WELCOME to the Bright Morning Star site. My name is David Mitchell. I’m a biblical theologian, musical director, and musicologist. Bright Morning Star is my publication site.
My new book, Awaiting the Millennial Kingdom, which came out in September, has just come out in hardback (Oct. 2024). It’s quickly becoming my most popular book. You can read bits of it here. On that page, you’ll also find the chart of Six Millennial Days and 123 Jubilees, which you maybe saw in this video here.
And, in 2023, I wrote How To Be Happy For Ever (No, Really!!), a self-help book about faith and prayer, based on praying the Lord’s prayer every day. I wrote it for the nurses in a hospital in Scotland. It’s a gentle introduction to the Christian faith for anyone who is feeling down or maybe bereaved.
Apart from the new book, my most popular book is about dying Messiah ben Joseph (2016), the best-kept secret of Rabbinic Judaism. (Thanks to everyone who has reviewed it on Amazon.) Its follow-up was Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word (2021) which shows how Jesus’s genealogies fulfil the messianic promises to Judah, Aaron, and Joseph. Or you can drink at the wellsprings of worship with The Songs of Ascents (2015). And my Message of the Psalter (1997) is perennially popular.
If you’d like to see the Messiah ben Joseph podcasts I made with Israel College of the Bible, in August 2023, you’ll find them on the Messiah ben Joseph page. You can also see some of my scholarly papers and articles.
Or check out the Mysteries tab up top.
If you want to know more about my work as a pastoral musician, then see the Music Ministry tab. Or if you want a new song for your worship time, or kids’ service, or school assembly, listen to some of these songs below. You can get free Sheet Music and Backing Tracks in Psalms, Hymns, & Songs page. Or hear other songs on the Videos Page.