Wind of God, dynamic Spirit

Wind of God, dynamic Spirit. Michael Saward (1932-2015) This hymn on the Holy Spirit was originally written in May 1966 as a one-stanza hymn for a ‘People’s Service’ on BBC Radio 2 on Whitsunday 1966. Saward added two further stanzas in November 1968, ‘Voice of God, prophetic Spirit’, and ‘Fire of God, titanic Spirit’. It appeared as ‘Fire of God, titanic Spirit’ in Youth Praise 2 (1969). The word ‘titanic’ was later changed to ‘volcanic’, to meet objections from Saward’s Jubilate Hymns* colleagues, but retaining the ‘Fire’ imagery from Acts 2. The current text, dating from 1998, begins with the ‘Wind of God’ stanza, also from Acts 2. It has been published in some 20 books. A tune,...