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My Jesus, I Love Thee
Author: William R. Featherstone Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 1,084 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God First Line: My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine Lyrics: 1 My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine;
for thee all the follies of sin I resign;
my gracious Redeemer, my Savior art thou;
if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
2 I love thee because thou hast first loved me
and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree;
I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow;
if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
3 I'll love thee in life, I will love thee in death,
and praise thee as long as thou lendest me breath,
and say when the deathdew lies cold on my brow:
If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
4 In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I'll ever adore thee in heaven so bright;
I'll sing with the glittering crown on my brow:
If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:8 Used With Tune: GORDON
My Jesus, I Love Thee
I Love to Tell the Story
Author: Katherine Hankey Appears in 1,213 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Used With Tune: HANKEY
I Love to Tell the Story
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 341 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God 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.
Scripture: Psalm 51:10-12 Used With Tune: MORECAMBE
Spirit of God, Who Dwells within My Heart
The Lord Jehovah reigns
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 267 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 The Lord Jehovah reigns,
his throne is built on high;
the garments he assumes
are light and majesty:
his glories shine with beams so bright
no mortal eye can bear the sight.
2 The thunders of his hand
keep the wide world in awe;
his wrath and justice stand
to guard his holy law;
and where his love resolves to bless
his truth confirms and seals his grace.
3 Through all his ancient works
amazing wisdom shines,
confounds the powers of hell
and breaks their cursed designs;
strong is his arm, and shall fulfil
his great decrees, his sovereign will.
4 And can this mighty King
of Glory condescend?
And will he write his name
My Father and my Friend?
I love his name, I love his word;
join, all my powers, and praise the Lord. Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:13-16 Used With Tune: ST JOHN
The Lord Jehovah reigns
There is a green hill far away
Author: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-95 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 695 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 There is a green hill far away,
outside a city wall,
where the dear Lord was crucified,
who died to save us all.
2 We may not know, we cannot tell,
what pains he had to bear,
but we believe it was for us
he hung and suffered there.
3 He died that we might be forgiven,
he died to make us good,
that we might go at last to heaven,
saved by his precious blood.
4 There was no other good enough
to pay the price of sin,
he only could unlock the gate
of heaven, and let us in.
5 O dearly, dearly has he loved,
and we must love him too,
and trust in his redeeming blood,
and try his works to do.
Scripture: 1 John 4:9-12 Used With Tune: HORSLEY
There is a green hill far away
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 1,999 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Used With Tune: HAMBURG
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
More Love to Thee, O Christ
Author: Elizabeth Prentiss Appears in 820 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God First Line: More love to Thee, O Christ, more love to Thee Used With Tune: MORE LOVE TO THEE
More Love to Thee, O Christ
Zion Stands with Hills Surrounded
Author: Thomas Kelly Appears in 397 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Used With Tune: ZION
Zion Stands with Hills Surrounded
Come down, O Love divine
Author: Bianco de Siena, d. 1434; Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833-90 Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 109 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 Come down, O Love divine,
seek now this soul of mine,
and visit it with our own ardour glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
within my heart appear
and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing.
2 There 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 Let holy charity
my outward garment be,
and lowliness become my inner clothing:
true lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part
and for its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
4 And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the power of human telling;
for none can guess its grace
till we become the place
in which the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling.
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY
Come down, O Love divine
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Author: Ray Palmer Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 2,208 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God 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.
O 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,
O 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 life's swift race is run,
death's cold work almost done,
be near to me.
Blest Savior, then in love
fear and distrust remove.
O bear me safe above,
redeemed and free!
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16 Used With Tune: OLIVET
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
Meter: Irregular Appears in 150 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God First Line: Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart Lyrics: 1 Lord, I want to be a Christian
in my heart, in my heart.
Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart.
2 Lord, I want to be more loving
in my heart, in my heart.
Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart.
3 Lord, I want to be more holy
in my heart, in my heart.
Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart.
4 Lord, I want to be like Jesus
in my heart, in my heart.
Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart.
In my heart, in my heart,
Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart.
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 Used With Tune: LORD, I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN Text Sources: Afro-American spiritual
Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Author: Paul Gerhardt; James W. Alexander Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 727 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 O sacred head, now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down,
now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, your only crown.
O sacred head, what glory
and blessing you have known!
Yet, though despised and gory,
I claim you as my own.
2 My Lord, what you did suffer
was all for sinners' gain;
mine, mine was the transgression,
but yours the deadly pain.
