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We Will Extol You, God and King

Author: Greg Scheer Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12 Refrain First Line: One generation will call to the next Scripture: Psalm 145 Used With Tune: SCARECROW

Lord Jesus, when your people meet

Author: W. Cowper (1731-1800) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 519 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Lyrics: 1 Lord Jesus, when your people meet they come before your mercy-seat; where you are sought, you shall be found, and every place is holy ground. 2 Your presence, by no walls confined, is known within the humble mind; the meek will bring you where they come, and going take your to their home. 3 Great Shepherd of your chosen few, your former mercies here renew; here to our waiting hearts proclaim the greatness of your saving name. 4 Here may we prove the power of prayer to strengthen faith and sweeten care; to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heaven before our eyes. 5 Lord, we are few, but you are near; your arm can save, your ear can hear; break through the heavens, come quickly down, and make a thousand hearts your own! Used With Tune: WAREHAM

Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim

Author: G. W. Kitchin (1827-1912); M. R. Newbolt (1874-1956) Meter: 10.10 with refrain Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community First Line: Come, Christians, follow where the captain trod Lyrics: Refrain: Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till all the world adores his sacred name! 1 Come, Christians, follow where the captain trod, the king victorious, Christ the Son of God: [Refrain] 2 Each new-born soldier of the crucified is signed with the cross, the seal of him who died: [Refrain] 3 This is the sign that Satan's armies fear and angels veil their faces to revere: [Refrain] 4 Saved by the cross on which their Lord was slain, see Adam's children their lost home regain: [Refrain] 5 From north and south, from east and west they raise in growing unison their songs of praise: [Refrain] 6 Let every race and every language tell of him who saves our souls from death and hell! [Refrain] 7 O Lord, once lifted on the tree of pain, draw all the world to seek you once again: [Refrain] 8 Set up your throne, that earth's despair may cease beneath the shadow of its healing peace: [Refrain] Used With Tune: CRUCIFER

God, whose almighty word

Author: J. Marriott (1780-1825) Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 452 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Lyrics: 1 God, whose almighty word, chaos and darkness heard, and took their flight: hear us, we humbly pray, and where the gospel-day sheds not its glorious ray, let there be light! 2 Saviour, who came to bring on your redeeming wing healing and sight, health to the sick in mind, sight to the inly blind: O now to all mankind let there be light! 3 Spirit of truth and love, life-giving, holy dove, speed forth your flight! move on the water's face bearing the lamp of grace and, in earth's darkest place let there be light! 4 Gracious and holy Three, glorious Trinity, wisdom, love, might: boundless as ocean's tide rolling in fullest pride through the world far and wide, let there be light! Scripture: Genesis 1:3 Used With Tune: MOSCOW

Joy to the World!

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeat Appears in 1,911 hymnals Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12 First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love. Scripture: Psalm 98 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Lift up your heads, you gates of brass!

Author: J. Montgomery (1771-1854) Appears in 96 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Scripture: Psalm 107:16 Used With Tune: LONDON NEW

Lord, speak to me that I may speak

Author: Frances R. Havergal (1836-1879) Appears in 471 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Lyrics: 1 Lord, speak to me that I may speak in living echoes of your tone; as you have sought, so let me seek your wandering children, lost, alone. 2 O lead me, Lord, that I may lead the stumbling and the straying feet; and feed me, Lord, that I may feed your hungry ones with manna sweet. 3 O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious truths which you impart; and wing my words that they may reach the hidden depths of many a heart. 4 O fill me with your fullness, Lord, until my heart shall overflow in kindling thought and glowing word, your love to tell, your praise to show. 5 O use me Lord, use even me, just as you will, and when, and where; until at last your face I see, your rest, your joy, your glory share. Used With Tune: EISENACH

We have a gospel to proclaim

Author: Edward Burns (born 1938) Appears in 25 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Used With Tune: FULDA

You servants of God, your master proclaim

Author: C. Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 683 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Lyrics: 1 You servants of God, your master proclaim, and publish abroad his wonderful name; the name all-victorious of Jesus extol, his kingdom is glorious, and rules over all. 2 God rules in the height, almighty to save — though hid from our sight, his presence we have; the great congregation his triumph shall sing, ascribing salvation to Jesus our king. 3 'Salvation to God who sits on the throne!' let all cry aloud, and honour the Son; the praises of Jesus the angels proclaim, fall down on their faces and worship the Lamb. 4 Then let us adore and give him his right: all glory and power, all wisdom and might, all honour and blessing - with angels above — and thanks never ceasing, and infinite love. Used With Tune: PADERBORN

For all the saints, who from their labours rest

Author: W. W. How (1823-1897) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 593 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 12 The Witnessing Community Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE