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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
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
Faith is full of contradictions
Faith is full of contradictions
by Andrew Pratt
Faith is full of contradictions, when we thought we were secure, winds of change can spin and turn us, make our claims less safe and sure. What we thought was worthy worship veiled hypocrisy and fear, now we face a common judgment, words from those we don't revere. Verses 3-4 fol
How could this man from Nazareth
How could this man from Nazareth
by Andrew Pratt
How could this man from Nazareth speak with such power and heal the sick, he spoke with great authority, the healing might have been a trick? But those who came were healed, made well, and what he said was common sense, yet spoken in a way well honed, the word of God, the present
Hymn: Look: such horror, torn, then tortured
Hymn: Look: such horror, torn, then tortured
by Andrew Pratt
Look: such horror, torn, then tortured by the scourge across his back, by the torments and derision, and the hate that twisted fact. See our God, derided dying, smeared with blood and sweat and tears, hanging in a robe of loving, now surrounded by his fears. Verse 3-5 follow Tune
Hymn: Now with laser-like precision
Hymn: Now with laser-like precision
by Andrew Pratt
Now with laser-like precision surgeons slice through flesh and bone; sharper yet in moral focus, is the Spirit God will own. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: CROSS OF JESUS Metre: 8.7.8.7 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 12/9/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
Hymn: Heirs of Christ and God's own children
Hymn: Heirs of Christ and God's own children
by Andrew Pratt
Heirs of Christ and God's own children, God our parent, yet a friend, Abba, we still pray before you: source of freedom without end. Slaves no longer: liberation, free to serve and free to pray, free to live our lives for justice, Verse 3 follows © Andrew Pratt 14/5/2012 Tune:
Wisdom: Word before creation
Wisdom: Word before creation
by Andrew Pratt
Wisdom: Word before creation, source and essence of our birth, ground of being, life's existence, energising all the earth; Verses 2-3 follow Metre: 8 7 8 7 Trochaic Tune: CROSS OF JESUS Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 27/4/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer
Hymn: Life is tough, but God will hold us
Hymn: Life is tough, but God will hold us
by Andrew Pratt
Life is tough, but God will hold us through each hardship of our lives, when our hope is torn to ribbons grace is present, love survives. God will feed us bread of heaven, finest wine to slake our thirst. Those who grieve will know God's comfort, those who waited will be first.
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes - 9 The Wisdom of God (cntd.)