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All Your Commandments, Father Almighty

Author: Christopher Idle Meter: 5.5.5.5.5.5 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: All your commandments Lyrics: 1 All your commandments, Father almighty, bring to your children healing and blessing: Christians who keep them find here their comfort. 2 Daily instruct us as your disciples: each of your statutes stands firm forever; faithful your promise, free your forgiveness. 3 God of all mercy, grant me your guidance; how can the young ones keep their way holy? I have found treasure in your instruction. 4 Joy comes to nations knowing your judgments; keeping them brings us close to your kingdom-- laws that spell freedom, true liberation. 5 My heart is listening for you each morning, never desert me; speak in the nighttime; open my eyes, Lord, then lead me onward. 6 Put right my passions by your clear precept, quell my rebellions, rescue me quickly: raise and restore me, mighty Redeemer. 7 Savior whose Spirit gave us the Scriptures, train me to trust them when I am tempted; unless you helped me, I would go under. 8 Vain are my own ways; yours in the victory. Wonderful Counselor, you are my wisdom: your word shall teach me; I will obey you. Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Church Year Transfiguration; Conflict; Daily Prayer Midday Prayer; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Delight; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Prayer for Illumination; Freedom; God Light from; God Obedience to; God as Guide; God as Lawgiver; God's Sorrow; God's Will; God's Wisdom; God's Word; God's Face; God's Judgments; God's Justice; God's law; God's Love; God's Promises; God's Protection; Grâce; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Teacher; Jesus Christ Way, Truth, and Life; Joy; Judgment; Life Stages Youth; Lord's Prayer 2nd petition (your kingdom come); Love for God; Mercy; Occasional Services Ordination and/or Installation; Remembering; Salvation; Seeking God; Suffering; Temptation And Trial; Ten Commandments 9th Commandment (do not bear false witness); The Fall; Trust; Truth; Victory; Wisdom Psalms; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 6th Sunday; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 7th Sudnay; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 10-16; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 24-30; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 4-10; Year B, Lent, 5th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 16-22; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5 Scripture: Psalm 119 Used With Tune: KANCIONAL NEW

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KANCIONAL NEW

Meter: 5.5.5.5.5.5 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred V. Fedak Tune Key: D Major Used With Text: All Your Commandments, Father Almighty

SANDLING WAY

Meter: 10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Norman Warren; Linda Mawson Tune Key: e minor or modal Incipit: 12343 21721 11234 Used With Text: All your commandments, Father Almighty

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All Your Commandments, Father Almighty

Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #119O (2012) Meter: 5.5.5.5.5.5 First Line: All your commandments Lyrics: 1 All your commandments, Father almighty, bring to your children healing and blessing: Christians who keep them find here their comfort. 2 Daily instruct us as your disciples: each of your statutes stands firm forever; faithful your promise, free your forgiveness. 3 God of all mercy, grant me your guidance; how can the young ones keep their way holy? I have found treasure in your instruction. 4 Joy comes to nations knowing your judgments; keeping them brings us close to your kingdom-- laws that spell freedom, true liberation. 5 My heart is listening for you each morning, never desert me; speak in the nighttime; open my eyes, Lord, then lead me onward. 6 Put right my passions by your clear precept, quell my rebellions, rescue me quickly: raise and restore me, mighty Redeemer. 7 Savior whose Spirit gave us the Scriptures, train me to trust them when I am tempted; unless you helped me, I would go under. 8 Vain are my own ways; yours in the victory. Wonderful Counselor, you are my wisdom: your word shall teach me; I will obey you. Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Church Year Transfiguration; Conflict; Daily Prayer Midday Prayer; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Delight; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Prayer for Illumination; Freedom; God Light from; God Obedience to; God as Guide; God as Lawgiver; God's Sorrow; God's Will; God's Wisdom; God's Word; God's Face; God's Judgments; God's Justice; God's law; God's Love; God's Promises; God's Protection; Grâce; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Teacher; Jesus Christ Way, Truth, and Life; Joy; Judgment; Life Stages Youth; Lord's Prayer 2nd petition (your kingdom come); Love for God; Mercy; Occasional Services Ordination and/or Installation; Remembering; Salvation; Seeking God; Suffering; Temptation And Trial; Ten Commandments 9th Commandment (do not bear false witness); The Fall; Trust; Truth; Victory; Wisdom Psalms; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 6th Sunday; Year A, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 7th Sudnay; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 10-16; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 24-30; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 4-10; Year B, Lent, 5th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 16-22; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5 Scripture: Psalm 119 Languages: English Tune Title: KANCIONAL NEW

All your commandments, Father Almighty

Author: Christopher Idle Hymnal: Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship #119a (2013) Meter: 10.10.10 Topics: The Christian Life Guidance; Education / Schools and colleges Scripture: Psalm 119 Languages: English Tune Title: SANDLING WAY

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Christopher M. Idle

b. 1938 Person Name: Christopher Idle Author of "All Your Commandments, Father Almighty" in Psalms for All Seasons Christopher Martin Idle (b. Bromley, Kent, England, 1938) was educated at Elthan College, St. Peter's College, Oxford, and Clifton Theological College in Bristol, and was ordained in the Church of England. He served churches in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; London; and Oakley, Suffolk; and recently returned to London, where he is involved in various hymnal projects. A prolific author of articles on the Christian's public responsibilities, Idle has also published The Lion Book of Favorite Hymns (1980) and at least one hundred of his own hymns and biblical paraphrases. Some of his texts first appeared in hymnals published by the Jubilate Group, with which he is associated. He was also editor of Anglican Praise (1987). In 1998 Hope Publishing released Light Upon the River, a collection of 279 of his psalm and hymn texts, along with suggested tunes, scripture references, and commentary. Bert Polman

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Composer of "KANCIONAL NEW" in Psalms for All Seasons Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong