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O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
Author: Benjamin Webb Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 139 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:18 Lyrics: 1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
beyond all thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!
2 For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore;
for us temptation sharp he knew,
for us the tempter overthrew.
3 For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought:
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.
4 For us to evil power betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death;
for us gave up his dying breath.
5 For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
6 All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad
the Trinity, whom we adore
forever and forevermore.
Topics: Doxologies; Cross of Christ; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Suffering of Christ; Atonement; Cross of Christ; Doxologies; Easter; Epiphany & Ministry of Christ; Suffering of Christ; Trinity Used With Tune: DEO GRACIAS Text Sources: Latin, 15th cent.
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
Just as I Am, Without One Plea
Author: Charlotte Elliott Meter: 8.8.8.6 Appears in 2,120 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19-21 Lyrics: The Hymnal 1982 #693 Psalter Hymnal #263 Trinity Hymnal #502
Charlotte Elliott Charlotte Elliott Charlotte Elliott
1 Just as I am, without one plea
but that thy blood was shed for me,
and that thou bidd'st me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
2 Just as I am, though tossed about
with many a conflict, many a doubt,
fightings within, and fears without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
3 Just as I am, thou wilt receive,
wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
4 Just as I am (thy love unknown
has broken ev'ry barrier down),
now to be thine, and thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
5 Just as I am, of that free love
the breadth, depth, length, and height to prove.
here for a season, then above--
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Topics: Call and Response Used With Tune: SAFFRON WALDEN
Just as I Am, Without One Plea
Hymn 135
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 281 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16 First Line: Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell Lyrics:
Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell
By faith and love in every breast;
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel
The joys that cannot be expressed.
Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,
Make our enlarged souls possess,
And learn the height, and breadth, and length
Of thine unmeasurable grace.
Now to the God whose power can do
More than our thoughts or wishes know,
Be everlasting honors done
By all the church, through Christ his Son.
Hymn 135
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
Author: Paul Gerhardt; John Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 347 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, Thy boundless love to me
No thought can reach, no tongue declare;
O knit my thankful heart to Thee,
And reign without a rival there!
Thine wholly, Thine alone, I'd live,
Myself to Thee, entirely give.
2 O, grant that nothing in my soul
May dwell, but Thy pure love alone;
O may Thy love possess me whole,
My joy, my treasure, and my crown!
All coldness from my heart remove;
May every act, word, thought be love.
3 O love, how gracious is thy way!
All fear before thy presence flies;
Care, anguish, sorrow melt away,
Where'er Thy healing beams arise.
O Jesus, nothing may I see,
Nothing desire or seek, but Thee.
Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
Jesus, the Very Thought of You
Author: Edward Caswall Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,026 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, the very thought of you
fills us with sweet delight,
but sweeter far your face to view
and rest within your light.
2 No voice can sing, no heart can frame,
nor can the memory find
a sweeter sound than your blest name,
O Savior of mankind!
3 O Hope of every contrite heart,
O Joy of all the meek,
how kind you are to those who fall,
how good to those who seek!
4 But what to those who find? Ah, this
no tongue or pen can show;
the love of Jesus, what it is
none but his loved ones know.
Topics: Love God's Love to Us; Redemption; Hope; Joy; Love God's Love to Us; Redemption Used With Tune: ST. AGNES Text Sources: Latin, 12th cent
Jesus, the Very Thought of You
Let Saints On Earth in Concert Sing
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 175 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:15 Topics: Unity of the Church Used With Tune: BROWN
Let Saints On Earth in Concert Sing
The Deity and Humanity of CHRIST
Appears in 98 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:9-10 First Line: E'er the blue Heav'ns were stretch'd abroad Lyrics: 1 E'er the blue Heav'ns were stretch'd abroad,
From Everlasting was the word;
With God he was; the Word was God,
And must divinely be ador'd.
2 By his own Pow'r were all Things made;
By him supported all Things stand;
He is the whole Creation's Head,
And Angels fly at his Command.
3 E'er Sin was born, or Satan fell,
He led the Host of Morning-Stars;
(Thy Generation who can tell,
Or count the Number of thy Years?)
4 But lo, he leaves those Heav'nly Forms
The Word descends and dwells in Clay,
That he may hold Converse with Worms,
Drest in such feeble Flesh as they.
5 Mortals with Joy behold his Face,
Th' Eternal Father's only Son;
How full of Truth! how full of Grace!
