Lord, from the splendour of heaven you came

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  • 1017

Lord, from the splendour of heaven you came,
entered our world in its sin and its shame
and humbly you laid all your glory aside:
born ‘Man of sorrows’, rejected, denied.

2. How can it be that the King from on high
came as a servant, to suffer and die?
The word of the Father before time began:
true Son of God, yet the true Son of Man.

3. Shepherds and sages before you bowed down;
soon you were wearing a thornier crown
and silently, led as a lamb to be slain,
bought our forgiveness and peace, through your pain.

4. “Come and adore him, your maker behold:
God’s own Messiah, as prophets foretold!
Immanuel, our God in the flesh, is now born;
people in darkness, now welcome the dawn!”

© 1988 Gill Berry / Praise Trust
Gill Berry

The Son - His Birth and Childhood

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Berry, Gillian Patricia

b Guildford, Surrey 1957. St John Bosco Sch, Chertsey, and Guildford Tech Coll; Univ Coll of N Wales, Bangor (BMus 1979, studying under Wm Matthias) and Keele Univ (Graduate Diploma in Counselling, 2000). Having worked as a choral singing tutor and administrator, she lives in Shrewsbury, married to the former pastor of an FIEC church; a music consultant for Praise! and subsequently a member of Praise Trust, who often responded to requests for a new tune. Lord from the splendour was published in 1988, from an HTV Wales Christmas Carol Competition. She has composed several tunes for texts by Emma Turl (qv), including some published in the monthly Evangelicals Now from 1993 onwards, and 35 included in Time to Celebrate (1999, music edn 2001). Some 50 of her tunes are in print, including two in the 2004 edn of CH. Nos.27B*, 30C*, 53*, 84*, 107*, 110*, 119G*, 123*, 130*, 168*, 635*, 640*, 751*, 825*, 870*, 1002*, 1014*, 1017*, 1023*, 1028*, 1029*, 1031*, 1034*, 1041*, 1045*, 1052*, 1053*, 1054*, 1058*, 1059*, 1062*, 1063*, 1069*, 1074*, 1075*, 1081*, 1082*, 1087*, 1088*, 1089*, 1091*, 1092*, 1096*, 1107*, 1110*, 1111*, 1113*, 1114*, 1123*, 1124*, 1125*, 1131*, 1135*, 1137*, 1142*, 1171*, 1172*, 1173*, 1194* 1195*, 1202*, 1213*, 1216*, 1227*, 1239*, 1244*, 1246*. Gill has also written some texts and set them to music 1017, 1126.