Father, in your dear name we meet

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Genesis 2:24
  • Psalms 105:4
  • Psalms 128:1-3
  • Psalms 27:8
  • Ecclesiastes 4:12
  • Matthew 19:4-6
  • Mark 10:6-8
  • Luke 10:38-42
  • Luke 19:9-10
  • John 3:16
  • Ephesians 5:31
  • Hebrews 12:2
  • Hebrews 13:21
  • 1 Peter 1:18-19
  • 1 Peter 3:7
  • 1 John 3:3
Book Number:
  • 927

Father, in your dear name we meet
seeking your blessing pure, complete;
for we are yours by sovereign grace
and now, in union, seek your face.

2. Help us to be what we should be,
growing in love and purity,
a godly husband, godly wife,
joint heirs of all the grace of life.

3. Grant that our home may always be
a haven of stability
where Christ is loved, his word obeyed,
his peace enjoyed, his joy displayed.

4. Through wintry storms or worldly snares
guard us from sin and anxious cares;
together hand in hand with you
this threefold cord each day make new.

5. Grant us the faith that understands
our future days are in safe hands;
to Christ we look, on Christ depend,
our Saviour, counsellor and friend.

6. We praise you for the grace that gave
the One you loved, to seek and save
two lives redeemed by your dear Son,
two lives now joined, this day made one.

© Author/Praise Trust
Paul Mackrell

Christ's Lordship Over All of Life - Christian Marriage

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Tune

  • Rimington
    Rimington
    Metre:
    • LM (Long Metre: 88 88)
    Composer:
    • Duckworth, Francis

The story behind the hymn

As the book moves into a new section on Marriage, wedding hymns present particular problems and joys. Normally a printed service sheet gives freedom to innovate, but familiar hymns, or at least tunes, are often expected. Christians may prefer something distinctive and fresh-sounding, or tailored to the occasion, rather than simply the old favourites. If this section seems indefensibly brief and leaning towards recent writing, the theme does of course overlap with others—2c, 6b, 9d, or several in 8. The original text of Paul Mackrell’s hymn was written for his own wedding to Sue, on 15 May 1976 at Belvidere Road Church in Liverpool 8, and is first published here. He writes: ‘Both our rings are engraved on the inside with the words of 1 Peter 3:7, “Heirs together of the grace of life

A look at the author

Mackrell, Paul

b Totton, nr Southampton, Hants 1951. Totton Grammar Sch and Liverpool Univ. He works as a civil servant in the Dept for Work and Pensions (social security); and as a p/t church minister, at Hampstead Rd ch (FIEC, in fellowship with the Christian Brethren) in Dorking, Surrey. He is the author of the paperback Opening up Jonah; his one hymn in print so far was written for his wedding to Sue in Liverpool, 1976; see notes. No.927.