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LORD, Our Lord, Your Glorious Name

Meter: 7.7.7.6 with refrain Appears in 37 hymnals Topics: Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October, 2-8 Refrain First Line: LORD, our Lord, in all the earth Lyrics: 1 LORD, our Lord, your glorious name all your wondrous works proclaim; in the heavens with radiant signs evermore your glory shines. How great your name! Refrain: LORD, our Lord, in all the earth, how great your name! Yours the name of matchless worth, excellent in all the earth. How great your name! 2 Infant voices chant your praise, telling of your glorious ways; weakest means work out your will, mighty enemies to still. How great your name! [Refrain] 3 Moon and stars in shining height nightly tell their Maker's might; when I view the heavens afar, then I know how small we are. How great your name! [Refrain] 4 Who are we that we should share in your love and tender care-- raised to an exalted height, crowned with honor in your sight! How great your name! [Refrain] 5 With dominion crowned, we stand o'er the creatures of your hand; all to us subjection yield, in the sea and air and field. How great your name! [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 8 Used With Tune: EVENING PRAISE Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Church of God, elect and glorious

Author: J. E. Seddon (1915-1983) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 21 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 2 The People of God Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9-11 Used With Tune: LUX EOI

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us

Author: J. Edmeston (1791-1867) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 358 hymnals Topics: God's Church Conflict and Endurance; The Remnant of Israel; Lent 1, The King and the Kingdom Temptation; Lent 2, The King and the Kingdom Conflict; Trinity Sunday The Trinity; Pentecost 4 The Freedom God Gives; Pentecost 8 The Fruit of the Spirit; Pentecost 9 The Whole Armour of God; Pentecost 13 The Suffering Community; Pentecost 20 Endurance Used With Tune: MANNHEIM

When in the Night I Meditate

Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2 First Line: When in the night I meditate Lyrics: 1 When in the night I meditate on mercies multiplied, my grateful heart inspires my tongue to bless the LORD, my guide. 2 Forever in my thought the LORD before my face shall stand; secure, unmoved, I shall remain, with God at my right hand. 3 My inmost being thrills with joy and gladness fills my breast; because on him my trust is stayed, my flesh in hope shall rest. 4 I know that I shall not be left forgotten in the grave, and from corruption, thou, O LORD, thy holy one will save. 5 The path of life thou showest me; of joy a boundless store is ever found at thy right hand, and pleasures evermore. Scripture: Psalm 16 Used With Tune: MAITLAND Text Sources: Psalter, 1912

Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers

Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 394 hymnals Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Christian Year Pentecost; God House, Home; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Illumination; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Work; Light; Petition; Prayer; Sacrifice; Lent 5 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Epiphany 2 Year B; Epiphany 7 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Proper 15 Year B; Proper 21 Year B; Pentecost Year C Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, attend our prayers, and make this house your home; descend with all your gracious powers: O come, great Spirit, come! 2 Come as the light: to us reveal our emptiness and woe; and lead us in those paths of life where all the righteous go. 3 Come as the wind: sweep clean away what dead within us lies, and search and freshen all our souls with living energies. 4 Come as the fire and purge our hearts like sacrificial flame; let our whole soul an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 5 Spirit divine, attend our prayers; make a lost world your home; descend with all your gracious powers, O come, great Spirit, come! Used With Tune: GRÄFENBURG