When thro' his Eyes the Godhead shone!
6 Arch-Angels leave their high Abode,
To learn new Myst'ries here, and tell
The Love of our descending God,
The Glories of EMANUEL.
Topics: Life of Christ, Characters and Representations
The Deity and Humanity of CHRIST
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus!
Author: Samuel Trevor Francis, 1834-1925 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 57 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: O the deep, deep love of Jesus Lyrics: 1 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;
rolling as a mighty ocean
in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me,
is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward,
to thy glorious rest above.
2 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread his praise from shore to shore;
how he loveth, ever loveth,
changeth never, nevermore;
how he watches o'er his loved ones,
died to call them all his own;
how for them he intercedeth,
watcheth o'er them from the throne.
3 O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Love of ev'ry love the best:
'tis an ocean vast of blessing,
'tis a haven sweet of rest.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
'tis a heav'n of heav'ns to me;
and it lifts me up to glory,
for it lifts me up to thee.
Topics: The Way of Salvation Sanctification; Christ Love and Grace of Used With Tune: EBENEZER (OR TON-Y-BOTEL)
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus!
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Author: Phillips Brooks, 1835-93 Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 846 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16-19 Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light.
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
2 For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wond'ring love.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the king
And peace to all the earth!
3 How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is giv'n!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heav'n.
No ear may hear His coming;
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him, still
The dear Christ enters in.
4 O holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Immanuel!
Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O love divine, how sweet thou art!
Author: C. Wesley Appears in 379 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Lyrics: 1 O love divine, how sweet thou art!
When shall I find my longing heart
All taken up by thee?
I thirst, I faint, I die to prove
The greatness of redeeming love,
The love of Christ to me.
2 God only knows the love of God;
Oh, that it now were shed abroad
In my poor, longing heart!
For love I sigh, for love I pine;
This only portion, Lord, be mine;
Be mine this better part.
3 Oh, that I may forever sit,
With Mary, at the Master's feet:
Be this my happy choice--
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth be this,
To hear the Bridegroom's voice.
4 Oh, that I may, with favored John,
Recline my weary head upon
The dear Redeemer's breast!
From care and sin and sorrow free,
Give me, O Lord, to find in thee
My everlasting rest.
Topics: The Christian System Adoption And Sanctification; Perfect Love
O love divine, how sweet thou art!
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 341 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16 Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, who dwells within my heart,
wean it from sin, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as you are,
and make me love you as I ought to love.
2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no opening skies;
but take the dimness of my soul away.
3 Did you not bid us love you, God and King,
love you with all our heart and strength and mind?
I see the cross– there teach my heart to cling.
O let me seek you and O let me find!
4 Teach me to feel that you are always nigh;
teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unceasing prayer.
5 Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the fullness of the heaven-descended Dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.
Topics: Love Our Love to God; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Love Our Love to God; Pilgrimage & Conflct Used With Tune: MORECAMBE
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul
Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul;
what wondrous love is this, O my soul;
what wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
to bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul,
to bear the dreadful curse for my soul?
2 When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down,
when I was sinking down, sinking down;
when I was sinking down beneath God's righteous frown,
Christ laid aside his crown for my soul, for my soul,
Christ laid aside his crown for my soul.
3 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing;
to God and to the Lamb I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb, who is the great I AM,
while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing,
while millions join the theme, I will sing.
4 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on;
and when from death I'm free, I'll sing on;
and when from death I'm free I'll sing and joyful be,
and through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on;
and through eternity I'll sing on. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Eternal Life Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: Appalachian Hymn, 1867
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul
You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd
Author: Sylvia Dunstan, 1955-1993 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Refrain First Line: Topics: Faith Used With Tune: PICARDY
You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd
Awake, O Sleeper
Author: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 First Line: Awake, O sleeper, rise from death Topics: Christian Hope; Forgiveness, Healing; Last Times Used With Tune: AZMON
Awake, O Sleeper
Lord, Speak to Me, That I May Speak
Author: Frances R. Havergal Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 455 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Lyrics: 1 Lord, speak to me that I may speak
in living echoes of your tone;
as you have sought, so let me seek
your wandering children, lost, alone.
2 O lead me, Lord, that I may lead
the stumbling and the straying feet;
and feed me, Lord, that I may feed
your hungry ones with manna sweet.
3 O teach me, Lord, that I may teach
the precious things which you impart;
snd wing my words, that they may reach
the hidden depths of many a heart.
4 O fill me with your fullness, Lord,
until my heart shall overflow
in kindling thought and glowing word,
your love to tell, your praise to show. Topics: Jesus Christ Food, Spiritual; Jesus Christ Teacher; Dedications of Life; Jesus Christ Example; Jesus Christ Spiritual Food; Jesus Christ Teacher; Christian Service; Witnessing Used With Tune: CANONBURY
Lord, Speak to Me, That I May Speak
Make Me a Captive, Lord
Author: George Matheson Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 120 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:1 Lyrics: 1. Make me a captive, Lord,
and then I shall be free.
Force me to render up my sword,
and I shall conqueror be.
I sink in life's alarms
when by myself I stand;
imprison me within thine arms,
and strong shall be my hand.
2. My heart is weak and poor
until it master find;
it has no spring of action sure,
it varies with the wind.
It cannot freely move
till thou hast wrought its chain;
enslave it with thy matchless love,
and deathless it shall reign.
3. My power is faint and low
till I have learned to serve;
it lacks the needed fire to glow,
it lacks the breeze to nerve.
It cannot drive the world
until itself be driven;
its flag can only be unfurled
when thou shalt breathe from heaven.
4. My will is not my own
till thou hast made it thine;
if it would reach a monarch's throne,
it must its crown resign.
It only stands unbent
amid the clashing strife,
when on thy bosom it has leant,
and found in thee its life.
Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Personal Holiness; Aspiration and Resolve; Commitment; Jesus Christ Presence; Trust Used With Tune: DIADEMATA
Make Me a Captive, Lord
O Love of God, How Strong and True
Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 110 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Lyrics: 1 O love of God, how strong and true!
eternal and yet ever new,
uncomprehended and unbought,
beyond all knowledge and all thought!
O love of God, how deep and great,
far deeper than man's deepest hate;
self-fed, self-kindled like the light,
changeless, eternal, infinite.
2 O heav'nly love, how precious still,
in days of weariness and ill,
in nights of pain and helplessness,
to heal, to comfort, and to bless!
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.
We read your pow'r to bless and save,
e'en in the darkness of the grave;
still more in resurrection light
we read the fulness of your might.
4 O love of God, our shield and stay
through all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in you we rest,
forever safe, forever blest.
We will exalt you, God and King,
and we will ever praise your name;
we will extol you ev'ry day,
and evermore your praise proclaim.
Topics: God His Love and Grace; Christ Substitute; God Incomprehensibility of; God Infinity of; God in Nature; Preparatory Service; Union with Christ Used With Tune: JERUSALEM (PARRY)
O Love of God, How Strong and True
Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service
Author: Albert F. Bayly Appears in 50 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:18 First Line: Lord, whose love in humble service bore the weight of human need Topics: Inner Healing; Physical Hunger; Jesus Christ Earthly Life and Ministry; Justice; Missions; Social Concerns; Stewardship Of Possessions; Worship
Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service
Mothering God, you gave me birth
Author: Jean Janzen (b. 1933) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16-19 Topics: God in Trinity; God names and imags of Used With Tune: MOTHER JULIAN
Mothering God, you gave me birth
You Are Called to Tell the Story
Author: Ruth Duck, b. 1947 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:14 Topics: Sharing Used With Tune: GHENT
You Are Called to Tell the Story
Dwelling Place
Author: John Foley, SJ, b. 1939 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-17 First Line: I fall on my knees to the Father of Jesus Refrain First Line: May Christ find a dwelling place Used With Tune: [I fall on my knees to the Father of Jesus]
Dwelling Place
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Author: Ray Palmer Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 2,208 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:12 Lyrics: 1 My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Savior divine.
Now hear me while I pray;
Take all my guilt away;
Oh, let me from this day
Be wholly Thine!
2 May Thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart;
My zeal inspire!
As Thou hast died for me,
Oh, may my love to Thee
Pure, warm, and changeless be,
A living fire!
3 While life's dark maze I tread
And griefs around me spread,
Be Thou my Guide.
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
4 When ends life's transient dream,
When death's cold, sullen stream
Shall o'er me roll,
Blest Savior, then, in love,
Fear and distrust remove;
Oh, bear me safe above,
A ransomed soul!
