingdom, and that your life will take on a whole new purpose and direction as a child of God.  It would be the best thing that could ever happen to you in your entire life.

Blessings to you
Jim Shepherd