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Savior, like a Shepherd Lead Us

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,141 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year Transfiguration; Guidance; Jesus Christ Life; Love of God for Us; Redemption; Trusting in the Promises of God Lyrics: 1 Savior, like a shepherd lead us; much we need your tender care. In your pleasant pastures feed us; for our use your fold prepare. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, you have bought us: we are yours. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, you have bought us: we are yours. 2 We are yours: in love befriend us; be the guardian of our way. Keep your flock: from sin defend us; seek us when we go astray. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, hear your children when we pray. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, hear your children when we pray. 3 You have promised to receive us, poor and sinful though we be; you have mercy to relieve us, grace to cleanse, and power to free. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, early let us turn to you. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, early let us turn to you. 4 Early let us seek your favor; early let us do your will. Blessed Lord and only Savior, with your love our spirits fill. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, you have loved us; love us still. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, you have loved us; love us still. Scripture: Psalm 23:1-3 Used With Tune: BRADBURY Text Sources: Thrupp’s Hymns for the Young, 1836, alt.

The Strife Is O'er

Author: Francis Pott, 1832-1909 Meter: 8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 496 hymnals Topics: The Celebration of the Gospel Story Easter; Christian Year Easter; Jesus Christ Crucifixion First Line: The strife is o'er, the battle done Refrain First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Lyrics: Refrain: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 1 The strife is o'er, the battle done; Now is the Victor's triumph won; Now be the song of praise begun: Alleluia! [Refrain] 2 Death's mightiest pow'rs have done their worst, And Jesus has His foes dispersed; Let shouts of praise and joy outburst: Alleluia! [Refrain] 3 He closed the yawning gates of hell; The bars from heav'n's high portals fell; Let hymns of praise His triumph tell: Alleluia! [Refrain] 4 On the third morn He rose again, Glorious in majesty to reign; O let us swell the joyful strain: Alleluia! [Refrain] Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Used With Tune: VICTORY Text Sources: Latin, 12th C.

Hope of the World

Author: Georgia Elma Harkness Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Reign of Christ; Church Ecumenism; Compassion; Courage; Discipleship and Service; Empowerment; Gift(s); Guidance; Healing; Hope; Hunger; Jesus Christ Cross; Jesus Christ Example; Jesus Christ Guide and Leader; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Life In; Jesus Christ Reign; Light; Manna, Bread of Life; Mercy; Ministry; Mission and Outreach; Opening Hymns; Peace (World); Providence; Service Music Offering; Sin; Social Concerns; Struggle and Conflict; Temptation; Trust; Unity; Walking with God/Jesus Christ; World; Advent 2 Year A; Epiphany 5 Year A; Epiphany 6 Year A; Ascension Year A; Proper 6 Year A; Proper 12 Year A; Proper 17 Year A; Proper 23 Year A; Proper 28 Year A; Epiphany 4 Year B; Easter 7 Year B; Proper 10 Year B; Proper 11 Year B; Proper 13 Year B; Proper 22 Year B; Proper 23 Year B; Advent 4 Year C; Epiphany 6 Year C; Lent 5 Year C; All Saints Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Ash Wednesday Year ABC First Line: Hope of the world, O Christ of great compasssion Lyrics: 1 Hope of the world, O Christ of great compassion, speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent; save us, your people, from consuming passion, who by our own false hopes and aims are spent. 2 Hope of the world, God's gift from highest heaven, bringing to hungry souls the bread of life, still let your Spirit unto us be given to heal earth's wounds and end our bitter strife. 3 Hope of the world, afoot on dusty highways, showing to wandering souls the path of light: walk now beside us lest the tempting byways lure us away from you to endless night. 4 Hope of the world, who by your cross has saved us from death and dark despair, from sin and guilt: we render back the love your mercy gave us; take now our lives, with them your kingdom build. 5 Hope of the world, O Christ, o'er death victorious, who by this sign did conquer grief and pain, we would be faithful to your gospel glorious. You are our Lord! You shall forever reign! Used With Tune: DONNE SECOURS

Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks

Author: Donald Fishel Meter: 8.8 with refrain Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Christian Year Easter Vigil; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Reign of Christ; Creation; Eternal Life; Evangelism; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Praise; Sovereignty of God; Christian Year Easter First Line: Jesus is Lord of all the earth Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks to the risen Lord Scripture: Psalm 67:4 Used With Tune: ALLELUIA NO. 1

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

Author: Christopher Wordsworth Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 127 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Baptism of Jesus; Biblical Characters David; Biblical Places Bethlehem; Biblical Places Jordan; Christian Year Epiphany; Christian Year Baptism of the Lord; God Presence; Healing; Jesus Christ Baptism; Jesus Christ High Priest; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Miracles; Jesus Christ Prophet; Jesus Christ Signs and Wonders; Jesus Christ Youth; Music and Singing; Praise; Salvation; Satan/Demonic Forces/Devil; Thankfulness; Baptism of Jesus Year A; Epiphany 2 Year A; Epiphany 3 Year A; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Advent 3 Year B; Epiphany 7 Year B; Epiphany 9 Year B; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year B; Lent 2 Year B; Proper 4 Year B; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany 8 Year C; Epiphany 9 Year C; Lent 2 Year C Lyrics: 1 Songs of thankfulness and praise, Jesus Christ, to you we raise, manifested by the star, to the sages from afar; branch of royal David's stem in your birth at Bethlehem; anthems be to you addressed God in flesh made manifest. 2 Manifest at Jordan's stream, Prophet, Priest and King supreme; and at Cana wedding-guest in your Godhead manifest; manifest in power divine, changing water into wine: anthems be to you addressed God in flesh made manifest. 3 Manifest in making whole palsied limbs and fainting soul; manifest in valiant fight, quelling all the devil's might; manifest in gracious will, ever bringing good from ill: anthems be to you addressed God in flesh made manifest. 4 Grant us grace to see you, Lord, mirrored in your holy Word; with your grace our lives endow, grace to imitate you now, that we like to you may be at your great epiphany; anthems be to you addressed God in flesh made manifest. Used With Tune: SALZBURG (HINTZE)

