More Favorite Hymns - We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator

Some of you who are old enough may remember a song from Glad titled Variations on a Hymn (or That Hymn Thing). It traced the possible progression of music for the hymn We Praise Thee, O God, Our Reedemer, Creator. Whether or not you agree with the view of development of Christian hymnody that Glad put forth in this song, I like the variations, especially the final "Glad" version. But the original tune is good as well.

We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer, Creator

1 We praise Thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator,

In grateful devotion our tribute we bring;

We lay it before Thee,

We kneel and adore Thee,

We bless Thy holy Name, glad praises we sing.

2 We worship Thee, God of our fathers, we bless Thee;

Thro’ life’s storm and tempest our Guide Thou hast been;

When perils o’ertake us,

Escape Thou wilt make us,

And with Thy help, O Lord, our battles we win.

3 With voices united our praises we offer,

To Thee, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise;

Thy strong arm will guide us,

Our God is beside us,

To Thee, our great Redeemer, forever be praise.

Eckert, P. (1998). Steve Green's MIDI hymnal : A complete toolkit for personal devotions and corporate worship. (Electronic ed.). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Cyberhymnal also includes the following verse for use at Christmas:

Thy love Thou didst show us, Thine only Son sending,
Who came as a Babe and Whose bed was a stall,
His blest life He gave us and then died to save us;
We praise Thee, O Lord, for Thy gift to us all.

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