Gracious Father, Son and Spirit

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  • 1348

GRACIOUS FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT,
ever joined in bonds of love,
may your church share in the union
of our God, the Three-in-One.
May the love of God our Father,
poured on us in Christ the Son,
in the union of the Spirit
fill our hearts and make us one.

2 We are one in Christ our Saviour—
in his death we all have died.
In his resurrection power
we in him are made alive.
So we all, as ransomed sinners,
stand united in his love,
drawing near to God together
by his Spirit through his Son.

3 Through his word, our gracious Saviour
draws us to himself in love,
builds us up into a temple
where by grace he dwells with us.
On foundations of his promise,
built on him, our cornerstone,
may we stand as one for ever,
may his love in us be shown.

4 Lord, forgive our sad divisions;
in your gospel make us one,
bound together in your Spirit,
bought by Jesus’ precious blood.
Living worthy of our calling,
let us cast all strife aside
till as one we see his glory
as his perfect, holy bride.

Ending: Keep us steadfast in your promise,
standing firm with all the saints,
till at last we come to heaven
and as one we see your face.

© 2018 BEN SLEE bensleemusic.com
WORDS: BEN SLEE

CCLI: 7278750

8a. The Christian Life - Union With Christ

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Lowry, Robert

b Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1826, d Plainfield, New Jersey, USA 1899. After study at Bucknell Univ, he was ordained as a Baptist and served pastorates in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. From 1869 to 1875, when he was awarded his DD, he was Prof of Literature at Bucknell. He succeeded Wm Bradbury in editing Sunday School song collections, and worked with Wm H Doane in preparing many publications for the Biglow and Main Co. Between 1865 (Happy Voices) and 1886 (Glad Refrain) he published at least 6 gospel song books. Apart from one very successful composition, included in most evangelical hymnals in the UK, his work has proved more popular in N America, especially in Sankey’s collections, than in Britain. In the USA he attained considerable fame in the gospel music tradition, although he valued preaching above hymn-writing. But the (UK)Salvation Army Song Book of 1986 features 7 of his songs (the same number as the American Southern Baptist book in 1991, tunes included), notably Shall we gather at the river, written according to Sankey during a city-wide summer epidemic in Brooklyn, 1864. No.467, 424=664*, 869*

Mawson, Linda

Linda was born in Woking, Surrey 1947. She studied at the Royal College of Music and gained a  BMus, GRSM, ARCM (Piano)  Having worked in Music Education as both Piano Teacher and Secondary Music Teacher, Linda retired from teaching in July 2006. Her husband Peter also retired from Music education and early in 2007, they moved to Bristol where Peter served as co-Pastor in an Evangelical church in Headley Park. In May 2012 they moved again to Tenterden , Kent, where Peter is currently the Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church. Linda has served as music coordinator in each of the local churches she has belonged to and has also served within the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches in preparing music and as organist and pianist for Conferences.

Linda was invited to be music adviser and member of the Modern Songs team for Praise!, where her work is first published; subsequently she joined its Editorial Board as Member and Trustee. As such Linda has been involved in reviewing and selecting words and reviewing, composing and arranging music for both the book and online versions of the collection.

For many years she prepared a children’s chorus for a summer Bible Club; she had 23 compositions and 41 arrangements (many for instrumental groups and choirs) to her credit by the time of the publication of the hymn-book in 2000.  Text nos.378, 796. Tune nos.2A, 100=440, 119A*, 119E*, 133B, 166, 190*, 195*, 202*=548*, 245, 248*=815*, 270, 275*, 295*, 324*, 328*, 350*, 361*, 363*, 367*, 371*, 378, 404, 408*, 432*, 453*=910*, 462*, 474*, 480*, 510*, 512, 516*, 519, 531=784, 534=623, 579*, 598, 614*, 636*, 655, 667*, 675*, 676*, 683*, 684*, 710*, 715*, 729*, 733*, 779, 784, 789=926, 795=887, 796, 804*, 869*, 882, 885*, 895*, 914, 920*, 922*, 937*, 946*, 948*, 973*, 1205*, 1217*, 1252*.

Slee, Ben

Ben grew up in Bromley and studied music at university before coming to serve as the music pastor at Christ Church Mayfair in London.
He is married to Sarah and they have two children.
Ben is published by Praise! online at numbers 1291 & 1292