So here I kneel, my Savior,
for I deserve your place;
look on me with your favor
and save me by your grace.
3 What language shall I borrow
to thank you, dearest Friend,
for this, your dying sorrow,
your mercy without end?
Lord, make me yours forever,
a loyal servant true,
and let me never, never
outlive my love for you.
Scripture: Isaiah 53:3-6 Used With Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN Text Sources: Latin, medieval
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Jesus Calls Us; O'er the Tumult
Author: Cecil F. Alexander Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 927 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God Lyrics:
1 Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult
of our life's wild, restless sea,
day by day his voice is sounding,
saying, "Christian, follow me."
2 Long ago apostles heard it
by the Galilean lake,
turned from home and work and family,
leaving all for his dear sake.
3 In our joys and in our sorrows,
days of work and hours of ease,
still he calls, in cares and pleasures,
"Christian, love me more than these."
4 Jesus calls us; by your mercies,
Savior, may we hear your call,
give our hearts to your obedience,
serve and love you best of all.
Scripture: Matthew 4:18-20 Used With Tune: HALTON HOLGATE
Jesus Calls Us; O'er the Tumult
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1811-75 Appears in 145 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
bow down before him, his glory proclaim;
gold of obedience and incense of lowliness
bring, and adore him: the Lord is his name.
2 Low at his feet lay your burden of carefulness,
high on his heart he will bear it for you,
comfort your sorrows, and answer your prayerfulness,
guiding your steps in the way best for you.
3 Fear not to enter his courts in the slenderness
of the poor wealth you would reckon to own:
truth in its beauty and love in its tenderness,
these are the offerings to bring to his throne.
4 These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness,
he will accept for the name that is dear,
mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness,
trust for our trembling and hope for our fear.
5 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
bow down before him, his glory proclaim;
gold of obedience and incense of lowliness,
bring, and adore him: the Lord is his name.
Scripture: 1 Chronicles 16:29-33 Used With Tune: WAS LEBET
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
O thou who camest from above
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 176 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 O thou who camest from above
the pure celestial fire to impart,
kindle a flame of sacred love
on the mean altar of my heart.
2 There let it for thy glory burn
with inextinguishable blaze,
and trembling to its source return,
in humble prayer and fervent praise.
3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
to work, and speak, and think for thee;
still let me guard the holy fire,
and still stir up thy gift in me,
4 ready for all thy perfect will,
my acts of faith and love repeat,
till death thy endless mercies seal,
and make the sacrifice complete. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 Used With Tune: HEREFORD
O thou who camest from above
God of freedom, God of justice
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 12 hymnals 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 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. Scripture: 1 John 3:14-17 Used With Tune: TREDEGAR
God of freedom, God of justice
Morning glory, starlit sky
Author: William Hubert Vanstone, 1923- Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Art and Learning; Gifts in Creation; God's Love to Us; Gratitude; Jesus Christ Passion and Cross; Mercy of God; Our Love to Others; Providence Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:9 Used With Tune: KENOSIS
Morning glory, starlit sky
Completely Yes
Author: Sandra Crouch Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Order of Service Response to the Word; Aspiration and Resolve; Baptism, Confirmation and Dedication; Choruses; Commitment and Submission; Discipleship; God Our Love For God; Jesus Christ Our Love For Jesus; Surrender First Line: Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Used With Tune: [Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord!]
Completely Yes
I would love thee, God and Father
Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: Consecration; God as Guide; God Our King; Love to God, Christ; God the Father Love and Care Scripture: Psalm 18:1-3 Used With Tune: NORMAN Text Sources: French
I would love thee, God and Father
I Love Your Church, O Lord
Author: Timothy Dwight Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,325 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God Lyrics:
1 I love your church, O Lord!
Her saints before you stand,
dear as the apple of your eye,
and graven on your hand.
2 Beyond my highest joy
I prize her heavenly ways,
her sweet communion, solemn vows,
her hymns of love and praise.
3 I love your church, O God,
the people you have called,
the church our blest Redeemer saved
with his own precious blood.
Scripture: Psalm 17:8 Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS
I Love Your Church, O Lord
God of mercy, God of grace
Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 198 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 God of mercy, God of grace,
show the brightness of your face;
shine upon us, Saviour, shine,
fill your church with light divine;
and your saving health extend
unto earth's remotest end.
