This page is provided so that you can hear the tunes of items which we use in church. Mostly they are written by the vicar. Please note that they are copyright - we are very happy to give permission to you to use them, but we would like to hear about it. Please include any use on your Christian Copyright Licence returns.
Down this page:
- the words,
- the story,
- the sheet music,
- media player.
This is love
This is love
This is how God showed his love:
he sent his only Son
into this world, that we might live
through him, the Holy One.
Love is not that we loved God.
Our faint and poor response
is nought compared with his great deed
upon the cross just once.
All mankind was trapped in sin,
with rescue too high-priced
for us to pay: so God's own Son
was sent to be our Christ.
On that cross he took for us
the death we should have paid,
so life is ours and death was his.
This covenant he made.
God so loved us, therefore we
should love each other too.
For God cannot be seen, but he
lives in us when we do.
Words and tune copyright © John Hartley 2007.
Based on 1 John 4:10-12.
Story behind the song
I resolved to press ahead with this song after reading an article by Stuart Townend entitled "how to write hymns" - you can find it on the Mission-Worship web site. It's basically a simple attempt to cast a profound short bible passage into verse form.
John Hartley.
Windows Media Player. When you click the left-hand "play" button your computer should have started to play the tune. If it didn't, you might be able to get the tune by clicking here, or by right-clicking the link, choosing "save target as", saving it onto your computer, and then opening it with a music-playing program.
Please remember that a midi file of a tune isn't supposed to be a state-of-the-art musical arrangement - it is only supposed to give a basic idea of how the tune goes. Any reasonable organist / keyboard player / music group could make it sound far better.