Blogs

How long O Lord?

1 How long, O Lord, how long
must carnage blight our age?
How long before all humankind
let love disarm their rage?


2 The streets still run with blood
as dust distils the light;
while buildings clouded by the pall
of smoke are hid from sight.


3 Our children huddle, dead,
the world seems blind to wrong;
when will your people heed your word?
How long, O Lord, how long?

Andrew E. Pratt (born 1948)

© 2006 Stainer and Bell Ltd. London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: SM

Tune: TRENTHAM

Always looking for a sign – hymn inspired by John 6: 24 – 35

Always looking for a sign - John 6: 24-35

1	Always looking for a sign, 
	never seeing what is there, 
	people searching for some proof 
	fixing Jesus with a stare.
	
2	Standing lost and so bemused, 
	hoping for some broken bread, 
	Jesus meets their ignorance, 
	people needing to be fed.
	
3	Not some massive miracle, 
	simply trusting given grace, 
	this the message that they heard, 
	and they saw within his face.
	
4	And today that look survives, 
	all our needs are felt and met, 
	hope is spoken to each life, 
	love will live and not forget.  

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
© 2012 Stainer and Bell Ltd. London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: 7 7 7 7
Tune: BATTISHILL; EMMA

No peace for the Master – a hymn inspired by John 6:1-21 – Feeding of the multitude

No peace for the Master - July 28th  John 6: 1-21

1	No peace for the Master, the people would follow, 
	for he had compassion for those who were lost, 
	then when he had healed them, and answered their questions, 
	he saw they were hungry, yet food had a cost.
	
2	Now Philip computed, they never could manage, 
	but Jesus was adamant, they must be fed. 
	What was there to feed them? A boy had come forward, 
	he offered two fishes and five loaves of bread.
	
3	The crowd were now seated and Jesus was ready, 
	he lifted his eyes, blessed the fish and the bread. 
	Miraculous feeding, five thousand were feasting, 
	O wonder of wonders, yet more lay ahead. 
	
4	However we see it, God's power over nature; 
	a sharing of little so all can be fed;
	this story still points to the person of Jesus, 
	for here God is present, God's nature is read.

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2011 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre:12 11 12 11
Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO; ST CATHERINE’S COURT