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"Love of God" is a song by Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham. It was released as a standalone single on June 28, 2024. [ 1 ] Lake and Wickham co-wrote the song with Benjamin William Hastings and Cody Carnes . [ 2 ]
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
Joyful Sounds, The New Children's Hymnal, Concordia Publishing House (1977) [310] Lutheran Worship, Concordia Publishing House (1982) [311] [312] All God's People Sing! Concordia Publishing House (1992) [313] Hymnal Supplement 98, Concordia Publishing House (1998) [314] [315] This Far By Faith: an African American resource for worship (1999) [268]
The love that asks no questions, the love that stands the test, That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best; [10] The love that never falters, the love that pays the price, The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice. And there's another country, I've heard of long ago, Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
Catholic artist Audrey Assad recorded a version of this hymn on her "Good to Me" EP in 2013. Nancy Bryan sings a version of this hymn on her album Neon Angel from 2000. Christian artist Fernando Ortega recorded a version on his album Hymns & Meditations in 1994; It has been covered by the David Crowder Band on their 1999 album All I Can Say.
Community of Christ Sings, the current Community of Christ hymnal, includes the Bolton–Pratt revision of this stanza as the third of four verses: How blessed the day when the lamb and the lion Shall lie down together in peace with a child. With one heart and mind may the Lord call us Zion: A people of justice, by God's love inspired! [15] [16 ...
The text of "Come down, O Love divine" originated as an Italian poem, "Discendi amor santo" by the medieval mystic poet Bianco da Siena (1350-1399). The poem appeared in the 1851 collection Laudi Spirituali del Bianco da Siena of Telesforo Bini, and in 1861, the Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer Richard Frederick Littledale translated it into English.
Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God. Love for God (philotheia) is associated with the concepts of worship, and devotions towards God.[1]The Greek term theophilia means the love or favour of God, [2] and theophilos means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God or loved by the gods; [3] [4] but is today sometimes understood in the sense of showing love ...