2 Let the people praise you, Lord!
be by all that live adored;
let the nations shout and sing
glory to their Saviour king;
at your feet their tribute pay,
and your holy will obey.
3 Let the people praise you, Lord!
earth shall then its fruits afford;
God to us his blessing give,
we to God devoted live:
all below, and all above,
one in joy and light and love. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:4-7 Used With Tune: HEATHLANDS
God of mercy, God of grace
There Is a Name I Love to Hear
Author: Frederick Whitfield Appears in 571 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Refrain First Line: O how I love Jesus Used With Tune: OH, HOW I LOVE JESUS
There Is a Name I Love to Hear
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
Author: John Wesley; Paul Gerhardt Appears in 347 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me
Saviour, Teach Me Day by Day
Author: Jane E. Leeson Appears in 459 hymnals Topics: Love—Our Love to God Used With Tune: INNOCENTS
Saviour, Teach Me Day by Day
Pass It On
Author: K. K. Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Love God's Love; Love Our Love for Others; The Christian Life Salvation; Invitation To Salvation; Revival; Testimony; Young Adult First Line: It only takes a spark to get a fire going Used With Tune: [It only takes a spark to get a fire going]
Pass It On
Father, I Adore You
Author: Terrye Coelho Meter: 6.6.4 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God Used With Tune: MARANATHA
Father, I Adore You
King of glory, King of peace
Author: George Herbert, 1593-1633 Meter: 7.4.7.4 D Appears in 59 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 King of glory, King of peace,
I will love thee;
and, that love may never cease,
I will move thee.
Thou hast granted my request,
thou hast heard me;
thou didst note my working breast,
thou hast spared me.
2 Wherefore with my utmost art
I will sing thee,
and the cream of all my heart
I will bring thee.
Though my sins against me cried,
thou didst clear me;
and alone, when they replied,
thou didst hear me.
3 Seven whole days, not one in seven,
I will praise thee;
in my heart, though not in heaven,
I can raise thee.
Small it is, in this poor sort
to enroll thee:
ev'n eternity's too short
to extol thee. Scripture: 1 John 4:16-21 Used With Tune: GWALCHMAI
King of glory, King of peace
Love God with All Your Soul and Strength
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God Lyrics: Love God with all your soul and strength,
with all your heart and mind.
And love your neighbor as yourself;
be faithful, just, and kind.
Scripture: Numbers 6:24-26 Used With Tune: FARRANT
Love God with All Your Soul and Strength
The Moral Perfection of Deity imitated
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: God; Love To our enemies; Perfections of God Moral perfections imitated First Line: Great Author of th' immortal mind! Lyrics: 1 Great Author of th' immortal mind!
For noblest thoughts and views design'd;
Make me ambitious to express
The image of thy holiness.
2 While I thy boundless love admire,
Grant me to catch the sacred fire;
Thus shall my heavenly birth be known,
And for thy child thou wilt me own.
3 Father, I see thy sun arise
To cheer thy friends and enemies;
And when thy rain from Heaven descends,
Thy bounty both alike befriends.
4 Enlarge my soul with love like thine;
My moral powers by grace refine;
So shall I feel another's woe,
And cheerful feed an hungry foe.
5 I hope for pardon through thy Son,
For all the crimes which I have done:
O, may the grace that pardons me
Constrain me to forgive like thee! Scripture: Matthew 5:48
The Moral Perfection of Deity imitated
Kyrie/Lord Have Mercy
Author: Kathleen Hart Brumm, b. 1958 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Broken-hearted; Church Year Ash Wednesday; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Lent; Church Year Pentecost; Church Year Transfiguration; Cry to God; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Elements of Worship Assurance of Pardon; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Offering; Endurance; Forgiveness; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God as Spirit; God's Wisdom; God's Face; God's Forgiveness; God's Goodness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Protection; Grace; Guilt; Humility; Joy; Judgment; Lord's Prayer 5th petition (forgive us our sins as we forgive…); Mercy; Offering of Sacrifice; Renewal; Servants of God; Sorrow; Suffering; Ten Commandments 7th Commandmnet (do not commit adultery); The Fall; Year A, B, C, Lent, Ash Wednesday; Year B, Lent, 5th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September, 11-17 First Line: Kyrie, Kyrie, Lord have mercy Scripture: Psalm 51 Used With Tune: [Kyrie, Kyrie, Lord have mercy]
Kyrie/Lord Have Mercy
Have Mercy on Me, O God
Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Broken-hearted; Church Year Ash Wednesday; Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Lent; Church Year Pentecost; Church Year Transfiguration; Cry to God; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Elements of Worship Assurance of Pardon; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Offering; Endurance; Forgiveness; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God as Spirit; God's Wisdom; God's Face; God's Forgiveness; God's Goodness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Protection; Grace; Guilt; Humility; Joy; Judgment; Lord's Prayer 5th petition (forgive us our sins as we forgive…); Mercy; Offering of Sacrifice; Renewal; Servants of God; Sorrow; Suffering; Ten Commandments 7th Commandmnet (do not commit adultery); The Fall; Year A, B, C, Lent, Ash Wednesday; Year B, Lent, 5th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September, 11-17 First Line: My offenses truly I know them Lyrics: Refrain:
Have mercy on me, O God, in your kindness.
