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TRINITY HYMN The void that rippled with your breath
TRINITY HYMN The void that rippled with your breath
by Andrew Pratt
A majestic hymn that moves from through incarnation, cross and resurrection to Pentecost and beyond. Tune: ELLACOMBE Extract: The void that rippled with your breath was ordered to your will; then life evolved, as love informed your purpose and your skill. That love, the ground of…
TRINITY HYMN - We fathom mysteries, often fail
TRINITY HYMN - We fathom mysteries, often fail
by Andrew Pratt
A short Trinity hymn of three verses. Tune: Belmont Extract: We fathom mysteries, often fail to understand your will; O God, we tax and strain our minds and reach beyond our skill. Give us simplicity to see your Trinity of care, that furnished being on this earth, then came to me…
Whenever we're challenged by loss or disaster
Whenever we're challenged by loss or disaster
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Whenever we're challenged by loss or disaster Proper 12 year A Romans 8: 26 – 39 Whenever we're challenged by loss or disaster when horror is stalking, and health drains away, when hope has been strangled and faith follows after, our God never leaves us by night or by day. …
When those whose thoughts are crystal clear
When those whose thoughts are crystal clear
by Andrew Pratt
When those whose thoughts are crystal clear meet those who are confused, reality can seem disturbed and sense can feel abused. We stand upon a sheer abyss while vertigo takes hold, the air above, the sea beneath, our actions uncontrolled. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: MACPHERSON’S FARE…
When we bear a grudge that’s lasting
When we bear a grudge that’s lasting
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: When we bear a grudge that’s lasting Proper 19 Year A Genesis 50: 15 - 21 When we bear a grudge that’s lasting, eating us from deep within, it can cripple solid friendships, losing where love ought to win. When his brothers came to see him it was hard to read his mind... Tu…
When the glory of the presence
When the glory of the presence
by Andrew Pratt
Poem: When the glory of the presence Proper 24 year A Exodus 33: 12 – 23 When the glory of the presence of the ground of all our being leaves transcendent worth and wonder, enters in the realm of seeing, are we blinded by the dazzle? Is this presence binding? Freeing? How do we d…
When the leaders of the nations
When the leaders of the nations
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: When the leaders of the nations Proper 26 Year A Micah 3:5-12 When the leaders of the nations feast while heaping wrong on wrong; we will lose all sense of vision, discord will pervade our song. Those who perpetrate injustice, making profit out of war... Tune: GOTT WILL’S M…
When the stars were shining brightly
When the stars were shining brightly
by Andrew Pratt
When the stars were shining brightly, over silent, sand and stone, through the desert God had led us, seeking rest where we might home. Our companion, friend, defender, cloudy pillar, fiery light, brought us safe through fear and danger, to the morning from our night. Verse 2 fol…
When we're crushed and feel forsaken
When we're crushed and feel forsaken
by Andrew Pratt
When we're crushed and feel forsaken, broken on the wheel of life, know that God will re-awaken hope within the midst of strife. There is hope in desolation, barren land will be restored; love will be our vindication, faith in God will be assured. Verses 3-4 follow Metre: 8 7 8 7…
When we fail temptation's testing
When we fail temptation's testing
by Andrew Pratt
When we fail temptation's testing, find our conscience sleeping, resting, hear your people's true confession, bring your grace to make us whole. Give us time for reparation, through your mercy, re-creation, yet when time prevents forgiving may your grace still make us whole. Vers…
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
by Andrew Pratt
When will we ever learn? When will we ever hear the words and ways that lead to peace? That peace could be so near. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: SANDYS Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 21/1/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any reproduction…
Wild wilderness pathetic desolation
Wild wilderness pathetic desolation
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: Wild wilderness, pathetic desolation First Sunday in Lent Year A Matthew 4: 1 – 11 Wild wilderness, pathetic desolation, as Jesus walked, then rested for the night, for forty days his strength was tried and tested, for forty days he sifted wrong and right. He woke to hunger…
Times and Seasons - Who will sound the urgent message
Times and Seasons - Who will sound the urgent message
by Andrew Pratt
Who will sound the urgent message? Who can make the people hear? God is coming here in person, long expected, drawing near. Who will recognise the God-head? How are we to make him known? Will he have a throne of glory? Will he wear a royal crown? Verse 3 follows Tune CROSS OF JES…
Times and Seasons - Will this man bind up the broken
Times and Seasons - Will this man bind up the broken
by Andrew Pratt
Will this man bind up the broken, tend the fallen, lift the frail; man of miracle and wonder, man whose faith will never fail? See him waiting by the water, one of many in the throng, moving pushing, conversation, crowds who share a sense of wrong. Verses 3-5 follow Tune: STUTTGA…
Where the spirit wafts or blows
Where the spirit wafts or blows
by Andrew Pratt
Where the spirit wafts or blows we will never know, sometimes we will see the signs, let the spirit grow. Yet we never have control, God will make the choice, where to rest, or when to move, give the Word a voice. Verses 3-4 follow Tune: TAKE THIS MOMENT; ST AIDAN (Popple) Metre:…
Times and Seasons - Why go to the wilderness, seek out the God-head