Amen. Topics: Sanctification (The Christian Life) Consecration Used With Tune: OLIVET
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Love Divine
Author: Chas. Wesley Appears in 1,864 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: Love divine, all love excelling Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art:
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every trembling heart.
2 Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
Into every troubled breast;
Let us all in thee inherit,
Let us find the promised rest.
Take away the love of sinning,
Take our load of guilt away;
End the work of thy beginning—
Bring us to eternal day. Used With Tune: [Love divine, all love excelling]
Love Divine
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Author: Frederick W. Faber Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 900 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:18-19 Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness in his justice
which is more than liberty.
2 There is welcome for the sinner
and more graces for the good;
there is mercy with the Savior;
there is healing in his blood.
3 For the love of God is broader
than the measure of our mind;
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
4 If our love were but more simple,
we would take him at his word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.
Topics: Redemption in Christ Christ's Saving Work; God Justice; God Mercy; Love Our Love of God Used With Tune: WELLESLEY
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
The minister's only business
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 299 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:8 First Line: Jesus, the Name high over all Topics: Institutions of the Gospel The Ministry
The minister's only business
Thou Hidden Love Of God
Author: John Wesley; Gerhard Tersteegen Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 265 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:18-19 First Line: Thou hidden Love of God, whose height Topics: The Christian Life; Christian Holiness Inward Cleansing
Thou Hidden Love Of God
Come Down, O Love Divine
Author: Bianco da Siena, 1350?-1434?; Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833-1890 Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 109 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21 Topics: Christian Character; Love; The Holy Spirit; Yearning Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY
Come Down, O Love Divine
Not Far Beyond the Sea
Author: George B. Caird Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-18 First Line: Not far beyond the sea, nor high Used With Tune: GANGES
Not Far Beyond the Sea
El amor de Cristo
Appears in 1,891 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 First Line: ¿Quién nos separará de amor de Cristo? Topics: Amor de Dios; Love Of God; Cristo Su Amor; Christ His love
El amor de Cristo
This is my story, this is my song
Author: Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby (1820-1915) Meter: 9.9.9.9 with refrain Appears in 1,061 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:6 First Line: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Lyrics: 1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God;
born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.
Refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Saviour all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Saviour all the day long.
2 Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture burst on my sight;
angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain]
3 Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Saviour am happy and blest;
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Discipleship; Adoration Of Jesus; Assurance; Salvation and Redemption Used With Tune: BLESSED ASSURANCE
This is my story, this is my song
More Love to Thee
Author: Elizabeth P. Prentiss Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.6.4.4 Appears in 820 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: More love to thee, O Christ Refrain First Line: More love, O Christ to Thee Used With Tune: [More love to Thee, O Christ]
More Love to Thee
Spirit Divine, Inspire Our Prayer
Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 393 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16 Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, inspire our prayer
and make our hearts your home;
descend with all your gracious power;
come, Holy Spirit, come!
2 Come as the light; reveal our need,
our hidden failings show,
and lead us in those paths of life
whereon the righteous go.
3 Come as the fire and cleanse our hearts
with purifying flame;
let our whole life an offering be
to our Redeemer's name.
4 Come as the dove and spread your wings,
the wings of peace and love,
until your church on earth below
joins with your church above.
Topics: Illumination; Pentecost and Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit; Illumination; Pentecost; Prayer; Sanctification Used With Tune: GRÄFENBERG
Spirit Divine, Inspire Our Prayer
Immortal Love
Author: John G. Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 305 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 First Line: Immortal Love, forever full Topics: Christ Adoration Used With Tune: FINGAL
Immortal Love
Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
Author: John Cosin (1594-1672) Meter: Irregular Appears in 238 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:16 Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
and lighten with celestial fire;
thou the anointing Spirit art,
who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart.
2 Thy blessèd unction from above
is comfort, life, and fire of love;
enable with perpetual light
the dullness of our blinded sight.
3 Anoint and cheer our soilèd face
with the abundance of thy grace;
keep far from foes, give peace at home:
where thou art guide no ill can come.
4 Teach us to know the Father, Son,
and thee, of both to be but One,
that through the ages all along
this may be our endless song,
'Praise to thine eternal merit,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.' Amen. Topics: The Holy Spirit The Coming of the Spirit; The Church Celebrates Ordination; Christian Year Pentecost; Holy Spirit illunination of; Ordination Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR Text Sources: 9th century
Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
My song is love unknown
Author: Samuel Crossman, 1624-1683 Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 127 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown,
my Saviour’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I,
that for my sake
my Lord should take
frail flesh, and die?
