Forever Bound by Endless Love: New Reinhardt Hymn!

ONTARIO – Rev. Kurt E. Reinhardt’s Forever Bound by Endless Love is a hymn of comfort and consolation to those who are facing the death of a loved one. Reinhardt is a hymnwriter and pastor in Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s East Region, serving Trinity Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, Ontario.

Reinhardt’s 2021 volume of poetry entitled My Light and My Salvation features “Baptismal Waters Cover Me”, which you may recognize as Hymn 616 in the Lutheran Service Book. Other recent writings from Pastor Reinhardt include When Life’s Great Trials Cast You Down, which is featured on the back cover of the latest issue of The Canadian Lutheran magazine; Good Shepherd Shelter Now Your Sheep, written in response to the unprecedented situation brought about by the pandemic and sung by Reinhardt’s daughter, Beatrice, available on LCC’s YouTube Channel here; as well as Their Stolen Children Have Been Found, which he dedicates to the 215 Indigenous children buried beside the former Residential School in Kamloops, BC.

The words to Forever Bound by Endless Love are available as a printable PDF, downloadable from LCC’s website on both the Church Worker Wellness Page and the Suicide Safety and The Church Page. The photo included in this poster version was taken by Anna Kraemer, LCC’s Communications Intern for the summer of 2021.

Forever Bound by Endless Love

Forever bound by endless love,
That flows eternally above
And binds the Father to the Son
With God’s own Spirit three in one.

The Saints shall not be torn apart;
They’re joined together heart to heart
By love that sent God’s own Son down
To wear the cross’s thorny crown.

Death’s dark divide love did defeat
When nails did pierce Christ’s hands and feet;
He filled its chasm with God’s life
And ended sin’s dividing strife.

When on this world we close our eyes,
And rise with Christ to heaven’s skies,
We leave behind no loved ones dear;
In Christ we are forever near.

As one Church gathers ‘round the Lamb
In worship of the Lord, I AM,
The love of God in cup and bread
Unites the Living with the dead.