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Timeless love! We sing the story

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 11 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Timeless love! We sing the story, praise his wonders, tell his worth; love more fair than heaven's glory, love more firm than ancient earth! Tell his faithfulness abroad: who is like him? Praise the Lord! 2 By his faithfulness surrounded, north and south his hand proclaim; earth and heaven formed and founded, skies and seas, declare his Name! Wind and storm obey his word: who is like him? Praise the Lord! 3 Truth and righteousness enthrone him, just and equal are his ways; more than happy, those who own him, more than joy, their songs of praise! Sun and Shield and great Reward: who is like him? Praise the Lord! Topics: Creation; Second Sunday Before Lent Year C Scripture: Genesis 15:1 Used With Tune: ALL SAINTS

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PATRIXBOURNE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Barnard (born 1948) Incipit: 55333 21567 13543 Used With Text: Timeless love! We sing the story

TIMELESS LOVE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Norman Leonard Warren, b. 1934 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 33556 32656 11232 Used With Text: Timeless love! We sing the story

ALL SAINTS

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 130 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Monk, 1823-1889 Tune Sources: Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt, 1698 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 15665 43156 71766 Used With Text: Timeless love! We sing the story

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Timeless love! We sing the story

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (born 1926) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #47b (1987) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Timeless love! We sing the story praise his wonders, tell his worth; love more fair than heaven's glory, love more firm than ancient earth! Tell his faithfulness abroad — who is like him? Praise the Lord! 2 By his faithfulness surrounded, north and south his hand proclaim; earth and heaven formed and founded, skies and seas, declare his name! Wind and storm obey his word — who is like him? Praise the Lord! 3 Truth and righteousness enthrone him, just and equal are his ways; more than happy, those who own him, more than joy, their songs of praise! Sun and shield and great reward — who is like him? Praise the Lord! Topics: God, Father Gracious and Merciful; The Creation Scripture: Psalm 89 Languages: English Tune Title: TIMELESS LOVE

Timeless love! We sing the story

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #100 (2004) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Topics: God Through the Years His Faithfulness Scripture: Psalm 89 Languages: English Tune Title: TIMELESS LOVE

Timeless Love! We Sing the Story

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Scripture Song Database #3678 (2008) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 First Line: [Timeless Love! We Sing the Story] Scripture: Psalm 89:18 Languages: English

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "Timeless love! We sing the story" in Common Praise Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: W. H. Monk, 1823-1889 Adapter of "ALL SAINTS" in Common Praise William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman