The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy

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The Kingdom of God is justice and joy

Author: Bryn Rees (1973)
ONE LICENSE: 28013
Published in 24 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Three Hymns of Praise, Set 7

Choral
	Oh, Worship the King - (Choral Score)

Handbells
	Almighty King

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1 The kingdom of God is justice and joy;
For Jesus restores what sin would destroy.
God's power and glory in Jesus we know;
And here and hereafter the kingdom shall grow.

2 The kingdom of God is mercy and grace;
The captives are freed, the sinners find place,
The outcast are welcomed God's banquet to share;
And hope is awakened in place of despair.

3 The kingdom of God is challenge and choice:
Believe the good news, repent and rejoice!
God's love for us sinners brought Christ to his cross:
Our crisis of judgement for gain or for loss.

4 God's kingdom is come, the gift and the goal;
In Jesus begun, in heaven made whole.
The heirs of the kingdom shall answer his call;
And all things cry "Glory!" to God all in all.

Source: Worship (4th ed.) #720

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Author: Bryn Rees

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First Line:	The Kingdom of God is justice and joy
Title:	The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy
Author:	Bryn Rees (1973)
Meter:	10.10.11.11
Language:	English
Copyright:	© 1973, Alexander Scott

Year A, Epiphany Season, Fourth Sunday
Related to Zephaniah 3 and Matthew 5 (NPM)
Year A, Easter season, Seventh Sunday
Year B, Epiphany season, Sixth Sunday

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Spanish

Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song #602

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LAUDATE DOMINUM (Parry)

LAUDATE DOMINUM (Latin words for the opening phrase of Psalm 150) comes from the end of the anthem "Hear My Words, O Ye People" by C. Hubert H. Parry (PHH 145), an anthem he composed in 1894 for a festival of the Salisbury Diocesan Choral Association. Parry's tune was set to Baker's text in the 1916…

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HANOVER (Croft)

William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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