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Rejoice, the Lord Is King

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 743 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:22 Lyrics: 1 Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore. Rejoice, give thanks and sing and triumph evermore. Lift up your heart, lift up your voice. Rejoice, again I say, rejoice! 2 His kingdom cannot fail; he rules o'er earth and heaven; the keys of death and hell to Christ the Lord are given. Lift up your heart, lift up your voice. Rejoice, again I say, rejoice! 3 He sits at God's right hand till all his foes submit, bow down at his command, and fall beneath his feet. Lift up your heart, lift up your voice. Rejoice, again I say, rejoice! 4 Rejoice in glorious hope; for Christ, the Judge, shall come to gather all his saints to their eternal home. We soon shall hear the archangel's voice; the trump of God shall sound, rejoice! Topics: Singing God's Story Ascension and Reign of Christ Used With Tune: DARWALL'S 148TH

My dear Redeemer, and my Lord

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 575 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:21 Topics: Christ The Lamb; Christ Love of; Duty; Prayer; Temptation; Truth; Christ the Son Suffering and Death Used With Tune: HESPERUS

Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness

Author: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 500 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:13-22 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress; 'midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day; for who aught to my charge shall lay? Fully absolved through these I am from sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 3 Jesus, be endless praise to thee, whose boundless mercy hath for me– for me a full atonement made, an everlasting ransom paid. 4 O let the dead now hear thy voice; now bid thy banished ones rejoice; their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesus, thy blood and righteousness. Topics: Forgiveness; Salvation/Redemption; Jesus Christ Used With Tune: FULDA (WALTON)

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 494 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-19 First Line: Jesus Christ is ris'n today, Alleluia! Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ is ris'n today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! Who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia! 2 Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia! Unto Christ, our heav'nly King, Alleluia! Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia! 3 But the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation have procured; Alleluia! Now he reigns above as King, Alleluia! Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia! 4 Sing we to our God above, Alleluia! Praise eternal as his love, Alleluia! Praise him, all ye heav'nly host, Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia! Topics: The Liturgical Year Easter (Sundays and Weekdays) Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN Text Sources: Vs 1: Latin, 14th cetn.; Vs. 1 para: Lyra Davidica, 1708, alt.; Vs 2-3: The Compleat Psalmodist, ca. 1750

Christ's amazing love

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 480 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:22 First Line: Plunged in a gulf of dark despair Topics: Jesus Christ Sufferings and Death

The Heavens receive the Body of Jesus

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 450 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:22 First Line: Our Lord is risen from the dead Lyrics: 1 Our Lord is risen from the dead, Our Jesus is gone up on high; The powers of hell are captive led, Dragg'd to the portals of the sky. 2 There his triumphal chariot waits And angels chaunt the solemn lay; "Lift up your heads, ye heav'nly gates! Ye everlasting doors, give way!" 3 Loose all your bars of massy light, And wide unfold the radiant scene; He claims those mansions as his right, Receive the King of glory in. 4 "Who is the King of glory, who?" The Lord that all his foes o'ercame, The world, sin, death, and hell o'erthrew, And Jesus is the conq'ror's name. 5 Lo! his triumphal chariot waits, And angels chaunt the solemn lay, "Lift up your heads, he heav'nly gates! Ye everlasting doors, give way!" 6 "Who is the King of glory, who?" The Lord of boundless pow'r possest, The king of saints and angels too, God over all, forever blest! Topics: The Ascension of the King of Glory, leading Captivity Captive Text Sources: Wesley's Coll.

As pants the hart

Appears in 323 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-20 First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams Lyrics: 1 As pants the hart for cooling streams when heated in the chase, so longs my soul, O God, for thee and thy refreshing grace. 2 For thee, my God, the living God, my thirsty soul doth pine: oh when shall I behold thy face, thou majesty divine? 3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul? Trust God, who will employ sure aid for thee, and change these sighs to thankful hymns of joy. 4 God of my strength, how long shall I, like one forgotten, mourn, forlorn, forsaken and exposed to my oppressor's scorn? 5 Why restless, why cast down, my soul? Hope still, and thou shalt sing praise to thy God, the living God, thy health's eternal spring. Topics: Discouragement / Despair; Grace; Healing / Health; Hope; Lament; Longing for God and Christ; Metrical Psalms; Thirst; Trust Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM Text Sources: Paraphrase, Tate and Brady's New Version, 1696, alt.

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 316 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18 Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2 Here would I feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would I lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood; here is my robe, my refuge, and my peace — thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord, my God. 4 I have no help but thine; nor do I need another arm save thine to lean upon; it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; my strength is in thy might, thy might alone. 5 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear; the feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but thou art here, nearer than ever, still our shield and sun. 6 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and love. Topics: Holy Communion; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 16 Year B; Proper 23 Year A; Third Sunday Before Advent Year A Used With Tune: MAGDA

And can it be that I should gain

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Appears in 292 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18 Topics: Jesus Christ the Saviour: Lord of All Used With Tune: SAGINA

Welcome, Happy Morning

Author: Venantius Fortunatus, c. 530-609; John Ellerton, 1826-1893 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrain Appears in 283 hymnals Scripture: 1 Peter 3:19 First Line: "Welcome, happy morning!" Refrain First Line: "Welcome, happy morning!" Lyrics: 1 "Welcome, happy morning!" age to age shall say: "Hell today is vanquished; heav'n is won today!" Lo, the dead is living, God forevermore! Him, their true Creator, all his works adore. Refrain: "Welcome, happy morning!" age to age shall say: "Hell today is vanquished; heav'n is won today!" 2 Maker and Redeemer, life and health of all, God from heav'n beholding human nature's fall, of the Father's Godhead you, the only Son, mankind to deliver manhood did put on. [Refrain] 3 Source of all things living, you came down to die, plumbed the depths of hell to raise us up on high. Come, then, true and faithful, come fulfill your word; this is our third morning— rise, O buried Lord. [Refrain] 4 Free the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan's chain; all that now is fallen raise to life again. Show your face in brightness; shine in ev'ry land as in Eden's garden when the world began. [Refrain] Topics: Easter Used With Tune: SEI DU MIR GEGRÜSSET