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Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 455 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Come, sinners, to the gospel feast; let every soul be Jesus' guest. Ye need not one be left behind, for God hath bid all humankind. 2. Sent by my Lord, on you I call; the invitation is to all. Come, all the world! Come, sinner, thou! All things in Christ are ready now. 3. Come, all ye souls by sin oppressed, ye restless wanderers after rest; ye poor, and maimed, and halt, and blind, in Christ a hearty welcome find. 4. My message as from God receive; ye all may come to Christ and live. O let his love your hearts constrain, nor suffer him to die in vain. 5. This is the time, no more delay! This is the Lord's accepted day. Come thou, this moment, at his call, and live for him who died for all. Topics: Prevenient Grace Invitation; Call to the Christian Life; Christian Experience; Jesus Christ Atonement; Salvation Scripture: Luke 14:16-24 Used With Tune: HURSLEY

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty

Author: Reginald Heber Meter: 11.12.12.10 Appears in 1,644 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity! 2. Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be. 3. Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see, only thou art holy; there is none beside thee, perfect in power, in love and purity. 4. Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth and sky and sea. Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity. Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Praise and Thanksgiving; Particular Times of Worship Morning; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year Trinity Sunday; Holy Communion; Processionals; Service Music Doxology; Trinity Scripture: Revelation 4:8-11 Used With Tune: NICAEA

Now Thank We All Our God

Author: Martin Rinkart; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 688 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. 2. O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; and keep us still in grace, and guide us when perplexed; and free us from all ills, in this world and the next. 3. All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given; the Son, and him who reigns with them in highest heaven; the one eternal God, whom earth and heaven adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. Topics: The Glory of the Triune God God's Nature; The Glory of the Triune God God's Nature; Adoration and Praise; Children's Choir Selections; Christian Year Thanksgiving Day; Gratitude; Guidance; Processionals; Providence; Service Music Doxology; Service Music Following Communion; Table Graces Scripture: Sirach 50:22-24 Used With Tune: NUN DANKET

Joy to the World

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1,860 hymnals 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 world, 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 sins and sorrows 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. Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ; Joy; Opening Hymns Scripture: Psalm 98:4-9 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Canticle of Wisdom

Author: Henry Sloane Coffin Appears in 509 hymnals First Line: O come, thou Wisdom from on high Refrain First Line: O come, thou Wisdom from on high Topics: The Glory of the Triune God God's Nature; Canticles Used With Tune: [O come, thou Wisdom from on high]

When Morning Gilds the Skies

Author: Edward Caswall; Robert S. Bridges Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 700 hymnals Lyrics: 1. When morning gilds the skies my heart awaking cries: May Jesus Christ be praised! Alike at work and prayer, to Jesus I repair: May Jesus Christ be praised! 2. The night becomes as day when from the heart we say: May Jesus Christ be praised! The powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear: May Jesus Christ be praised! 3. Let all the earth around ring joyous with the sound: May Jesus Christ be praised! In heaven's eternal bliss the loveliest strain is this: May Jesus Christ be praised! 4. Be this, while life is mine, my canticle divine: May Jesus Christ be praised! Be this th' eternal song through all the ages long: May Jesus Christ be praised! Topics: The Glory of the Triune God Praise and Thanksgiving; The Grace of Jesus Christ In Praise of Christ; Particular Times of Worship Morning; Jesus Christ; Responses, Antiphonal Used With Tune: LAUDES DOMINI Text Sources: Katholisches Gesangbuch, Vienna, ca. 1774

Crown Him with Many Crowns

Author: Matthew Bridges; Godfrey Thring Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 798 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne. Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity. 2. Crown him the Lord of life, who triumphed o'er the grave, and rose victorious in the strife for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, who died, and rose on high, who died, eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die. 3. Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a scepter sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and praise. His reign shall know no end, and round his pierced feet fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 4. Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, those wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified. All hail, Redeemer, hail! For thou hast died for me; thy praise and glory shall not fail throughout eternity. Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Resurrection and Exaltation; Particular Times of Worship Special Days; Christian Year Easter; Christian Year Ascension; Christian Year Christ the King; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ Lordship; Peace, World; Processionals; Testimony and Witness Scripture: Revelation 19:12 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

Jesu, Jesu

Author: Tom Colvin Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 64 hymnals First Line: Kneels at the feet of his friends Refrain First Line: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love Lyrics: [Refrain:] Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you. 1 Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet, Master who acts as a slave to them. (Refrain) 2 Neighbors are rich and poor, neighbors are black and white, neighbors are near and far away. (Refrain) 3 These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you. (Refrain) 4 Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are slaves, this is the way we should live with you. (Refrain) 5 Kneel at the feet of our friends, silently washing their feet, this is the way we should live with you. (Refrain) Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Life and Teaching; Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Social Holiness; Biblical Narrative; Christian Year Holy Week; Discipleship and Service; Jesus Christ Example Scripture: John 13:1-17 Used With Tune: CHEREPONI

Soldiers of Christ, Arise

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 895 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put your armor on, strong in the strength which God supplies thru his eternal Son; strong in the Lord of Hosts, and in his mighty power, who in the strength of Jesus trusts is more than conqueror. 2. Stand then in his great might, with all his strength endued, but take to arm you for the fight the panoply of God; that having all things done, and all your conflicts passed, ye may o'ercome thru Christ alone and stand entire at last. 3. Pray without ceasing, pray, (your Captain gives the word) his summons cheerfully obey and call upon the Lord; to God your every want in instant prayer display, pray always, pray and never faint, pray, without ceasing pray. 4. From strength to strength go on, wrestle and fight and pray, tread all the powers of darkness down and win the well-fought day. Still let the Spirit cry in all his soldiers, "Come!" till Christ the Lord descends from high and takes the conquerors home. Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Strength in Triublation; Closing Hymns; Zeal Scripture: Ephesians 6:13-18 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

How Firm a Foundation

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,131 hymnals First Line: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord Lyrics: 1. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent word! What more can he say than to you he hath said, to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 2. "Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, for I am thy God and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 3. "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, the rivers of woe shall not thee overflow; for I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 4. "When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie, my grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply; the flame shall not hurt thee; I only design thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 5. “The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose, I will not, I will not desert to its foes; that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I’ll never, no, never, no, never forsake.” Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Strength in Triublation; Assurance; Church Education; Comfort; Faith; Grief; Trust Scripture: Isaiah 43:1-2 Used With Tune: FOUNDATION Text Sources: "K" in Rippon's Selection of Hymns, 1787