We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear

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[We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear]

Author: Thomas H. Troeger
Tune: THIRD MODE MELODY
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Six General Hymn Improvisations, Set 3

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Author: Thomas H. Troeger

Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of… Go to person page >

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First Line:	[We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear]
Title:	We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear
Author:	Thomas H. Troeger
Source:	New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford University Press, 1986)
Language:	English

Mark 2:1-12
(hymns)

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THIRD MODE MELODY

THIRD MODE MELODY is the third of nine tunes Thomas Tallis composed for Matthew Parker's The Whole Psalter (c. 1561). This magnificent tune is worth the trouble it may take to learn. Diephouse set the text with this tune in mind, since it kept coming to him as he was working on the text. Many may kn…

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