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When mountains that we thought secure
When mountains that we thought secure
by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
Hymn – When mountains that we thought secure When mountains that we thought secure lie crumbled where we stand and pain and helplessness endure - all from another’s hand - Help us to bear the prophet’s mark, to stand apart from hate and witness to the Father’s call for justice i
The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant
The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant Proper 25 year A Deuteronomy 34: 1-12 The view from the mountain, enticing, expectant, the end of a journey, the start of new life; and Moses was watching with longing and heartache, while Joshua waited to lead in the strife.
When nations are healed and all warfare is banished
When nations are healed and all warfare is banished
by Andrew Pratt
When nations are healed and all warfare is banished, the hungry are fed and the poor lifted high, the vision of glory, God's presence among us, will signify love and all hatred will die. The river of life will flow on unpolluted, the language we share will express common wealth,
Times and Seasons - By a monument of marble
Times and Seasons - By a monument of marble
by Marjorie Dobson
By a monument of marble, or a simple wooden cross, here we gather to remember sacrifice and tragic loss. Blood-red poppy petals flutter, each a symbol for a life, drifting in a crimson curtain, shadow of our constant strife. Verses 2-3 follow ©Marjorie Dobson Metre: 8 7 8 7 D Tun
We stand for brave and selfless friends
We stand for brave and selfless friends
by Gareth Hill Publishing/Song Solutions CopyCare
Hymn – We stand for brave and selfless friends We stand for brave and selfless friends, who sacrificed today. In our remembering, Lord give faith, and teach us how to pray. We stand for all who die for us - and have no more to give: those we have never met or known... (c) 2009 G
Hymn: The troubles of the age
Hymn: The troubles of the age
by Michael Docker
The troubles of the age, from fear to endless war, As wealth flows to the rich While walls surround the poor, Are by God's power Promised to be Destroyed by He Whose love is sure. The landscapes of the mind, from lower thoughts to high ; From cold indifference to every hurt we cr
Hymn: By a monument of marble
Hymn: By a monument of marble
by Marjorie Dobson
By a monument of marble, or a simple wooden cross, here we gather to remember sacrifice and tragic loss. Blood-red poppy petals flutter, each a symbol for a life, drifting in a crimson curtain, shadow of our constant strife. Verses 2-3 follow ©Marjorie Dobson Tune: SCARLET RIBBON
Called and named a chosen people
Called and named a chosen people
by Andrew Pratt
Called and named a chosen people, each one safe within God's ground, each one cherished, held and nurtured, in God's grace, too deep to sound. Nothing here will hurt or harm us, love will last through trial or test, fire nor water can confound us, here within God's peace we'll re
Great God your love has held our lives
Great God your love has held our lives
by Andrew Pratt
Great God your love has held our lives through all the years down to this day. Your constant presence held us fast: remain with us we plead and pray. We've sen the ruins left by war, the tumbled buildings, street by street; some heard the voices that they loved and cried for thos
Hymn: Fear and foreboding clouding perception
Hymn: Fear and foreboding clouding perception
by Andrew Pratt
Fear and foreboding clouding perception, feel the earth shaking, dust fills the air, nations in torment, war seems unceasing, justice is absent, nothing seems fair. How do we read this Signs of the end times? Judgment of God-head striking the earth? Human indifference Natural dis
Times and Seasons - A century passes, memories will fade
Times and Seasons - A century passes, memories will fade
by Andrew Pratt
A century passes, memories will fade; war’s sun goes down, sharp pain is hid in shade. Yet still we pray for peace, as those men prayed; we will remember them. [we will remember, we will remember.] Ten times ten thousand fell amid that rage. What is the gain we measure from that
Hymn: God, give to us discerning minds
Hymn: God, give to us discerning minds
by Andrew Pratt
God, give to us discerning minds to know your love, to live by grace, to tune our lives to your commands, to live at peace within this place. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: ALFRETON, ARIZONA Metre: LM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 31/7/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.
Look around: so many places
Look around: so many places
by Andrew Pratt
Look around: so many places Look around: so many places, ravaged, ruined or destroyed. Ruthless people leaving carnage by the methods they deployed. In destruction prophets picture God in judgment showing strength. These are signs to bring the people to the Godhead's side at leng
Times and Seasons - Once crimson poppies bloomed
Times and Seasons - Once crimson poppies bloomed
by Andrew Pratt
Once crimson poppies bloomed out in a foreign field, each memory reminds where brutal death was sealed. The crimson petals flutter down, still hatred forms a thorny crown. For in this present time we wait in vain for peace, each generation cries, each longing for release, while w
Once crimson poppies bloomed
Once crimson poppies bloomed
by Andrew Pratt
Once crimson poppies bloomed out in a foreign field, each memory reminds where brutal death was sealed. The crimson petals flutter down, still hatred forms a thorny crown. For in this present time we wait in vain for peace, each generation cries, each longing for release, while w
Where bodies hang in bloody torment
Where bodies hang in bloody torment
by Andrew Pratt
Where bodies hang in bloody torment, as once prefigured by the cross, we see again in coarse oppression, such human hate and human loss. The nails once hammered through Christ’s body, are now replaced with guns or wire, sophisticated ways of torture, yet no less sharp the fear th
Such blasphemous extravagance
Such blasphemous extravagance
by Andrew Pratt
Such blasphemous extravagance as limb is torn from limb; expense is unaccountable, is this the final sin? There is no god, yet pain is god, and God is very real, amid the carnage and the fear, the hatred that we feel And did God look through human eyes and touch with human hand
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