2 He came from His blest throne,
salvation to bestow;
but men made strange, and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But O, my Friend,
my Friend indeed,
who at my need
his life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King.
Then 'Crucify!'
is all their breath,
and for His death
they thirst and cry.
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
yet they at these
themselves displease,
and 'gainst him rise.
5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful he
to suffering goes,
that he his foes
from thence might free.
6 In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death, no friendly tomb
but what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heaven was his home;
but mine the tomb
wherein he lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing:
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine!
This is my Friend,
in whose sweet praise
I all my days
could gladly spend. Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week; Lent V Year B; Palm Sunday Year A; Palm Sunday Year C; Good Friday; Proper 8 Year C Used With Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN
My song is love unknown
Wonderful Love of Jesus
Author: E. D. Mund Appears in 65 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: In vain in high and holy lays Refrain First Line: Wonderful love! wonderful love! Lyrics: 1 In vain in high and holy lays
My soul her grateful voice would raise;
For who can sing the worthy praise
Of the wonderful love of Jesus?
Chorus:
Wonderful love! wonderful love!
Wonderful love of Jesus!
Wonderful love! wonderful love!
Wonderful love of Jesus!
2 A joy by day, a peace by night,
In storms a calm, in darkness light;
In pain a balm, in weakness might,
Is the wonderful love of Jesus! [Chorus]
3 My hope for pardon when I call,
My trust for lifting when I fall;
In life, in death, my all in all,
Is the wonderful love of Jesus! [Chorus]
Used With Tune: [In vain in high and holy lays] Text Sources: From "Holy Voices," by per.
Wonderful Love of Jesus
May the Mind of Christ My Savior
Author: Kate B. Wilkinson Meter: 8.7.8.5 Appears in 63 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Lyrics: 1 May the mind of Christ my Savior
live in me from day to day,
by his love and power controlling
all I do and say.
2 May the Word of God dwell richly
in my heart from hour to hour,
so that all may see I triumph
only through his power.
3 May the peace of God, my Father,
rule my life in everything,
that I may be calm to comfort
sick and sorrowing.
4 May the love of Jesus fill me
as the waters fill the sea,
him exalting, self abasing–
this is victory.
5 May I run the race before me,
strong and brave to face the foe,
looking only unto Jesus
as I onward go.
6 May his beauty rest upon me
as I seek the lost to win,
and may they forget the channel,
seeing only him. Topics: Jesus Christ Beauty; Commitment; Humility; Jesus Christ Beauty; Love Christ’s Love fro Us; Mind of Christ; Inner Peace; Submission; Word of God Used With Tune: ST. LEONARDS
May the Mind of Christ My Savior
The immensity of His grace
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:18 First Line: What shall I do my God to love? Topics: Provisions and Promises of the Gospel Used With Tune: BATEMAN
The immensity of His grace
Our Father, by Whose Name
Author: F. Bland Tucker Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8.8 Appears in 40 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:15 Topics: Children Hymns about; Family; Home Used With Tune: RHOSYMEDRE
Our Father, by Whose Name
Love, passing Knowledge
Author: Miss Mary Shekleton Meter: 10.10.10.10.4 Appears in 33 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine Topics: Christ Love of Used With Tune: AMOR CHRISTI
Love, passing Knowledge
El Amor De Jesucristo
Author: V. Mendoza Appears in 21 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 First Line: Del santo amor de Cristo que no tendrá su igual Refrain First Line: El amor de mi Señor Used With Tune: [Del santo amor de Cristo que no tendrá su igual]
El Amor De Jesucristo
Bring many names, beautiful and good
Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 9.10.11.9 Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-15 Lyrics: 1 Bring many names, beautiful and good,
celebrate, in parable and story,
holiness in glory,
living, loving God:
Hail and Hosanna!
Bring many names!
2 Strong mother God,
working night and day,
planning all the wonders of creation,
setting each equation,
genius at play:
Hail and Hosanna,
strong mother God!
3 Warm father God, hugging every child,
feeling all the strains of human living,
caring and forgiving
till we're reconciled:
Hail and Hosanna,
warm father God!
4 Old, aching God, grey with endless care,
calmly piercing evil's new disguises,
glad of good surprises,
wiser than despair:
Hail and Hosanna,
old, aching God!
