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Christ the Way of life possess me

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Living the Christian Life Prayer Used With Tune: [Christ the Way of life possess me]

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[Christ the Way of life possess me]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Phil Burt Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34556 15312 33 Used With Text: Christ the Way of life possess me

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Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Carlton R. Young Used With Text: Christ the Way of Life Possess Me

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Meter: 8.7.8.3 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Peter Moger (b. 1964) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12354 32122 34565 Used With Text: Christ the Way of life possess me

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Christ the Way of life possess me

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: Complete Mission Praise #78 (1999) Topics: Living the Christian Life Prayer Languages: English Tune Title: [Christ the Way of life possess me]
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Christ the Way of life possess me

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Common Praise #397 (2000) Meter: 8.7.8.3 Lyrics: 1 Christ the Way of life possess me, lift my heart to love and praise; guide and keep, sustain and bless me, all my days. 2 Well of life, for ever flowing, make my barren soul and bare like a watered garden growing, fresh and fair. 3 May the Tree of life in splendour from its leafy boughs impart grace divine and healing tender, strength of heart. 4 Path of life before me shining, let me come when earth is past, sorrow, self and sin resigning, home at last. Topics: Proper 10 Year A; Peace and Justice; Baptism and Confirmation Scripture: Genesis 2:9 Languages: English Tune Title: CHRIST THE WAY OF LIFE

Christ the Way of Life Possess Me

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Hymnal: The Door Is Open #7 (2002) Languages: English Tune Title: NEW FOREST

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "Christ the Way of life possess me" in Complete Mission Praise 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 posiĀ­tions, 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

Carlton R. Young

b. 1926 Composer of "NEW FOREST" in The Door Is Open

Phil Burt

b. 1957 Person Name: Phil Burt, b. 1957 Composer of "CHRIST THE WAY OF LIFE" in Common Praise