EARTHQUAKE HYMN
EARTHQUAKE HYMN
by Andrew Pratt
HYMN IN RESPONSE TO AN EARTHQUAKE - TUNE: FULDA Please acknowledge copyright and include on your CCL Return if you have one: Extract: If God created all we see then ours is still a timeless cry; we cannot understand God's sense; we ask again the reason why. Was this prefigured by…
EARTHQUAKE HYMN - Is this the judgment of a God
EARTHQUAKE HYMN - Is this the judgment of a God
by Andrew Pratt
EARTHQUAKE HYMN - IN RESPONSE TO THE CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE Tune: Tallis Canon Also Available in PowerPoint Format - Click Here Extract: Is this the judgement of a God, a God who wind and waves obey? Where is compassion, grace and love when earthquakes, death and fear hold sway? Here…
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace
by Andrew Pratt
Dynamic law can see, through truth and grace, a child of God in every human face, a law that searches every human heart, yet sees the way of loving as an art. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: CHILTON FOLIAT Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 4/2/2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, w…
Fire and hail and snow and frost
Fire and hail and snow and frost
by Andrew Pratt
Fire and hail and snow and frost, trees in bud, then leaves are lost, yet the wind and storms that passed give the hint that love will last. all creation came to birth, all creation is of worth, Let your voices soar above, sing of God's eternal love. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: HUMIL…
Filled with anger and compassion
Filled with anger and compassion
by Andrew Pratt
Filled with anger and compassion Jesus felt another's plight, understood the ones who taunted cloaking prejudice as right. Feeling human hurt and anguish, Jesus reached to touch the man, now he'd share the condemnation, subject to a human ban. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: CALON LAN 8.…
As Jesus came riding along on a donkey
As Jesus came riding along on a donkey
by Andrew Pratt
As Jesus came riding along on a donkey, the pavement was holy, he hallowed the ground. The stones will cry out if the people are silent, a day filled with joy and with praising is found. Then those who had followed and those who came after sang loudly while waving their palms i…
Commend what is excellent, things that bring honour
Commend what is excellent, things that bring honour
by Andrew Pratt
Commend what is excellent, things that bring honour Commend what is excellent, things that bring honour, things that are praiseworthy, honest and pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever brings justice, these are the things to affirm and secure. Be known by your gentleness, loyal in …
Come wake the dead and raise the roof
Come wake the dead and raise the roof
by Andrew Pratt
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany Year A Isaiah 49 8 - 16 Hymn: Come, wake the dead and raise the roof Come, wake the dead and raise the roof, we'll picnic in the hills, the day of God will come to pass, when fear no longer chills... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stainer & Bell…
Flawed and fickle priests and people
Flawed and fickle priests and people
by Andrew Pratt
Flawed and fickle priests and people - hymn Third Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Flawed and fickle priests and people, like young children playing games, running, squabbling, teasing, laughing, calling one another names. But the children's understanding Jesus t…
Fashions, fads, have no attraction
Fashions, fads, have no attraction
by Andrew Pratt
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany Year A Matthew 6: 24 – 34 Hymn: Fashions, fads, have no attraction Fashions, fads, have no attraction, riches, feasting, lose appeal; when our minds are focussed, Christ-like, then perspective is more real... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © Stain…
God is not partial
God is not partial
by Andrew Pratt
Epiphany 1 year A Isaiah 42: 1-9; Acts 10: 34-43 Matthew 3: 13-17 Hymn: God is not partial God is not partial, calls all the people, builds up the broken, comforts the frail, raises the fallen, walks with the outcast, loves without limits, love will not fail... Andrew Pratt (bo…
God laughs at foolish schemes and plans
God laughs at foolish schemes and plans
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God laughs at foolish schemes and plans Last Sunday before Lent year A Psalm 2; 2 Peter 1:16-21 God laughs at foolish schemes and plans and sets the heavens shaking, so those who act outside God’s love, in truth, should now be quaking. A potter who has spoilt a vase may br…
God makes a mockery of death
God makes a mockery of death
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: God makes a mockery of death Sixth Sunday of Easter 1 Peter 3: 13 – 22 God makes a mockery of death, the Spirit is consistent, an Advocate will keep our part, in this Christ is insistent. We are not orphans, will not be beyond God's loving Spirit. And all that Christ has be…
God looks beyond our sad facade
God looks beyond our sad facade
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn - God looks beyond our sad facade The call of David Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16: 1 – 13 God looks beyond our sad facade, God sees within each heart; our human judgments pale before the brightness of God's art. The ones that we would wish to choose, to elevate and prais…
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams
by Andrew Pratt
God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams Fifth Sunday in Lent Ezekiel 37: 1-14 God shakes and rattles hopes and dreams, confounds our plans, destroys our schemes; the bones of faith seem dry and bare, and is God found? And is God there? The desert scene is hot and still, our deser…
God is with us Joseph heard it