5 Young, growing God, eager, on the move,
saying no to falsehood and unkindness,
crying out for justice,
giving all you have:
Hail and Hosanna,
young, growing God!
6 Great, living God, never fully known,
joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,
closer yet than breathing,
everlasting home:
Hail and Hosanna,
great, living God! Topics: The Living God The Being of God - Holy and One; Children; God names and imags of Used With Tune: WESTCHASE
Bring many names, beautiful and good
Cuando El Vino A Mi Corazón
Author: V. Mendoza Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17 First Line: Cuan glorioso es el cambio operado en mi sér Refrain First Line: El vino a mi corazón Used With Tune: [Cuan glorioso es el cambio operado en mi sér]
Cuando El Vino A Mi Corazón
Lord, you were rich beyond all splendour
Author: Frank Houghton (1894-1972) Meter: 9.8.9.8.9.8 Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:19 Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany; God Love of Used With Tune: QUELLE EST CETTE ODEUR AGRÉABLE
Lord, you were rich beyond all splendour
¡Gloria A Tí Jesús Divino!
Author: Desconocido Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:21 First Line: ¡Gloria a tí, Jesús Divino! Refrain First Line: ¡Gloria, gloria, aleluya! Used With Tune: [¡Gloria a tí, Jesús Divino!]
¡Gloria A Tí Jesús Divino!
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (죄짐맡은 우리구주)
Author: Joseph Scriven Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,695 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:12 First Line: What a friend we have in Jesus Lyrics: 1 What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit;
O what needless pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer!
2 Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer!
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer!
3 Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer!
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he’ll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.
Topics: Comfort; Encouragement; Faithfulness; Grief; Prayer; Temptation Used With Tune: CONVERSE Text Sources: Korean trans. The United Methodist Korean Hymnal Committee
What a Friend We Have in Jesus (죄짐맡은 우리구주)
Gloria Patri
Appears in 990 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:21 First Line: Glory be to the Father Topics: Invocations and Doxologies Used With Tune: [Glory be to the Father]
Gloria Patri
The Church's One Foundation
Author: Samuel J. Stone Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 861 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21 Lyrics: 1 The church’s one foundation
is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
she is his new creation
by water and the Word.
From heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood he bought her,
and for her life he died.
2 Elect from every nation,
yet one o’er all the earth;
her charter of salvation:
one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.
3 Though with a scornful wonder
the world sees her oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping;
their cry goes up: “How long?”
and soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.
4 Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace forevermore,
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest.
5 Yet she on earth has union
with God the Three in One,
and mystic sweet communion
with those whose rest is won:
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we,
like them, the meek and lowly,
may live eternally. Topics: The Church; The Cross; Cry to God; Election; Eternal Life; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Blood of; Jesus Christ Bridegroom; Unity in Christ; Unity of the Church; Victory Used With Tune: AURELIA
The Church's One Foundation
O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth
Author: Samuel Medley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 741 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:8 Lyrics: 1 O could I speak the matchless worth,
O could I sound the glories forth
Which in my Saviour shine!
I'd sing His glorious righteousness,
And magnify the wondrous grace
Which made salvation mine,
Which made salvation mine.
2 I'd sing the precious blood He spilt,
My ransom from the dreadful guilt
Of sin, and wrath divine;
I'd sing His glorious righteousness,
In which all perfect, heavenly dress
My soul shall ever shine,
My soul shall ever shine.
3 I'd sing the characters He bears,
And all the forms of love He wears,
Exalted on His throne:
In loftiest songs of sweetest praise,
I would to everlasting days
Make all His glories known,
Make all His glories known.
4 Soon, the delightful day will come
When my dear Lord will bring me home,
And I shall see His face;
Then with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
A blest eternity I'll spend,
Triumphant in His grace,
Triumphant in His grace.
Amen. Topics: Christ Adoration and Praise; Christ Beauty; Life Everlasting, The; Jesus Christ Adoration and Praise Used With Tune: ARIEL
O Could I Speak the Matchless Worth
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
Author: George Matheson Meter: 8.8.8.8.6 Appears in 679 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 3:17-19 Lyrics: 1 O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.
2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain
that morn shall tearless be.
4 O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be. Topics: Commitment; Eternal Life; Joy; Light; Living and Dying in Christ; Love of God for Us Used With Tune: ST. MARGARET
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
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