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God Is Love

Author: David Haas, b. 1957 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:2 First Line: God is light, in God there is no darkness Topics: Marriage; Jesus Christ; Light; Love of God for Us; Unity; Vocation Used With Tune: [God is light, in God there is no darkness]

God of freedom, God of justice

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:14-17 Lyrics: 1 God of freedom, God of justice, God whose love is strong as death, God who saw the dark of prison, God who knew the price of faith: touch our world of sad oppression with your Spirit's healing breath. 2 Rid the earth of torture's terror, God whose hands were nailed to wood; hear the cries of pain and protest, God who shed the tears and blood; move in us the power of pity, restless for the common good. 3 Make in us a captive conscience quick to hear, to act, to plead; make us truly sisters, brothers of whatever race or creed: teach us to be fully human, open to each other's need. Topics: Compassion; Freedom; Healing; Intercession of the Church; International Affairs; Jesus Christ Humanity; Justice; Martyrs; Ministry of God's People; Mission/Sending; Our Love to Others; Unity of Humanity Used With Tune: TREDEGAR

Go to the world! Go into all the earth

Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan (1955-1993) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:18 Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Ordination; Mission Used With Tune: ENGELBERG

Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings

Author: Gregory J. Wismar, b. 1946 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:16-18 Refrain First Line: Lord, we pray that we, your people Topics: Stewardship Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA

Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost

Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 205 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:11-18 Topics: The Gift and Work of the Holy Spirit Used With Tune: CHARITY

God is gone up on high

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 69 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:8 Lyrics: 1 God is gone up on high, with a triumphant noise; the clarions of the sky proclaim the angelic joys! Refrain: Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; glory ascribe to glory’s king. 2 God in the flesh below, for us he reigns above: let all the nations know our Jesus’ conquering love! [Refrain] 3 All power to our great Lord is by the Father given; by angel hosts adored, he reigns supreme in heaven. [Refrain] 4 High on his holy seat he bears the righteous sway; his foes beneath his feet shall sink and die away. [Refrain] 5 His foes and ours are one, Satan, the world, and sin; but he shall tread them down and bring his kingdom in: [Refrain] 6 till all the earth, renewed in righteousness divine, with all the hosts of God in one great chorus join. [Refrain] Topics: Ascension; Consummation in Christ; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Kingdom of God; Resurrection; Saints Days and Holy Days St Michael and All Angels; Satan; Sovereignty of God; Worship Earthly and Heavenly Used With Tune: DARWALL

Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

Author: Joseph Simpson Cook, 1859-1933 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 48 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:5 Lyrics: 1 Gentle Mary laid her child Lowly in a manger; There He lay, the Undefiled, To the world a stranger. Such a babe in such a place, Can He be the Savior? Ask the saved of all the race Who have found His favor. 2 Angels sang about His birth, Wise Men sought and found Him; Heaven's star shone brightly forth Glory all around Him. Shepherds saw the wondrous sight, Heard the angels singing; All the plains were lit that night, All the hills were ringing. 3 Gentle Mary laid her child Lowly in a manger; He is still the Undefiled But no more a stranger. Son of God of humble birth, Beautiful the story; Praise His name in all the earth; Hail the King of glory! Used With Tune: TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM

God, who stretched the spangled heavens

Author: Catherine Cameron, 1927- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 45 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3 Lyrics: 1 God, who stretched the spangled heavens infinite in time and place, flung the suns in burning radiance through the silent fields of space, we your children, in your likeness, share inventive powers with you: great Creator, still creating, show us what we yet may do. 2 Proudly rise our modern cities, stately buildings, row on row; yet their windows, blank, unfeeling, stare on canyoned streets below, where the lonely drift unnoticed in the city’s ebb and flow, lost to purpose and to meaning, scarcely caring where they go. 3 We have ventured worlds undreamed of since the childhood of our race; known the ecstasy of winging through untraveled realms of space; probed the secrets of the atom, yielding unimagined power, facing us with life’s destruction or our most triumphant hour. 4 As each far horizon beckons, may it challenge us anew, children of creative purpose, serving others, honouring you. May our dreams prove rich with promise, each endeavor, well begun: great Creator, give us guidance till our goals and yours are one. Topics: Art and Learning; City; Courage; Discipleship; Environment; Fulfilment; Gifts in Creation; Guidance; Providence; Science Used With Tune: LE THRORNET

God, Whose Purpose Is to Kindle

Author: David E. Trueblood, 1900-1994 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 18 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:17 Topics: Challenge of Gospel; Christian Life; Complacency; Courage; Discipleship; Justice; Love for Others; Mission; Service; Social Concern; Word of God Used With Tune: EBENEZER

Give Thanks for Life

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 10.10.10 with refrain Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: 1 John 3:3 First Line: Give thanks for life, the measure of our days Lyrics: 1 Give thanks for life, the measure of our days, mortal, we pass through beauty that decays, yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise: Alleluia! Alleluia! 2 Give thanks for those who made their life a light caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night, who touched the truth, who burned for what is right: Alleluia! Alleluia! 3 And for our own, our living and our dead, thanks for the love by which our life is fed, a love not changed by time or death or dread: Alleluia! Alleluia! 4 Give thanks for hope, that, like the wheat, the grain lying in darkness does its life retain, in resurrection to grow green again: Alleluia! Alleluia! Used With Tune: SINE NOMINE