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"Take Up Your Cross," the Savior Said

Author: Charles W. Everest Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 296 hymnals Matching Instances: 39 Scripture: Matthew 16:24 Lyrics: 1 "Take up your cross," the Savior said, "if you would my disciple be; take up your cross with willing heart, and humbly follow after me." 2 Take up your cross; let not its weight fill your weak soul with vain alarm; his strength shall bear your spirit up, and brace your heart and nerve your arm. 3 Take up your cross; nor heed the shame, and let your foolish pride be still; your Lord refused not e'en to die upon a cross, on Calv'ry's hill. 4 Take up your cross, then, in his strength, and calmly sin's wild deluge brave; 'twill guide you to a better home, it points to glory o'er the grave. 5 Take up your cross, and follow on, nor think till death to lay it down; for only he who bears the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown. Topics: The Christian Life Tribulation and Suffering; Christian Service; Crown of Life; Self-Denial Used With Tune: QUEBEC

Onward, Christian Soldiers

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 1,792 hymnals Matching Instances: 20 Scripture: Matthew 16:18 Lyrics: 1 Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go! Refrain: Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. 2 Like a mighty army moves the church of God; let us boldly follow where the saints have trod. We are not divided; all one body we one in hope and doctrine, one in charity. Refrain 3 Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane, but the church of Jesus constant will remain; gates of hell can never 'gainst that church prevail. We have Christ's own promise, and that cannot fail. Refrain 4 Onward, then, O people, join our happy throng: blend with ours your voices in the triumph song. Glory, laud, and honor unto Christ the King, we through countless ages with the angels sing. Refrain Topics: Cross of Christ; Reformation; Warfare, Spiritual; Songs for Children Hymns; Church and Mission; Church; Cross of Christ; Kingdom; Missions; Reformation; Warfare, Spiritual Used With Tune: ST. GERTRUDE

Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken

Author: Henry F. Lyte Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,302 hymnals Matching Instances: 13 Scripture: Matthew 16:24 Topics: Following Christ; Jerusalem; Persecution Of Believers; Post-Communion Service; Profession of Faith; Renunciation; Suffering With Christ; Commitment To Christ Used With Tune: ELLISDIE

Built on the Rock

Author: Nikolai F. S. Grundtvig; Carl Döving Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 73 hymnals Matching Instances: 12 Scripture: Matthew 16:18 First Line: Built on the Rock, the church shall stand Lyrics: 1 Built on the Rock, the church shall stand even when steeples are falling; Christ builds his church in every land; bells still are chiming and calling, calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls of those distressed, longing for life everlasting. 2 Not in a temple made with hands God the Almighty is dwelling; high in the heavens his temple stands, all earthly temples excelling. Yet he who dwells in heaven above chooses to live with us in love, making our bodies his temple. 3 We are God's house of living stones, built for his own habitation; he fills our hearts, his humble thrones, granting us life and salvation. Yet to this place, an earthly frame, we come with thanks to praise his name; God grants his people true blessing. Topics: Anniversaries; Love God's Love to Us; Church and Mission; Anniversaries; Assurance; Church; Heritage; Love God's Love to Us Used With Tune: KIRKEN

The Church's One Foundation

Author: Samuel J. Stone Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 856 hymnals Matching Instances: 12 Scripture: Matthew 16:18 Lyrics: 1 The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord; she is his new creation, by water and the word: from heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. 2 Elect from every nation, yet one o’er all the earth, her charter of salvation; one Lord, one faith, one birth; one holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food, and to one hope she presses with every grace endued. 3 'Though with a scornful wonder we see her sore oppressed, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed: yet saints their watch are keeping, their cry goes up, “How long?” and soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song. 4 ’Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war, she waits the consummation of peace forevermore, till with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blest, and the great Church victorious shall be the Church at rest. 5 Yet she on earth hath union with God, the Three in One, and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won: O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee. Topics: Church Fellowship; Church Fellowship; Church Heritage; Church Nature; Church Unity; Church Final Victory; Eternal Life; Jesus Christ Bridegroom Used With Tune: AURELIA

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,288 hymnals Matching Instances: 9 Scripture: Matthew 16:18 Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God; he whose word cannot be broken formed thee for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, thou mayst smile at all thy foes. 2 See the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply thy sons and daughters, and all fear of want remove: who can faint, while such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage?-- grace which, like the Lord, the giver, never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering, showing that the Lord is near! Thus they march, the pillar leading, light by night and shade by day, daily on the manna feeding which he gives them when they pray. 4 Savior, since of Zion's city I through grace a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name; fading is the world's best pleasure, all its boasted pomp and show; solid joys and lasting treasure none but Zion's children know. Topics: Church Nature; Jesus Christ Foundation; Pilgrimage Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN

Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?

Author: Thomas Shepherd Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,193 hymnals Matching Instances: 8 Scripture: Matthew 16:24 First Line: Must Jesus bear the cross alone Lyrics: 1 Must Jesus bear the cross alone, and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for everyone, and there's a cross for me. 2 The consecrated cross I'll bear, till death shall set me free, and then go home my crown to wear, for there's a crown for me. 3 O precious cross! O glorious crown! O resurrection day!-- when Christ the Lord from heaven comes down and bears my soul away. Topics: Cross of Believers; Crowns; Christian Service Used With Tune: MAITLAND

Where He Leads Me

Author: E. W. Blandy Appears in 762 hymnals Matching Instances: 7 Scripture: Matthew 16:24 First Line: I can hear my Savior calling Lyrics: 1 I can hear my Savior calling, I can hear my Savior calling, I can hear my Savior calling, “Take thy cross and follow, follow Me.” Chorus: Where He leads me I will follow, Where He leads me I will follow, Where He leads me I will follow, I’ll go with Him, with Him all the way. 2 I’ll go with Him thro' the garden, I’ll go with Him thro' the garden, I’ll go with Him thro' the garden, I’ll go with Him, with Him all the way. (Chorus) 3 I’ll go with Him thro' the judgment, I’ll go with Him thro' the judgment, I’ll go with Him thro' the judgment, I’ll go with Him, with Him all the way. (Chorus) 4 He will give me grace and glory, He will give me grace and glory, He will give me grace and glory, And go with me, with me all the way. (Chorus) Topics: Cross of Believer; Cross of Believer Used With Tune: [I can hear my Savior calling]

New every morning is the love

Author: John Keble (1792-1866) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 360 hymnals Matching Instances: 7 Scripture: Matthew 16:24 Lyrics: 1 New every morning is the love our wakening and uprising prove, through sleep and darkness safely brought, restored to life, and power, and thought. 2 New mercies, each returning day, hover around us while we pray, -- new perils past, new sins forgiven, new thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. 3 If, on our daily course, our mind be set to hallow all we find, new treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. 4 The trivial round, the common task, will furnish all we ought to ask, -- room to deny ourselves, a road to bring us daily nearer God. 5 Prepare us, Lord, in your dear love, for perfect life with you above; and help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in the morning and evening; God in daily living; Prayer Used With Tune: TRURO

Will You Come and Follow Me

Appears in 42 hymnals Matching Instances: 5 Scripture: Matthew 16:28 First Line: [Will You Come and Follow Me] Text Sources: Wonder Love and Praise: Supplement to Hymnal 1982 (Church Publishing Incorporated, 1997)