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Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 641 hymnals Refrain First Line: Lord of all, to Thee we raise Lyrics: ... Lord, to you we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise. 2 For ... so freely given, agent of God's grand design: peace on ... Topics: Worship; Dedication of Home; Dedication of Organ; God the Father God in Nature; Home; liturgical Opening Hymns

Father eternal, Ruler of creation

Author: Laurence Housman (1865-1959) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 48 hymnals Lyrics: and peoples, still we stand divided, ... aid! [Refrain:] Your kingdom come, O ... Topics: Our Response to God in intercession and petition; Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Christian Year Season of Epiphany; Jesus Word of God; Penitence; Unity of Humanity Scripture: 1 John 4:20 Used With Tune: OLD 124th

Fill now our life, O Lord our God

Author: Horatius N. Bonar (1808-1889) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 95 hymnals Lyrics: ... , O Lord our God, in every part with praise, that our whole ... the lip of praise alone, nor even the praising heart we ask, but ... for a life made up of praise ... unseen. 4 So, gracious Lord, you shall receive from us the ... Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in adoration and gratitude; Adoration Of God; Praise Scripture: 1 John 1:3 Used With Tune: BILLING

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FAITHFULNESS

Meter: 11.0.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 171 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William M. Runyan Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 33332 24444 36765 Used With Text: Great Is Your Faithfulness

FOREST GREEN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 261 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Tune Sources: English folk tune Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51112 32345 34312 Used With Text: Blessed Be the God of Israel (Luke 1:68-79)

FULDA

Appears in 725 hymnals Tune Sources: W. Gardiner Sacred Melodies 1815 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 51712 56711 17627 Used With Text: Come with all joy to sing to God

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Father God, we worship you

Author: Graham Kendrick Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #160 (2000) Lyrics: Father God, we worship you, ... Father God, we worship you, make ... God, we worship you, make us part of ... Topics: Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; The Holy Trinity; Year A Lent 3 Scripture: John 4:23 Languages: English Tune Title: [Father God, we worship you]

Father God, we worship You

Author: Graham Kendrick Hymnal: Complete Mission Praise #131 (1999) Topics: The Godhead The Trinity; Living the Christian Life Worship and Adoration Languages: English Tune Title: [Father God, we worship You]

Father in heaven, how we love You (Blessed be the Lord God Almighty)

Author: Bob Fitts Hymnal: Complete Mission Praise #135 (1999) First Line: Father in heaven, how we love You Topics: The Godhead God in Glory and Majesty; Living the Christian Life Worship and Adoration Languages: English Tune Title: [Father in heaven, how we love You]

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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

