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Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John Wesley Work II Meter: Irregular Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Christmas; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Christmas; Closing Hymns; Good News, Gospel; Jesus Christ Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ Saviour; Joy; Recessionals; Service Music Sending Forth/Commissioning; Spirituals; Testimony; Advent 4 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Epiphany Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Christmas 1 Year B; Christmas Day 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching o'er silent flocks by night, behold, throughout the heavens there shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled when lo, above the earth rang out the angel chorus that hailed our Saviour's birth. [Refrain] 3 Down in a lonely manger the humble Christ was born, and God sent our salvation that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Used With Tune: GO, TELL IT

Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light

Author: Johann Rist; Arthur Tozer Russell Meter: Irregular Appears in 62 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Epiphany; Christian Year Epiphany; Glory; Jesus Christ Presence; Light; Morning; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Praise; Satan/Demonic Forces/Devil; Advent 3 Year A; Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Day 2 Year A; Christmas 1 Year A; Christmas 2 Year A; Epiphany 3 Year A; Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; Christmas Eve Year C Lyrics: 1 Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light, and usher in the morning; ye shepherds, shrink not with affright, but hear the angel's warning. This child, now born in infancy, our confidence and joy shall be, the power of Satan breaking, our peace eternal making. 2 All blessing, thanks and praise to thee, Lord Jesus Christ, be given: thou hast our brother deigned to be, our foes in sunder riven. O grant us through our day of grace with constant praise to seek thy face; grant us ere long in glory with praises to adore thee. Used With Tune: ERMUNTRE DICH Text Sources: German

Joy Shall Come

Meter: Irregular Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Advent; Joy; Wilderness/Desert; Advent 3 Year A; Lent 1 Year A First Line: Joy shall come even to the wilderness Lyrics: Joy shall come, even to the wilderness, and the parched land shall then know great gladness; as the rose, as the rose shall deserts blossom, deserts like a garden blossom. For living springs shall give cool water, in the desert streams shall flow; for living springs shall give cool water, in the desert streams shall flow; Used With Tune: JOY SHALL COME Text Sources: Israeli traditional

Psalm 25: To You, O Lord

Author: Marty Haugen Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Advent 1 Year C First Line: Lord, make me know your ways Refrain First Line: To you, O Lord, I lift my soul (Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth) Scripture: Psalm 25:4-14 Used With Tune: [Lord, make me know your ways]

Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound

Author: John Newton, 1725-1807; Jacques de Réland; Josephine S. (Konwenne) Day; Wing-Hee Heyward Wong; Chirstopher Cheung; Megumi Hara; Haruo Harold Aihara Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,529 hymnals Topics: God Nature of God; Aging; Assurance; Comfort/Consolation; Conversion; Courage; Eternal Life; Faith Journey; God Faithfulness; God Mercy; God Nature; God Presence; God Promises and Covenant; Grace; Guidance; Healing; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Holy Spirit Gifts; Hope; Life; Light; Mercy; Pilgrimage and Conflict; Praise; Rédemption; Salvation; Suffering; Trials; Trust; Victory; Vision/Dream; Christmas 2 Year A; Epiphany 9 Year A; Lent 1 Year A; Lent 3 Year A; Lent 4 Year A; Proper 4 Year A; Proper 6 Year A; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 15 Year A; Proper 26 Year A; Thanksgiving Year A; Advent 4 Year B; Christmas 2 Year B; Epiphany 6 Year B; Epiphany 8 Year B; Lent 1 Year B; Lent 4 Year B; Lent 4 Year B; Proper 9 Year B; Proper 10 Year B; Proper 18 Year B; Proper 25 Year B; Advent 3 Year C; Epiphany 5 Year C; Lent 3 Year C; Trinity Sunday Year C; Trinity Sunday Year C; Proper 14 Year C; Proper 19 Year C; Ash Wednesday Year ABC Lyrics: 1 Amazing grace, How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. 2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved; how precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed! 3 Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; 'tis grace that brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. 4 The Lord has promised good to me, this word my hope secures; God will my shield and portion be as long as life endures. 5 When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we'd first begun. Used With Tune: AMAZING GRACE (NEW BRITAIN) Text Sources: V. 5 anon. from A Collection of Sacred Ballads, 1790; Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut translators unknown; Ethnic Ministries Council, The United Church of Canada also helped with Japanese transliteration, 1995

Psalm 146 (A Responsorial Setting)

Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Alleluias; Biblical Names and Places Jacob; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Church Year Advent; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; God Light from; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God as Creator; God as King; God's Generosity; God's Justice; Grace; Gratitude; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Healer; Joy; Life Stages Orphans; Life Stages Widows; Lord's Prayer 4th petition (give us today our daily bread); Mercy; Occasional Services Funerals; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Suffering; Poverty; Prayer; Social Justice; The Creation; Year A, Advent, 34d Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 4-10; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 5-11 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 25-October 1 First Line: Heleluyan, heleluyan (Hallelujah, halleujah) Lyrics: English: Hallelujah, hallelujah; halle, hallelujah; hallelujah, hallelujah; helle, hallelujah. Muscogee: Heleluyan, heleluyan; helle, heleluyan; Heleluyan, heleluyan; helle, heleluyan. Scripture: Psalm 146 Used With Tune: [Heleluyan, heleluyan] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text); Refrain : Traditional Muscogee Creek Indian

Lord, I Gladly Trust

Author: Martin Leckebusch Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Affliction; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Church Year Advent; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Prayer for Illumination; Forgiveness; God Daily Experience of; God Trust in; God as Guide; God as Judge; God's Compassion; God's Faithfulness; God's Forgiveness; God's Friendship; God's Promises; God's Protection; God's Way; Grace; Guilt; Hope; Humility; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Parables of; Joy; Lament Individual; Life Stages Youth; Loneliness; Mercy; Occasional Services Ordination and/or Installation; Prayer; Renewal; Rest; Salvation; Shame; The Fall; Trust; Truth; Worship; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 24-October 1; Year B, Lent, 1st Sunday; Year C, Advent, 1st Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 10-16 First Line: Lord, I gladly trust in you Scripture: Psalm 25 Used With Tune: REDHEAD 76

In Christ There Is No East or West

Author: John Oxenham Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 342 hymnals Topics: Church in the World Discipleship: Love in Action; Body of Christ; Brotherhood/Sisterhood; Church Community in Christ; Church Ecumenism; Church Universal; Community; Family; Freedom; Jesus Christ Example; Jesus Christ Friend; Justice; Love; Love for Others; Service; Social Concerns; Unity; World; Pentecost Year A; Proper 4 Year A; Proper 11 Year A; Proper 15 Year A; Easter 5 Year B; Trinity Sunday Year B; Proper 5 Year B; Proper 11 Year B; Proper 18 Year B; Advent 2 Year C; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Lent 1 Year C; Easter 5 Year C; Pentecost Year C; Proper 7 Year C; Proper 13 Year C Lyrics: 1 In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, but one great family of love throughout the whole wide earth. 2 In him shall true hearts everywhere their high communion find; his service is the golden cord close binding humankind. 3 Join hands, then, peoples of the faith, whate'er your race may be; all children of the living God are surely kin to me. 4 In Christ now meet both east and west, in him meet south and north: all Christ-like souls are one in him throughout the whole wide earth. Used With Tune: MCKEE

The God of Abraham praise

Author: Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799 Meter: 6.6.8.4 D Appears in 459 hymnals Topics: Faith, Trust and Commitment; Grace and Providence; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; The Pilgrim Community; Year A Easter 2; Year A Proper 17; Year A Proper 8; Year A Trinity Sunday; Year B Christ the King; Year B Lent 2; Year B Proper 1; Year B Second Sunday Before Advent; Year C Epiphany 4; Year C Proper 8; Years A, B, and C Ascension Day Lyrics: 1 The God of Abraham praise who reigns enthroned above, Ancient of everlasting Days, and God of love: Jehovah, great I AM, by earth and heav'n confessed; we bow and bless the sacred name, for ever blest. 2 The God of Abraham praise, at whose supreme command from earth we rise, and seek the joys at his right hand: we all on earth forsake, its wisdom, fame and pow'r; and him our only portion make, our shield and tow'r. 3 The God of Abraham praise, whose all-sufficient grace shall guide us all our happy days, in all our ways: he is our faithful friend; he is our gracious God; and he will save us to the end, through Jesus' blood. 4 He by himself has sworn - we on his oath depend - we shall, on eagles' wings upborne, to heav'n ascend: we shall behold his face, we shall his pow'r adore, and sing the wonders of his grace for evermore. 5 The whole triumphant host give thanks to God on high; 'Hail, Father, Son and Holy Ghost!' they ever cry: Hail, Abraham's God and ours! We join the heav'nly throng, and celebrate with all our pow'rs in endless song. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Used With Tune: LEONI Text Sources: Hebrew "Yigdal"

Immortal, invisible, God only wise

Author: Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824-1908 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 218 hymnals Topics: Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year A Epiphany 4; Year B Advent 2; Year B Christ the King; Year B Proper 5; Year B Trinity Sunday; Year C Epiphany 2; Year C Proper 1; Year C Proper 19; Years A, B, and C Ascension Day; Years A, B, and C Monday of Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. 2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might: thy justice, like mountains high soaring above, thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love. 3 To all, life thou givest, to both great and small; in all life thou livest, the true life of all; we blossom and flourish like leaves on the tree, then wither and perish; but naught changeth thee. 4 Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight; all laud we would render, O help us to see 'tis only the splendou of light hideth thee. Scripture: Daniel 7:9-22 Used With Tune: ST DENIO