Joy to the World

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeat Appears in 1,860 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Saviour; Joy; Kingdom of God; Opening Hymns; Salvation; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 1 Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Christmas 2 Year A; Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas Day 1 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year B; Christmas 1 Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; Easter 5 Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Advent 4 Year C; Christmas Eve Year C; Christmas Day 1 Year C; Christmas Day 2 Year C 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 earth 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. Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands

Author: Martin Luther Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.4 Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Christian Year Easter Vigil; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Reign of Christ; Grace; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Joy; Christian Year Easter First Line: Christ Jesus lay in death's strong bands Scripture: Isaiah 25:8 Used With Tune: CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN Text Sources: Tran. composite

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Author: Frederick Oakeley; John Francis Wade; Claude Rozier Meter: Irregular Appears in 732 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Angels; Biblical Characters Shepherds; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Divinity; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Music and Singing; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Responses Antiphonal; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Advent 4 Year B; Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas Day 1 Year B; Advent 1 Year C; Christmas Eve Year C; Christmas Day 2 Year C First Line: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste fideles) (Peuple fidèle) Refrain First Line: O come, let us adore him (Venite adoramus) (En lui viens reconnaître) Lyrics: 1 O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; come and behold him, born the King of angels: [Refrain:] O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord. 2 God of God, light of light, lo, he abhors not the virgin's womb, very God, begotten, not created: [Refrain] 3 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, sing, all ye citizens of heaven above; Glory to God in the highest: [Refrain] 4 See, how the shepherds summoned to his cradle, leaving their flocks, draw nigh with lowly fear; we too will thither bend our joyful footsteps; [Refrain] 5 Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to thee be all glory given; word of the Father, now in flesh appearing: [Refrain] 1 Adeste, fideles, laeti triumphantes, venite, venite, in Bethlehem. natum vidéte, regem angelorum: [Refrain:] venite adoremus, venite adoremus, venite adoremus Dominum. 2 Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, parturit virgo mater, Deum verum, genitum non factum. [Refrain] 3 Cantet nunc hymnos chorus angelorum, cantet nunc aula caelestium: gloria in excelsis Deo! [Refrain] 4 En grege relicto, -- humiles ad cunas vocati pastores approperant; et nos ovanti gradu festinemus. [Refrain] 5 Ergo qui natus die hodierna Jesu, tibi sit gloria: Patris aeterni verbum caro factum. [Refrain] 1 Peuple fidèle, le Seigneur t'appelle c'est fête sur terre, le Christ est né. Viens à la crèche, voir le Roi du monde. [Refrain:] En lui viens reconnaître, en lui viens reconnaître, en lui viens reconnaître, ton Dieu, ton Sauveur! 2 Verbe, Lumière et splendeur du Père, il naît d'une mère, petit enfant, Dieu véritable, le Seigneur fait homme: [Refrain] 3 Peuple, acclame, avec tous les anges le Maître des hommes qui vient chez nous. Dieu qui se donne à tous ceux qu'il aime! [Refrain] 4 Peuple fidèle, en ce jour de fête, proclame la gloire de ton Seigneur. Dieu se fait homme, vois donc comme il t'aime: [Refrain] Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Author: Theodore Baker; L. Monastier Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.6 Appears in 101 hymnals Topics: Biblical Characters Isaiah; Biblical Characters Jesse; Biblical Characters Mary, Mother of Jesus; Christian Year Advent; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Light; Prophets; Salvation; Advent 2 Year A; Advent 3 Year A; Advent 4 Year A; Advent 4 Year B; Advent 1 Year C; Advent 2 Year C; Christmas Eve Year C; Christmas Day 1 Year C; Epiphany Year C First Line: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming (D'un arbre séculaire) Lyrics: 1 Lo, how a rose, e'er blooming, from tender stem hath sprung, of Jesse's lineage coming as seers of old have sung. It came a blossom bright, amid the cold of winter when half spent was the night. 2 Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind, with Mary we behold it, the virgin mother kind. To show God's love aright she bore for us a Saviour when half-spent was the night. French: 1 D'un arbre séculaire, du vieux tronc d'Isaï, durant l'hiver austère, un frais rameau jaillit; et, sur le sol durci, dans la nuit calme et claire, une rose a fleuri. 2 Dieu, par leur voix fervente, de nombreux serviteurs, à son peuple en attente, promettait un Sauveur. Il vient, suprême honneur, chez une humble servante, toute à son pur bonheur. Used With Tune: ES IST EIN' ROS Text Sources: German, 15th century

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Author: Nahum Tate Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,102 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Annunciation; Biblical Characters David; Biblical Characters Shepherds; Biblical Narrative; Christian Year Christmas; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Jesus Christ Lord of Life; Revelation; Service Music Doxologies; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year C First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night Lyrics: 1 While shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground, the angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around. 2 "Fear not," said he, for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind; "glad tidings of great joy I bring to you and humankind. 3 "To you, in David's town this day is born of David's line a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord; and this shall be the sign: 4 "The heavenly babe you there shall find to human view displayed, all meanly wrapped in swathing bands, and in a manger laid." 5 Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith appeared a shining throng of angels praising God, who thus addressed their joyful song: 6 "All glory be to God on high, and on earth be peace; good will to all from highest heaven begin and never cease." Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD