Common Praise #255
| Text: | Eternal God, Your Love's Tremendous Glory |
| Author: | Alan Gaunt (1935-) |
| Tune: | HIGHWOOD |
| Composer: | Richard Runciman Terry (1865-1938) |
1 Eternal God, your love's tremendous glory
cascades through life in overflowing grace,
to tell creation's meaning in the story
of love evolving love from time and space.
2 Eternal Son of God, uniquely precious,
in you, deserted, scorned and crucified,
God's love has fathomed sin and death's deep darkness,
and flawed humanity is glorified.
3 Eternal Spirit, with us like a mother,
embracing us in love serene and pure:
you nurture strength to follow Christ our brother,
as full-grown children, confident and sure.
4 Love's trinity, self-perfect, self-sustaining;
love which commands, enables and obeys:
you give yourself, in boundless joy, creating
one vast increasing harmony of praise.
5 We ask you now, complete your image in us;
this love of yours, our source and guide and goal.
May love in us, seek love and serve love's purpose,
till we ascend with Christ and find love whole.
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Eternal God, your love's tremendous glory |
| Title: | Eternal God, Your Love's Tremendous Glory |
| Author: | Alan Gaunt (1935-) |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
| Scripture: | Genesis 1:1 - 2:4; Psalm 36:5-12; Romans 8:12-17; Romans 8:18-30; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 2 Corinthians 3:1-6; Galatians 3:23-29; Galatians 4:1-7; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-12; Colossians 3:1-4; Titus 2:11-14; Titus 3:4-7; 1 John 1:1 - 2:2; Revelation 4:1-11 |
| Topic: | Trinity; Baptism (general); Images of God |
| Copyright: | © 1991 Stainer & Bell Ltd. / Hope Publishing Co. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HIGHWOOD |
| Composer: | Richard Runciman Terry (1865-1938) |
| Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
| Key: | B♭ Major |
| Copyright: | © Oxford University Press |