Tag: love

When nations are healed – a hymn for today

1 When nations are healed and all warfare is banished, 
the hungry are fed and the poor lifted high, 
the vision of glory, God’s presence among us, 
will signify love and all hatred will die.

2 The river of life will flow on unpolluted, 
the language we share will express common wealth, 
all greed and all grasping will vanish forever, 
instead of for warfare, we’ll budget for health. 

3 The light of God’s love will then shine on forever, 
the same light will shine out from each neighbour’s eyes, 
this vision need not be set far in the future, 
through love, in God’s spirit, we can grasp this prize.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
© 2013 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: 12 11 12 11 Tunes: THE ASH GROVE; SAINT CATHERINE’S COURT

We cannot privatise God’s grace – hymn – inspired by Luke 6:27-38

We cannot privatise God's grace inspired by Luke 6:27-38 

1	We cannot privatise God's grace
	and in our hearts we know it.
	The love of God is ours, it's free,
	we know that we must show it.

2	The neighbour that becomes a friend
	becomes a gift God's given,
	the barrier that's broken down,
	a clearer path to heaven.

3	So, take my hand and let us dance
	the freedom steps from prison,
	a choreography of love
	where joy is no illusion.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2002, 2006, 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: 8 7 8 7
Tunes: DOMINUS REGIT ME; ST COLUMBA (Irish – 8787)

What news is good? A hymn inspired by: Luke 5: 1-11

What news is good? A hymn inspired by: Luke 5: 1-11

1	What news is good? What words give hope? 
	What sense of value do we feel 
	when meeting with our God in Christ, 
	what gives the sense, provides the seal?
	
2	This seal of perfect love and faith, 
	this hope of holiness and grace, 
	the knowledge that our path is right, 
	is given in our saviour's face.
	
3	A face seen in a neighbour there, 
	in one who calls across the street, 
	a foreign tongue may frame Christ's call 
	to honour him in all we meet.
	
4	And as the first disciples heard 
	a challenge they could not resist, 
	may we respond and give our lives,
	the call of love must not be missed. 

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2012 © 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: 8 8 8 8
Tune: FULDA

As we tread this Advent pathway – new poem/hymn

Travelling through Advent, a poem or, if you wish to sing, a hymn

As we tread this advent pathway – a reflective poem

As we tread this advent pathway 
stepping through this mystery, 
wonder fills each human heartbeat, 
carves new ways through history.
Others walked this way before us, 
in a different time and space, 
spoke a language foreign, distant, 
delving deeply through God's grace.

Now within imagination 
art and science visualise 
things beyond our comprehension, 
truths we've yet to realise.
Here all language strains and fractures,   
struggles to describe, inform 
what our senses lay before us, 
fail to offer shape and form.

Yet, in faith, while frail, we fumble 
reaching through the mists of time, 
finding still, within this season,
cosmic love, incarnate rhyme.


As we tread this advent pathway – an Advent hymn

As we tread this advent pathway 
stepping through this mystery, 
wonder fills each human heartbeat, 
carves new ways through history.

Others walked this way before us, 
in a different time and space, 
spoke a language foreign, distant, 
delving deeply through God's grace.

Now within imagination 
art and science visualise 
things beyond our comprehension, 
truths we've yet to realise.

Here all language strains and fractures,   
struggles to describe, inform 
what our senses lay before us, 
fail to offer shape and form.

Yet, in faith, while frail, we fumble 
reaching through the mists of time, 
finding still, within this season,
cosmic love, incarnate rhyme.
Andrew E Pratt 30/11/2024
Words © 2024 © 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: 8.7.8.7
Tunes: CHAPEL BRAE; SHIPSTON; STUTTGART

Life is tough but God will hold us…

Life is tough, but God will hold -  us inspired by Psalm 132: 1 – 12 (13 – 18)

1	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.
	
2	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.
	
3	Hear the faithful offer praises, 
	here the poor will shout for joy, 
	grace and hope will give forever 
	love that nothing can destroy.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2012 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: 8 7 8 7
Tunes: CROSS OF JESUS; LAUS DEO (Redhead)