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This world is tangled, lost in devastation
This world is tangled, lost in devastation
by Andrew Pratt
This world is tangled, lost in devastation, people are struggling, longing to be free. How long O Lord, must hurt and degradation mar all that human eyes can search or see?… Tune:LORD OF THE YEARS A hymn for human coexistence on earth Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 18/6/2018 St…
Am I in debt?
Am I in debt?
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation: Am I in debt? Proper 18 Year A Romans 13: 8 – 14 In the meditation that follows there are lots of things for which I am thankful. You can insert your own or even, perhaps, adapt it for a congregation or group of people. Am I in debt? Surely! In debt for the love you h…
Christ's body has been broken
Christ's body has been broken
by Andrew Pratt
Christ’s body has been broken not bread but human lives, each family has scattered, just memory survives… Tune: AURELIA For Christians living in a broken world, in a hostile environment. Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 22/6/2018 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England,www.stainer.co…
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…
Nunc Dimittis
Nunc Dimittis
by Andrew Pratt
Nunc Dimittis - Simeon's song at the birth of Jesus Taken from the Book Nothing Too Religious - Click Here Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please include any reproduction for local church and school use on your CCL Licen…
We three Kings - Meditation
We three Kings - Meditation
by Andrew Pratt
A mediation on the song 'We three kings' we three kings, the magi, wise men, ‘scholars’ Extract: We three kings - A meditation for Epiphany - by Andrew Pratt A small boy stood in a church hall. It was Christmas time. They were going to sing 'Good King Wenceslas'. 'You will be the…
Thank God for those who pray for us
Thank God for those who pray for us
by Andrew Pratt
Thank God for those who pray for us Thank God for those who pray for us, as undeserving as we are; thank God for God whose gracious love is reaching to us from afar. Thank God that when we idolise the things that we have bought or made, that grace is greater than our sin. God's l…
Anonymous you come among the nations
Anonymous you come among the nations
by Andrew Pratt
Anonymous you come among the nations, outside the door of synagogue or church, and what you say will shake the world's foundations, will make the sinner sing, the righteous lurch. You come with grace, not seeking any favours, except a cup of water for your thirst, and those dismi…
What a noise, it shakes the heavens
What a noise, it shakes the heavens
by Andrew Pratt
What a noise, it shakes the heavens, rattles earth, disturbs each place, planets moving, constellations driven by God given grace. Songs of angels join the chorus, people add your words and power, with the music feel God closer, in this place and in this hour. We are objects of t…
Crowded table
Crowded table
by Andrew Pratt
Crowded tabel, urgent faces - post Easter communion hymn Tune: All For Jesus Extract: Crowded table, urgent faces, people longing for the bread, bread of life and bread for living, bread for rising from the dead; Young and old, both men and women, those for whom this life is ha…
The shells which cup such precious pearls