This week I combined the strange words of Jesus recorded in Luke 12: 49 -56 with the hymn tune "Lewis-Town" by William Billings (1746 - 1800). This is not a hymn tune that is used in The Salvation Army's songbook (at least not in its current version. There is, apparently, a newly revised version to be coming out in the near future...) I found it in the Lutheran Book of Worship #426 (O Son of God, in Galilee)
He Said Many Hard Things
And to the crowd that
gathered there
he said many hard things:
I came to bring fire to the world
and would that it now burned.
he said many hard things:
I came to bring fire to the world
and would that it now burned.
And to the crowd that gathered there
he said many hard things:
think I have come to bring you peace?
No, I came to divide.
And to the crowd that
gathered there
he said many hard things:
you read the signs set in the sky,
why can’t you read the times?
he said many hard things:
you read the signs set in the sky,
why can’t you read the times?
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