476. Crashing Waters at Creation

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Text Information
First Line: Crashing waters at creation
Title: Crashing Waters at Creation
Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan (1987)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Baptism; Christian Year: Baptism of Jesus; Creation (2 more...)
Copyright: © 1991 GIA Publications, Inc.
Tune Information
Name: CRASHING WATERS
Composer: William A. Cross (1992)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Key: f minor
Copyright: © 1994 William A. Cross


Text Information:

Like the Thanksgiving Over the Water in the rite of Baptism, this text by a United Church of Canada minister recalls significant events in salvation history involving water. The final stanza is a prayer to Christ, the Living Water (John 4:10, 14), to quench our spiritual thirst.


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