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Lord, Make Us Instruments
Author: St. Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; Kirk Dearman, 1952-; Deby Dearman, 1953- Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Oppression First Line: Where there is hatred, we will sow your love Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Used With Tune: [Where there is hatred, we will sow your love]
Lord, Make Us Instruments
Friend of the Streetwalker
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression First Line: Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child Lyrics: 1 Friend of the streetwalker, beggar, and child,
lifting and blessing the weak and reviled,
welcoming those the devout turned away:
Jesus, we need your example today.
2 Take from us prejudice, hatred, and scorn,
fear and suspicion of anyone born
outside our fences of money and race:
help us, O God, not to shun but embrace.
3 Open our hearts and our heads and our hands,
let us experience how caring expands
past all the labels and limits we learn:
Spirit of mercy, enlarge our concern.
4 Three-personed Mystery, multiple One,
joined by diversity never undone:
may we more truly your image reveal,
coming together to make your love real.
Scripture: Matthew 25:37-41 Used With Tune: MYRRH-BEARING MARY
Friend of the Streetwalker
Till All the Jails Are Empty
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 7.6.8.6 D with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression Refrain First Line: God has work for us to do Lyrics: 1 Till all the jails are empty
and all the bellies filled;
till no one hurts or steals or lies,
and no more blood is spilled:
till age and race and gender
no longer separate;
till pulpit, press, and politics
are free of greed and hate:
Refrain:
God has work for us to do.
2 In tenement and mansion,
in fact'ry, farm, and mill,
in boardroom and in billiard hall,
in wards where time stands still,
in classroom, church, and office,
in shops or on the street;
in every place where people thrive
or starve or hide or meet: [Refrain]
3 By sitting at a bedside
to hold pale trembling hands,
by speaking for the powerless
against unjust demand,
by praying through our doing
and singing though we fear,
by trusting that the seed we sow
will bring God's harvest near: [Refrain] Scripture: Luke 4:16-21 Used With Tune: WORK TO DO
Till All the Jails Are Empty
Warning to Magistrates
Author: Watts Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Oppressed First Line: Judges, who rule the world by laws Scripture: Psalm 58 Used With Tune: FOREST
Warning to Magistrates
Christ's Word to Us
Author: Jane Parker Huber, 1926-2008 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Oppression First Line: Christ's word to us is like a burning fire Scripture: Luke 24:30-35 Used With Tune: WOODLANDS
Christ's Word to Us
Let Justice Roll like a River
Author: Marty Haugen, 1950- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Oppression First Line: How long shall we wait, O God Scripture: Amos 5:24 Used With Tune: [How long shall we wait, O God]
Let Justice Roll like a River
For those in bonds as bound with them
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Oppressed Used With Tune: ARMENIA
For those in bonds as bound with them
Through All the World a Hungry Christ
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Oppression Lyrics: 1 Through all the world a hungry Christ
must scavenge far for daily bread,
must beg the rich for crumb and crust.
We are the rich, the daily fed.
2 Beyond the church a leper Christ
takes each untouchable by hand,
gives hope to those who have no trust,
whose stigma is our social brand.
3 In torture cell, a pris'ner Christ
for justice and for truth must cry
to free the innocent oppressed
while we at liberty pass by.
4 We do not know you, beggar Christ,
we do not recognize your sores,
we do not see, for we are blind:
forgive us, touch us, make us yours.
Used With Tune: BOURBON
Through All the World a Hungry Christ
Beauty for Brokenness
Author: Graham Kendrick, 1950- Meter: 6.4.6.4 D with refrain Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Oppression First Line: Beauty for brokenness Refrain First Line: God of the poor, friend of the weak Used With Tune: GOD OF THE POOR
Beauty for Brokenness
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