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Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Faith and truth and life bestowing, open now the Scriptures, Lord, seed to life eternal sowing, scattered on the wind abroad. Let not hearts, your Word receiving, like a barren field be found, choked with thorns and unbelieving, shallow earth or stony ground. 2 May the Spirit's pow'r unceasing bring to life the hidden grain, daily in our hearts increasing, bearing fruit that shall remain. So in Scripture, song, and story, Savior, may your voice be heard. Till our eyes behold your glory give us ears to hear your Word. Topics: Word of God Scripture: Matthew 13:3-23 Used With Tune: BLAENHAFREN

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HOLY MANNA

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 233 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Margaret W. Mealy, b. 1922 Tune Sources: Columbian Harmony, Cincinnati, 1825 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55611 22132 11656 Used With Text: Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

BLAENHAFREN

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 33 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jeremy S. Bakken, b. 1981 Tune Sources: Welsh Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 11765 32121 71171 Used With Text: Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

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Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Lutheran Service Book #584 (2006) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Faith and truth and life bestowing, Open now the Scriptures, Lord, Seed to life eternal sowing, Scattered on the wind abroad. Let not hearts, Your Word receiving, Like a barren field be found, Choked with thorns and unbelieving, Shallow earth or stony ground. 2 May the Spirit's pow'r unceasing Bring to life the hidden grain, Daily in our hearts increasing, Bearing fruit that shall remain. So in Scripture, song, and story, Savior, may Your voice be heard. Till our eyes behold Your glory Give us ears to hear Your Word. Topics: The Word of God; Beginning of Service Scripture: Matthew 13:3-23 Languages: English Tune Title: HOLY MANNA

Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Christian Worship #636 (2021) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Faith and truth and life bestowing, open now the Scriptures, Lord, seed to life eternal sowing, scattered on the wind abroad. Let not hearts, your Word receiving, like a barren field be found, choked with thorns and unbelieving, shallow earth or stony ground. 2 May the Spirit's pow'r unceasing bring to life the hidden grain, daily in our hearts increasing, bearing fruit that shall remain. So in Scripture, song, and story, Savior, may your voice be heard. Till our eyes behold your glory give us ears to hear your Word. Topics: Word of God Scripture: Matthew 13:3-23 Languages: English Tune Title: BLAENHAFREN

Faith and truth and life bestowing

Hymnal: Sing Glory #223 (1999) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing" in Lutheran Service Book 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