The breadth of Biblical theology encompassed in this single song is vast. Anyone who knows their Bible stories will be able to go through it line by line and be able to recognise episodes from which Evans might have found inspiration.
It’s filled with Biblical references and allusions.
The hymn is both profound and very simple. Published in 1986, it made it into the Church of Ireland’s book Irish Church Praise by 1990-just four years in a church that took two hundred years to officially allow some of Wesley’s hymns to be sung! The Top Ten includes a number of old favourites, Guide me, O thou great redeemer, “Love divine all loves excelling, “The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended and “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, but amongst the favourites now are also hymns which are much more recent, including this morning’s choice, “Be still, for the presence of the Lord, the holy one is here.ĭave Evans the writer of both the words and music of the song is fifty this year, but was only in his twenties when he wrote a hymn that immediately gained very widespread popularity.
#PRESENCE OF THE LORD SERIES#
Saint Matthias’ Church: Summer sermon series 2007, Sunday 24th JuneīBC’s ‘Songs of Praise’ programme has a poll from time to time as to which hymns are people’s favourites.
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