O Jesus, I have promised

Author: J. E. Bode (1816-1874) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 628 hymnals Topics: God's Church Conflict and Endurance; Lent 1, The King and the Kingdom Temptation; Lent 2, The King and the Kingdom Conflict; Lent 3, The King and the Kingdom Suffering; Easter 3 The Lakeside; Pentecost 3 The Life of the Baptized; Pentecost 9 The Whole Armour of God; Pentecost 13 The Suffering Community; Pentecost 20 Endurance Lyrics: 1 O Jesus, I have promised to serve you to the end — be now and ever near me, my Master and my Friend: I shall not fear the battle if you are by my side, nor wander from the pathway if you will be my guide. 2 O let me feel you near me, the world is ever near; I see the sights that dazzle, the tempting sounds I hear; my foes are ever near me, around me and within; but Jesus, draw still nearer and shield my soul from sin! 3 O let me hear you speaking in accents clear and still; above the storms of passion, the murmurs of self-will: O speak to reassure me, to hasten or control; and speak to make me listen, O Guardian of my soul. 4 O let me see your footmarks and in them place my own; my hope to follow truly is in your strength alone: O guide me, call me, draw me, uphold me to the end; and then in heaven receive me, my Saviour and my Friend. Used With Tune: WOLVERCOTE

Welcome, Happy Morning

Author: Venantius Fortunatus; John Ellerton Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 282 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Easter; Hymns Suitable for Use with Children; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Easter; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Morning; Satan/Demonic Forces/Devil; Seasons Changing; Easter 2 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Easter 1 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Easter 1 Year C; Ascension Year C; Pentecost Year C First Line: Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say Lyrics: 1 Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say; hell today is vanquished, heaven is won today: come then, True and Faithful, now fulfil your word; this is your third morning: rise, O buried Lord! [Refrain:] Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say, hell today is vanquished, heaven is won today! 2 Earth with joy welcomes, clothes itself for spring; greets with life reviving our returning king: flowers in every pasture, leaves on every bough; speak of sorrows ended, Jesus triumphs now! [Refrain] 3 Author and sustainer, source of life and breath; you for our salvation trod the path of death: Jesus Christ is living, God for evermore!, Now let all creation hail him and adore. [Refrain] 4 Loose our souls imprisoned, bound with Satan's chain; all that now is fallen, raise to life again! Show your face in brightness, shine the whole world through; hope returns with daybreak, life returns with you. [Refrain] Used With Tune: HERMAS Text Sources: Rev. Hymns for Today's Church, 1982

How firm a foundation, you people of God

Author: R. Keen (c.1787) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,149 hymnals Topics: God's Church Faith and Trust; Advent 2 The Word of God in the Old Testament; Lent 2, The King and the Kingdom Conflict; Lent 3, The King and the Kingdom Suffering; Pentecost 17 The Proof of Faith; Pentecost 19 The Life of Faith Used With Tune: MONTGOMERY

The Lord is king! Lift up your voice

Author: J. Conder (1789-1855) Appears in 256 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Ascended and Reigning; The Creation; Easter 2 The Emmaus Road; The Ascension of Christ; Trinity Sunday, The Trinity Psalm; Pentecost 13 The Suffering Community; Pentecost 22 The Two Ways Lyrics: 1 The Lord is king! Lift up your voice, O earth, and all you heavens, rejoice; from world to world the joy shall ring: 'The Lord omnipotent is king!' 2 The Lord is king! Who then shall dare resist his will, distrust his care, or quarrel with his wise decrees, or doubt his royal promises? 3 The Lord is king! Child of the dust, the judge of all the earth is just; holy and true are all his ways — let every creature speak his praise! 4 God reigns! He reigns with glory crowned: let Christians make a joyful sound! And Christ is seated at his side: the man of love, the crucified. 5 Come, make your needs, your burdens known: he will present them at the throne; and angel hosts are waiting there his messages of love to bear. 6 One Lord one kingdom all secures: he reigns, and life and death are yours; through earth and heaven one song shall ring: 'The Lord omnipotent is king!' Scripture: Psalm 97 Used With Tune: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT

God of grace and God of glory

Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 155 hymnals Topics: Christian unity; Confirmation; Faith, Trust and Commitment; Grace and Providence; Pentecost; The Serving Community; The Wholeness of Creation; Year A Epiphany 2; Year A Proper 2; Year A Sunday Next Before Lent; Year B Proper 16; Year B Proper 4; Year C Proper 15 Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-17 Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE