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You Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 669 hymnals Lyrics: 1 You servants of God, your Master proclaim, and publish abroad his wonderful name; the name all victorious of Jesus extol; his kingdom is glorious and rules over all. 2 God rules in the height, almighty to save; though hid from our sight, his presence we have; the great congregation his triumph shall sing, ascribing salvation to Jesus, our King. 3 "Salvation to God, who sits on the throne!" let all cry aloud, and honor the Son; the praises of Jesus the angels proclaim, fall down on their faces and worship the Lamb. 4 Then let us adore and give him his right: all glory and power, all wisdom and might, all honor and blessing – with angels above– and thanks never ceasing for infinite love. Topics: Evangelism; Jesus Christ Lamb; Jesus Christ Master; Praise of Christ; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Scripture: Psalm 145:11-13 Used With Tune: HANOVER

Silent Night! Holy Night

Author: Joseph Mohr; John F. Young Appears in 631 hymnals First Line: Silent night! Holy night! Lyrics: 1 Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright ’round yon virgin mother and child! Holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night! Holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight. Glories stream from heaven afar, heavenly hosts sing: “Alleluia! Christ the Savior is born! Christ the Savior is born!” 3 Silent night! Holy night! Son of God, love’s pure light, radiant beams from thy holy face with the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth! Jesus Lord, at thy birth! 4 Silent night! Holy night! Wondrous star, lend thy light; with the angels let us sing Alleluia to our King: “Christ the Savior is born! Christ the Savior is born.” Topics: Biblical Names and Places Bethlehem; Church Year Christmas Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT

God of the Prophets

Author: Denis Wortman; Carl P. Daw Jr Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 61 hymnals First Line: God of the prophets, bless the prophets' heirs! Lyrics: 1 God of the prophets, bless the prophets' heirs! Elijah's mantle o'er Elisha cast: each age for your own solemn task prepares; make each one stronger, nobler than the last. 2 Anoint us prophets! Teach us your intent: to human need, our quickened hearts awake; fill us with power, our lips make eloquent for righteousness that shall all evil break. 3 Anoint us priests! Help us to intercede with all your royal priesthood born of grace; through us your church presents in word and deed a living sacrifice with thanks and praise. 4 Anoint us kings! Help us do justice, Lord! Anoint us with the Spirit of your Son: ours not a monarch's crown or tyrant's sword; ours by the love of Christ a kingdom won. 5 Make us disciples, heralds of your cross; forth may we go to tell all realms your grace: by you inspired, may we count all but loss, and stand at last with joy before your face. Topics: Biblical Names and Places Elijah; Biblical Names and Places Elisha; Discipleship; Occasional Services Dedication of Holy Living; Occasional Services Ordination/Installation; Hymns That Are Prayer Scripture: 2 Kings 2:8-14 Used With Tune: TOULON

O Worship the King (Psalm 104)

Author: Robert Grant Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,150 hymnals First Line: O worship the King all-glorious above Lyrics: 1 O worship the King all-glorious above, O gratefully sing his power and his love: our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise. 2 O tell of his might and sing of his grace, whose robe is the light, whose canopy space. His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is his path on the wings of the storm. 3 Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain. 4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail. Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end, our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend! 5 O measureless Might, unchangeable Love, whom angels delight to worship above! Your ransomed creation, with glory ablaze, in true adoration shall sing to your praise! Topics: Church Year Christ the King; Creation; God As Ancient of Days; God's Faithfulness; God as King; God's Mercy; God's Providence; Peacemakers; Trust in God; Hymns About Worship Scripture: Psalm 104 Used With Tune: LYONS

I Love You, LORD, For You Have Heard My Voice

Author: Helen Otte Meter: 10.11.11.10 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love for God; Occasional Services Dedication of Holy Living Scripture: Psalm 116 Used With Tune: GENEVAN 116

Come Down, O Love Divine

Author: Bianco da Siena, ca. 1350-1434; Richard F. Littledale, 1833-1890 Meter: 6.6.11.6.6.11 Appears in 109 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come down, O Love divine; seek thou this soul of mine, and visit it with your own ardor glowing: O Comforter, draw near; within my heart appear, and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing. 2 Oh, let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn to dust and ashes in its heat consuming: and let your glorious light shine ever on my sight, and clothe me round, the while my path illuming. 3 And so the yearning strong, with which the soul will long, shall far out pass the power of human telling: for none can guess God's grace, till Love creates a place wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling. Topics: Holy Spirit; Church Year Pentecost Scripture: Malachi 3:2-3 Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY

Let Us Break Bread Together

Meter: 10.10.14.7 Appears in 114 hymnals First Line: Let us break bread together on our knees Refrain First Line: When I fall on my knees, with my face to the Lord of life Lyrics: 1 Let us break bread together on our knees; let us break bread together on our knees. Refrain: When I fall on my knees, with my face to the Lord of life, (rising sun), O Lord, have mercy on me. 2 Let us drink wine together on our knees; let us drink wine together on our knees. [Refrain] 3 Let us praise God together on our knees; let us praise God together on our knees. [Refrain] Topics: Unity and Fellowship; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper Scripture: 2 Corinthians 11:26-28 Used With Tune: BREAK BREAD TOGETHER Text Sources: African-American spiritual

Alleluia, Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven

Author: Christopher Wordsworth Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 219 hymnals First Line: Alleluia, alleluia! Lyrics: 1 Alleluia, alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise. Sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He who on the cross a victim for the world’s salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Alleluia, Christ is risen! Death at last has met defeat. See the ancient powers of evil in confusion and retreat. Once he died and once was buried; now he lives forevermore— Jesus Christ, the world’s Redeemer, whom we worship and adore. 3 Christ is risen, Christ the first fruits of the holy harvest yield, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield. Then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine from the furrows of the grave. 4 Alleluia, alleluia! Glory be to God on high; alleluia! to the Savior, who has won the victory; alleluia! to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity; alleluia, alleluia! to the triune Majesty. Topics: Church Year Easter/Season of Easter; Powers of Darkness; Doxologies; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Joy; Music and Singing; Praise of Christ; Responses To Prayer; Trinity Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 Used With Tune: EBENEZER

Of the Father's Love Begotten

Author: Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-413 Appears in 214 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Of the Father’s love begotten ere the worlds began to be, he is Alpha and Omega– he the source, the ending he, of the things that are, that have been, and that future years shall see evermore and evermore. 2 O that birth forever blessed, when a virgin, blest with grace, by the Holy Ghost conceiving, bore the Savior of our race; and the babe, the world’s Redeemer, first revealed his sacred face, evermore and evermore. 3 This is he whom seers in old time chanted of with one accord, whom the voices of the prophets promised in their faithful word; now he shines, the long expected; let creation praise its Lord evermore and evermore. 4 Let the heights of heaven adore him; angel hosts, his praises sing: powers, dominions, bow before him and extol our God and King; let no tongue on earth be silent, every voice in concert ring evermore and evermore. 5 Christ, to you, with God the Father and the Spirit, there shall be hymn and chant and high thanksgiving and the shout of jubilee: honor, glory, and dominion and eternal victory evermore and evermore. Topics: Church Year Christmas; Doxologies; Jesus Christ King Scripture: Revelation 22:13 Used With Tune: DIVINUM MYSTERIUM Text Sources: Tr. composite

Blessed Jesus, at Your Word

Author: Tobias Clausnitzer; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.8 Appears in 146 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Blessed Jesus, at your word we are gathered all to hear you. Let our hearts and souls be stirred now to seek and love and fear you. By your gospel pure and holy, teach us, Lord, to love you solely. 2 All our knowledge, sense, and sight lie in deepest darkness shrouded, till your Spirit breaks our night with your beams of truth unclouded. You alone to God can win us; you must work all good within us. 3 Glorious Lord, yourself impart; Light of Light, from God proceeding, open lips and ears and heart; help us by your Spirit's leading. Hear the cry your church now raises; Lord, accept our prayers and praises. Topics: Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ Light; Praise of Christ; Responses To Scripture; Elements of Worship Prayer for Illunination; Elements of Worship Hearing the Word Scripture: Psalm 119:1-8 Used With Tune: LIEBSTER JESU

Were You There

Meter: 10.10.14.10 Appears in 225 hymnals First Line: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Lyrics: 1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? 2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? 3 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? 4 Were you there when the sun refused to shine? Were you there when the sun refused to shine? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when the sun refused to shine? 5 Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when God raised him from the tomb? Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Death Scripture: Matthew 27:55-56 Used With Tune: WERE YOU THERE Text Sources: African American spiritual

For Your Gift of God the Spirit

Author: Margaret Clarkson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 10 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For your gift of God the Spirit, power to make our lives anew, pledge of life and hope of glory, Savior, we would worship you. Crowning gift of resurrection sent from your ascended throne, fullness of the very Godhead, come to make your life our own. 2 He who in creation's dawning brooded on the lifeless deep, still across our nature's darkness moves to wake our souls from sleep, moves to stir, to draw, to quicken, thrusts us through with sense of sin; brings to birth and seals and fills us– saving Advocate within. 3 He, himself the living Author, wakes to life the sacred Word, reads with us its holy pages and reveals our risen Lord. He it is who works within us teaching rebel hearts to pray, he whose holy intercessions rise for us both night and day. 4 He, the mighty God, indwells us; his to strengthen, help, empower; his to overcome the tempter, ours to call in danger's hour. In his strength we dare to battle all the raging hosts of sin, and by him alone we conquer foes without and foes within. 5 Father, grant your Holy Spirit in our hearts may rule today, grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered, work in us his sovereign way. Fill us with your holy fullness, God the Father, Spirit, Son; in us, through us, then forever, shall your perfect will be done. Topics: Holy Spirit; Trinity; Elements of Worship Opening of Worship: Called And Gathered Scripture: Genesis 1:2 Used With Tune: FOR YOUR GIFT

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 1,336 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King; peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!” Joyful, all ye nations, rise; join the triumph of the skies; with the angelic hosts proclaim, “Christ is born in Bethlehem!” Refrain: Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!” 2 Christ, by highest heaven adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord! Late in time behold him come, offspring of the virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail the incarnate Deity, pleased as man with us to dwell, Jesus, our Immanuel. [Refrain] 3 Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings. Mild, he lays his glory by, born that we no more may die, born to raise us from the earth, born to give us second birth. [Refrain] Topics: Biblical Names and Places Bethlehem; Church Year Christmas Scripture: Malachi 4:2 Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN

Our Father in Heaven

Appears in 734 hymnals First Line: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name Lyrics: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil, for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen. Forever. Amen. Topics: Hymns That Are Prayer; Hymns That Are Prayer; Elements of Worship Offering Our Prayers Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Used With Tune: ASAS

How Sweet Was the Garden, Fertile and Fair

Author: Carl P. Daw Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 How sweet was the garden, fertile and fair, the first and best home God gave to our care, a paradise lavished on creatures of clay; yet we were not willing to follow God’s way. 2 We freely could eat from all but one tree (forbidden, perhaps, lest gods we might be?), but tasting we grew not divine after all: the fruit in our mouth turned from nectar to gall. 3 From dark, bitter fruit came forth a bright seed, for God did not turn from us in our need; the love that first formed us embraces us still and woos us from wandering to follow God’s will. Topics: Biblical Names and Places Eden; Fall and the Human Condition; God Ways Of; God's Will; Jesus Christ Love Scripture: Genesis 2:8-25, 3:1 Used With Tune: LONG ISLAND SOUND

Man of Sorrows--What a Name

Author: Philip P. Bliss Meter: 7.7.7.8 Appears in 332 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Man of sorrows — what a name for the Son of God, who came ruined sinners to reclaim: Hallelujah, what a Savior! 2 Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood, sealed my pardon with his blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! 3 Guilty, helpless, lost were we; blameless Lamb of God was he, sacrificed to set us free: Hallelujah, what a Savior! 4 He was lifted up to die; “It is finished” was his cry; now in heaven exalted high: Hallelujah, what a Savior! 5 When he comes, our glorious King, all his ransomed home to bring, then anew this song we’ll sing: Hallelujah, what a Savior! Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Lamb; Jesus Christ Savior; Jesus Christ Son of God; New Heaven and Earth Scripture: John 19:30 Used With Tune: HALLELUJAH! WHAT A SAVIOR

Told of God's favor

Author: Richard Leach Meter: 10.9.10.9 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Told of God's favor, told of God's purpose Topics: Church Year Advent Scripture: Psalm 30 Used With Tune: BORDY

God of The Ages, Whose Almighty Hand

Author: Daniel C. Roberts Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 424 hymnals Lyrics: 1 God of the ages, whose almighty hand leads forth in beauty all the starry band of shining worlds in splendor through the skies: our grateful songs before thy throne arise. 2 Thy love divine hath led us in the past; in this free land by thee our lot is cast; be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and stay; thy Word our law, thy paths our chosen way. 3 From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence, be thy strong arm our ever sure defense; may true religion in our hearts increase, thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace. 4 Refresh thy people on their toilsome way; lead us from night to never ending day; fill all our lives with love and grace divine; all glory, laud, and praise be ever thine. Topics: Culture, Community & Nation; God as Creator; Occasional Services Anniversary; Occasional Services New Year; Trust in God; War and Revolution Scripture: 2 Chronicles 6:15 Used With Tune: NATIONAL HYMN

When We Walk with the Lord

Author: John H. Sammis Appears in 452 hymnals Refrain First Line: Trust and obey, for there's no other way Lyrics: 1 When we walk with the Lord in the light of his Word, what a glory he sheds on our way! While we do his good will he abides with us still, and with all who will trust and obey. Refrain: Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. 2 But we never can prove the delights of his love until all on the altar we lay; for the favor he shows, and the joy he bestows are for them who will trust and obey. [Refrain] 3 Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at his feet, or we'll walk by his side in the way; what he says we will do, where he sends we will go - never fear, only trust and obey. [Refrain] Topics: Discipleship; Obedience to God's Will; Submission; Trust in God; Walk with God Scripture: Exodus 19:5 Used With Tune: TRUST AND OBEY

What Child Is This

Author: William C. Dix, 1837-1898 Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.8.6.7 Appears in 206 hymnals First Line: What child is this, who, laid to rest Lyrics: 1 What child is this, who, laid to rest, on Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet while shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing; haste, haste to bring him laud, the babe, the son of Mary! 2 Why lies he in such mean estate where ox and ass are feeding? Good Christian, fear; for sinners here the silent Word is pleading. Nails, spear shall pierce him through, the cross be borne for me, for you; hail, hail for Word made flesh, the babe, the son of Mary! 3 So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh; come, peasant, king, to own him. The King of kings salvation brings; let loving hearts enthrone him. Raise, raise the song on high, the virgin sings her lullaby; joy, joy, for Christ is born, the babe, the son of Mary. Topics: Biblical Names and Places Mary; Church Year Christmas Scripture: Matthew 2:11 Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES

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