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Creating God, Your Fingers Trace

Author: Jeffery Rowthorn Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: God Nature of God; Creation; Family; God Creator; God Images; God Love; God Name; God Nature; God Power/Might; God Presence; God Works; Grace; Healing; Mystery; Peace (World); Praise; Providence; Psalter/Psalm Paraphrases; Social Concerns; Space; Stewardship; Sun; Trinity; Union With God/Christ; Unity; Water; Proper 11 Year A; Proper 25 Year A; All Saints Year A; Advent 1 Year B; Easter 5 Year C; Proper 18 Year C Lyrics: 1 Creating God, your fingers trace the bold designs of farthest space; let sun and moon and stars and light and what lies hidden praise your might. 2 Sustaining God, your hands uphold earth's mysteries known or yet untold; let water's fragile blend with air, enabling life, proclaim your care. 3 Redeeming God, your arms embrace all now despised for creed or race; let peace, descending like a dove, make known on earth your healing love. 4 Indwelling God, your gospel claims one family with a billion names; let every life be touched by grace until we praise you face to face. Used With Tune: CREATION

The Play of the Godhead (Celebren la Danza de la Trinidad)

Author: Mary Louise Bringle, b. 1953; Georgina Pando-Connolly, b. 1946 Meter: 11.11.11.11.11 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Mystery of God First Line: The play of the Godhead, the Trinity's dance (Celebren la danza de la Trinidad) Used With Tune: BEDFORD PARK

Sing of God Made Manifest

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: God Mystery of Lyrics: 1 Sing of God made manifest in a child robust and blest, to whose home in Bethlehem where a star had guided them, magi came and gifts unbound, signs mysterious and profound: myrrh and frankincense and gold, grave and God and King foretold. 2 Sing of God made manifest when at Jordan John confessed, “I should be baptized by you, but your bidding I will do.” Then from heav'n a double sign— dove-like Spirit, voice divine— hailed the true Anointed One: “This is my beloved Son.” 3 Sing of God made manifest when Christ came as wedding guest and at Cana gave a sign, turning water into wine; further still was love revealed as he taught, forgave, and healed, bringing light and life to all who would listen to God’s call. 4 Sing of God made manifest on the cloud-capped mountain’s crest, where the law and prophets waned so that Christ alone remained: glimpse of glory, pledge of grace, giv'n as Jesus set his face towards the waiting cross and grave, sign of hope that God would save. Scripture: Matthew 3:13-17 Used With Tune: SALZBURG

Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above

Author: Johann J. Schütz, 1640-1690; Frances E. Cox, 1812-1897 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 200 hymnals Topics: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A; 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C; Church; Forgiveness; God the Father (Creator); Healing; Journey; Love of God for Us; Majesty and Power; Mercy; Morning; Paschal Mystery; Praise; Praise; Providence; Reconciliation; Repentance; Salvation; Song; Thanksgiving Lyrics: 1 Sing praise to God who reigns above, The God of all creation, The God of pow'r, the God of love, The God of our salvation; With healing balm my soul he fills, And ev'ry faithless murmur stills: To God all praise and glory. 2 What God's almighty pow'r has made, His gracious mercy keeping; By morning glow or evening shade His watchful eye ne'er sleeping; Within the kingdom of his might, Lo! all is just and all is right: To God all praise and glory. 3 Then all my gladsome way along, I sing aloud your praises, That all may hear the grateful song My voice unwearied raises; Be joyful in the Lord, my heart, Both soul and body sing your part: To God all praise and glory. 4 Let all who name Christ's holy name, Give God all praise and glory; All you who own his pow'r, proclaim Aloud the wondrous story! Cast each false idol from its throne, The Lord is God, and he alone: To God all praise and glory. Scripture: Deuteronomy 32:3 Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART

The Old Rugged Cross

Author: George Bennard, 1873-1958 Meter: 12.8.12.8 with refrain Appears in 377 hymnals Topics: Exaltation of the Holy Cross September 14th; Cross; Grace; Lamb Of God; Mercy, Forgiveness; Paschal Mystery; Saving Blood of Christ First Line: On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross Refrain First Line: So I'll cherish the cross, the old rugged cross Lyrics: 1 On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suff'ring and shame; And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. Refrain: So I'll cherish the cross, the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the cross, the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. 2 O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, Has a wondrous attraction for me; For the dear Lamb of God left his glory above To bear it to dark Calvary. [Refrain] 3 In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, A wondrous beauty I see; For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died To pardon and sanctify me. [Refrain] 4 To the old rugged cross I will ever be true, Its shame and reproach gladly bear; Then he'll call me some day to my home far away, Where his glory forever I'll share. [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 27:35 Used With Tune: OLD RUGGED CROSS

Providence

Author: Miss Williams Appears in 688 hymnals Topics: Dependence On Providence; God Attributes; God Benevolence; God Goodness; God Providence; Gratitude; Mysteries of Providence First Line: While thee I seek, protecting Power! Used With Tune: BRATTLE STREET

Mystery

Author: Fawcett Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: God Attributes; God Infinity; God Love; God Mystery; God Sovereignty; God Unsearchableness; Mysteries of Providence First Line: Thy way, O God, is in the sea Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12

Providence

Author: Watts Appears in 202 hymnals Topics: Decrees; Election; God Attributes; God Being; God Mystery; God Providence; God Unsearchableness; Mysteries of Providence First Line: Keep silence, all created things

O love of God, how strong and true

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-89 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 113 hymnals Topics: Mystery of God's Love Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true, eternal and yet ever new, uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought! 2 O wide-embracing, wondrous love, We read you in the sky above, we read you in the earth below, in seas that swell and streams that flow. 3 We read you best in him who came to bear for us the cross of shame, sent by the Father from on high, our life to live, our death to die. 4 We read your power to bless and save ev'n in the darkness of the grave; still more in resurrection light we read the fullness of your might. 5 O love of God, our shield and stay through all the perils of our way; eternal love, in you we rest, for ever safe, for ever blest. Scripture: 1 John 4:9-12 Used With Tune: BOW BRICKHILL

God is the refuge of his saints

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 465 hymnals Topics: Mystery of God's Ways Lyrics: 1 God is the refuge of his saints, When storms of sharp distress invade; Ere we can offer our complaints, Behold him present with his aid. 2 Let mountains from their seats be hurled Down to the deep, and buried there, Convulsions shake the solid world, Our faith shall never yield to fear. 3 Loud may the troubled ocean roar; In sacred peace our souls abide, While ev'ry nation, ev'ry shore, Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide. 4 There is a stream whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our God; Life, love, and joy, still gliding through, And wat'ring our divine abode. 5 That sacred stream, thy holy Word, Our grief allays, our fear controls; Sweet peace thy promises afford, And give new strength to fainting souls. 6 Zion enjoys her Monarch's love, Secure against a threat'ning hour; Nor can her firm foundations move, Built on his truth, and armed with pow'r. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 46 Used With Tune: WARD