540 - 600 Person Name: Venantius Fortunatus, c. 530-609 Author of "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" in Worship (3rd ed.) Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all the Festivals of the Christian Year is lost, but some of his best hymns on his favorite topic, the cross of Jesus, are still respected today, in part because of their erotic mysticism. Bert Polman ================== Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, was born at Ceneda, near Treviso, about 530. At an early age he was converted to Christianity at Aquileia. Whilst a student at Ravenna he became almost blind, and recovered his sight, as he believed miraculously, by anointing his eyes with some oil taken from a lamp that burned before the altar of St. Martin of Tours, in a church in that town. His recovery induced him to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Martin, at Tours, in 565, and that pilgrimage resulted in his spending the rest of his life in Gaul. At Poitiers he formed a romantic, though purely platonic, attachment for Queen Rhadegunda, the daughter of Bertharius, king of the Thuringians, and the wife, though separated from him, of Lothair I., or Clotaire, king of Neustria. The reader is referred for further particulars of this part of the life of Fortunatus to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, vol. ii. p. 552. It is sufficient to say here that under the influence of Rhadegunda, who at that time lived at Poitiers, where she had founded the convent of St. Croix, Fortunatus was ordained, and ultimately, after the death of Rhadegunda in 597, became bishop of Poitiers shortly before his own death in 609. The writings, chiefly poetical, of Fortunatus, which are still extant, are very numerous and various in kind; including the liveliest Vers de Societé and the grandest hymns; while much that he is known to have written, including a volume of Hymns for all the Festivals of the Christian Year, is lost. Of what remains may be mentioned, The Life of St. Martin of Tours, his Patron Saint, in four books, containing 2245 hexameter lines. A complete list of his works will be found in the article mentioned above. His contributions to hymnology must have been very considerable, as the name of his lost volume implies, but what remains to us of that character, as being certainly his work, does not comprise at most more than nine or ten compositions, and of some of these even his authorship is more than doubtful. His best known hymn is the famous "Vexilla Regis prodeunt," so familiar to us in our Church Hymnals in some English form or other, especially, perhaps, in Dr. Neale's translation, "The Royal Banners forward go." The next most important composition claimed for him is "Pange, lingua, gloriosi praelium certaminis," but there would seem to be little doubt according to Sirmond (Notis ad Epist. Sidon. Apollin. Lib. iii., Ep. 4), that it was more probably written by Claudianus Mamertus. Besides these, which are on the Passion, there are four hymns by Fortunatus for Christmas, one of which is given by Daniel, "Agnoscat omne saeculum," one for Lent, and one for Easter. Of "Lustra sex qui jam peregit," of which an imitation in English by Bishop. Mant, "See the destined day arise," is well-known, the authorship is by some attributed to Fortunatus, and by some to St. Ambrose. The general character of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is by no means high, being distinguished neither for its classical, nor, with very rare exceptions, for its moral correctness. He represents the "last expiring effort of the Latin muse in Gaul," to retain something of the "old classical culture amid the advancing tide of barbarism." Whether we look at his style, or even his grammar and quantities, we find but too much that is open to criticism, whilst he often offends against good taste in the sentiments he enunciates. Occasionally, as we see in the "Vexilla Regis," he rises to a rugged grandeur in which he has few rivals, and some of his poems are by no means devoid of simplicity and pathos. But these are the exceptions and not the rule in his writings, and we know not how far he may have owed even these to the womanly instincts and gentler, purer influence of Rhadegunda. Thierry, in his Récits des Temps Mérovingiens, Récit 5, gives a lively sketch of Fortunatus, as in Archbishop Trench's words (Sacred Latin Poetry, 1874,p. 132), "A clever, frivolous, self-indulgent and vain character," an exaggerated character, probably, because one can hardly identify the author of "Vexilla Regis," in such a mere man of the world, or look at the writer of "Crux benedicta nitet, Dominus qua carne pependit" q.v., as being wholly devoid of the highest aspirations after things divine. A quarto edition of his Works was published in Rome in 1786. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Fortunatus, V. H. C., p. 384, i. The best edition of his poems is F. Leo's edition of his Opera Poetica, Berlin, 1881 (Monumenta Germaniae, vol. iv.). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Tom Fettke

b. 1941 Arranger of "BUNESSAN" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration Thomas E. Fettke (b. Bronx, New York City, 1941) Educated at Oakland City College and California State University, in Hayward, CA, Fettke has taught in several public and Christian high schools and served as minister of music in various churches, all in California. He has published over eight hundred compositions and arrangements (some under the pseudonyms Robert F. Douglas and David J. Allen) and produced a number of recordings. Fettke was the senior editor of The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (1986). Bert Polman

Harry Emerson Fosdick

1878 - 1969 Person Name: Harry E. Fosdick Author of "God of Grace and God of Glory" in Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship Born: May 24, 1878, Buffalo, New York. Died: October 5, 1969, Bronxville, New York. Fosdick attended Colgate University, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. Ordained in 1903, he pastored at the First Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, from 1904 to 1915. At Union Theological Seminary, he lectured on Baptist principles and homiletics (1908-1915) and was professor of practical theology (1915-1946). He also found time to serve as associate minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York (1919-1925), and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist Church (1929-1946). His picture was on the cover of Time magazine, September 21, 1925. His works include: A Guide to Understanding the Bible, 1938 The Living of These Days (an autobiography), 1956 A Book of Public Prayers, 1960 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

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