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Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 483 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Christian Perfecction; Christian Year Advent; Hope; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Light; Jesus Christ Praise; Light; Morning; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Victory; Christmas 2 Year A; Epiphany 2 Year A; Epiphany 3 Year A; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year A; Ascension Year A; Easter 7 Year A; Epiphany Year B; Epiphany 9 Year B; Epiphany Last/Transfig. Year B; Ascension Year B; Epiphany Year C; Epiphany 2 Year C; Ascension Year C; Easter 7 Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Reign of Christ Year C Lyrics: 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light, sun of Righteousness, arise, triumph o'er the shades of night. Day-spring from on high, be near; day-star, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day’s return till thy mercy’s beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart. 3 Visit then this soul of mine, pierce the gloom of sin and grief; fill me, radiancy divine, scatter all my unbelief; more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day. Used With Tune: RATISBON

Still, Still, Still

Author: John Rutter Meter: 3.6.9.8.3.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Angels; Biblical Characters Mary, Mother of Jesus; Christian Year Christmas; Good News, Gospel; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Christmas Eve Year A Used With Tune: STILL, STILL, STILL Text Sources: Austrian carol

Cordero que bajaste del cielo (Cordero, Lamb of God Who Descended)

Author: Carlos Colón, n. 1966; Adam M. L. Tice, n. 1979 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Año Cristiano Jueves Santo; Christian Year Maundy Thursday; Jesucristo Bondad de; Jesus Christ Goodness of; Jesucristo Cordero de Dios; Jesus Christ Lamb of God; Jesucristo Redentor; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Jesucristo Sacrificio; Jesus Christ Sacrifice; Salvación; Salvation Refrain First Line: Hoy te alabo, Señor (Now and for all of my days) Used With Tune: [Cordero que bajaste del cielo] Text Sources: Latinoamericana; Latin American

Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands

Author: Martin Luther Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.8.7.4 Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Christian Year Easter Vigil; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Reign of Christ; Grâce; 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

Christ is coming! let creation

Author: John Ross Macduff (1818-1895) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Christ Risen Coming Again; Christ Incarnate Promise of the Messiah; Christian Year Advent Lyrics: 1 Christ is coming! let creation from her groans and travail cease; let the glorious proclamation hope restore and faith increase: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come now, blessèd Prince of Peace. 2 Earth can now but tell the story of your bitter cross and pain; she shall yet behold your glory; in your coming back to reign: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! 'Come, Lord Jesus, come again!' 3 Long your exiles have been pining, far from you, and rest, and home: but, in heavenly glory shining, soon their loving Lord shall come: Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Haste the joyous jubilee. 4 With that blessèd hope before us, harps be played and songs be sung; let the mighty advent chorus onward roll from tongue to tongue: 'Christ is coming! Christ is coming! Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come!' Scripture: Revelation 1:7 Used With Tune: NEANDER (UNSER HERRSCHER)

I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

Author: Kathleen Thomerson, b. 1934 Meter: 10.7.10.8 with refrain Appears in 41 hymnals Topics: The Gospel in the Christian Life Christian Life, Discipleship; Christian Year Advent (Second Coming); Commitment/Dedication; Discipleship; Jesus Christ Light of the World; New Life in Jesus Christ; Submission/Surrender Refrain First Line: In Him there is no darkness at all Scripture: John 12:46 Used With Tune: HOUSTON

For Our Transgressions You Were Wounded

Author: Christian Ignatius Latrobe, 1758-1846; Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Lent; Christ--Atonement; Christ--Love of; Christian year--Lent Lyrics: 1 For our transgressions you were wounded; our sins, O Lord, on you were laid; your suff'rings, O what love unbounded for guilty ones the debt have paid! With humble thanks we now adore you; your cross our glory shall remain; yet oft ashamed we weep before you, that we by sin the Lord have slain. 2 O may your love be ever dwelling within my heart alone enthroned, all other love but yours expelling, that love which for my sins atoned; now Jesus, only, be my treasure, my joy, my crown while life shall last; none else on earth shall yield me pleasure, none else in heav'n, when earth is past. Scripture: Philippians 2:1-13 Used With Tune: SAXONY

Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,821 hymnals Topics: Reign of Christ; Christ--Adoration and praise; Christian year--Reign of Christ; God--Kingdom of; Spread of the Gospel Lyrics: 1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does its successive journeys run, his kingdom stretch from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and wane no more. 2 To him shall endless prayer be made, and praises throng to crown his head; his name like sweet perfume shall rise with every morning sacrifice. 3 People and realms of every tongue dwell on his love with sweetest song, and infant voices shall proclaim their early blessings on his name. 4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns, the pris'ners leap to lose their chains, the weary find eternal rest, and all who suffer want are blessed. 5 Let ev'ry creature rise and bring the highest honors to our King; angels descend with songs again, and earth repeat the loud amen. Scripture: Psalm 72 Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

Christ Is Alive!

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 55 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Easter Vigil; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Reign of Christ; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Kingdom of God; Salvation; Sin; Christian Year Easter First Line: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift, and war where color, scorn, or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love, and praise. Scripture: Romans 6:5-11 Used With Tune: TRURO

Ah, Holy Jesus

Author: Robert Seymour Bridges; Johann H. Heermann Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 141 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Holy Week; Adoration and Praise; Christian Year Lent; Christian Year Holy Week; Commitment; Confession; Grâce; Gratitude; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Love of; Jesus Christ Passion; Jesus Christ Saviour; Jesus Christ Shepherd; Kindness; Penitence; Sacrifice; Salvation; Sin; Christmas 1 Year A; Palm/Passion Sunday Year A; Proper 21 Year A; Lent 1 Year B; Lent 5 Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday Year B; Holy Thursday Year B; Good Friday Year B; Proper 14 Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday Year C; Holy Thursday Year C; Good Friday Year C; Ash Wednesday Year ABC; Holy thursday Year ABC; Good Friday Year ABC First Line: Ah, holy Jesus, how have you offended Lyrics: 1 Ah, holy Jesus, how have you offended, that we to judge you have in hate pretended? By foes derided, by your own rejected, O most afflicted. 2 Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon you? Alas, my treason, Jesus, has undone you; yes, I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied you; I crucified you. 3 Lo, the good shepherd for the sheep is offered; the slave is guilty, yet the Son has suffered; for our atonement, we nothing heeded, God interceded. 4 For me, kind Jesus, was your incarnation, your mortal sorrow, and your life's oblation, your death of anguish and your bitter passion, for my salvation. 5 Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay you, I do adore you, and will ever pray you, think on your pity and your love unswerving, not my deserving. Used With Tune: HERZLIEBSTER JESU