Glory be! Glory be to God the Father

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Psalms 115:13
  • Matthew 6:10
  • Luke 1:46
  • Luke 11:2
  • Luke 2:14
  • Luke 24:34
  • John 1:43
  • Acts 21:14
  • Acts 26:27
  • Romans 16:27
  • Romans 8:2
  • Philippians 4:20
  • Revelation 19:5
  • Revelation 20:12
  • Revelation 21:1
Book Number:
  • 165

Glory be! glory be to God the father,
glory be to our God on high!
Glory be! glory be to God the Father,
glory to the Spirit and to the Son.

1. Praise him, honour him,
worship him, let his love come in,
setting free even me!
bringing glory to the Spirit and to the Son.

2. Only he reigns on high,
holy name, we magnify.
Lord of all, great and small!
May the will of God the Father on earth be done.

3. Jesus Christ, risen Lord
claims us now by his living word.
Praise him for evermore!
He who was in the beginning again will come.

© 1996 Author
Brian Mayhew

Approaching God - The Eternal Trinity

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Tune

  • Glory Be!
    Metre:
    • Irregular
    Composer:
    • Mayhew, Brian John

The story behind the hymn

The first of Brian Mayhew’s 3 items in the book is also the first on the borderline between hymn and song. Words and music (GLORY BE!) were written in 1996 at the author’s home in Surbiton, Surrey, and are published here for the first time. As with his other work included in Praise!, the music came first. The composition was sung first at Emmanuel Church Tolworth, Surrey, in 1996, and ‘offered to God and to our music group as “something different

A look at the author

Mayhew, Brian John

b Oxford 1936. Wallington Grammar Sch, Surrey; Univ of Surrey (BMus in music and applied physics). A Chartered Engineer and Member of Inst of Electrical Engineers; currently a software engineer designing industrial control products. Living at Surbiton, he is a member of Emmanuel Ch (CofE), Tolworth, Surrey. He wrote A Light for Life, a musical for the Children’s Soc, published in 1997. As well as writing new texts, he has set several parts of the newer CofE liturgies (ASB1980 etc) to music, the first of which are published in Praise! Nos.165, 461, 681.