In your compassion, blot out my offense.
Wash me, O God, from the stain of my guilt,
and cleanse me from my sin.
1 My offenses truly I know them.
My sin is always before me.
Against you alone have I sinned.
What is evil in your sight I have done. [Refrain]
2 Create in me a pure heart;
put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your Spirit. [Refrain]
3 Defend me, O God, my Savior.
My tongue shall sing out your goodness.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. [Refrain]
Scripture: Psalm 51:3-6 Used With Tune: [My offenses truly I know them]
Have Mercy on Me, O God
As the deer pants for the water
Author: Martin Nystrom, 1956- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.9.8.7 Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Psalm 28 Used With Tune: AS THE DEER PANTS
As the deer pants for the water
My Jesus, my Saviour
Author: Darlene Zschech Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Acts 2:22-36 Used With Tune: SHOUT TO THE LORD
My Jesus, my Saviour
Where there is charity and love
Author: Richard Connolly, 1927- Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God First Line: The love of Christ has gathered us as one Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Used With Tune: JEREMY Text Sources: Office of the Mandatum
Where there is charity and love
Jesus, my Lord
Author: Howard Charles Adie Gaunt, 1902-83 Meter: 4.5.4.5 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Colossians 3:16-17 Used With Tune: LITTLE VENICE
Jesus, my Lord
How shall I sing to God
Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 6.7.4.4.5.6.6.9 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 How shall I sing to God
when life is filled with gladness,
loving and birth,
wonder and worth?
I'll sing from the heart,
thankfully receiving,
joyful in believing.
This is my song, I'll sing it with love.
2 How shall I sing to God
when life is filled with bleakness,
empty and chill,
breaking my will?
I'll sing through my pain,
angrily or aching,
crying or complaining
This is my song, I'll sing it with love.
3 How shall I sing to God
and tell my Saviour's story:
passover bread,
life from the dead?
I'll sing with my life,
witnessing and giving,
risking and forgiving.
This is my song, I'll sing it with love. Scripture: Colossians 3:14-15 Used With Tune: WEAVER MILL
How shall I sing to God
A spendthrift lover is the Lord
Author: Thomas Henry Troeger, 1945- Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:15 Used With Tune: SPENDTHRIFT LOVER
A spendthrift lover is the Lord
I will walk in the presence of the Lord
Author: Helen L. Wright, 1927- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Our Love to God First Line: I love the Lord who has heard my prayer Lyrics: Response:
I will walk in the presence of the Lord
in the land of the living.
1 I love the Lord who has heard my prayer,
who bends down to hear my call
The cords of death entangled me:
the grip of the grave took hold of me.
2 Then I called on the name of the Lord,
"I beg you, save my soul!"
Our Lord is gracious and just,
our God is merciful. [Response]
3 How can I repay the Lord
for the goodness done for me?
The cup of salvation I raise,
and call on the name of the Lord.
4 To the Lord I will pay my vows
before all the people.
How precious the death of the saints,
those who remain faithful to God! [Response]
5 Lord God, I am your slave
the child of a faithful mother.
You have loosed my bonds,
you have set me free. [Response]
6 A sacrifice of thanks I bring
and call on your name.
To the Lord I will pay my vows
before all the people. [Response]
7 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the courts of God!
In the midst of Jerusalem.
Alleluia! [Response]
Used With Tune: PSALM 116
I will walk in the presence of the Lord
Father in heaven, who lovest all
Author: Rudyard Kipling, 1865- Appears in 81 hymnals Topics: Saints Trials of; Saints Trials of; Children Hope of the future; The Church and the Kingdom of God National Life; Fatherhood, of God; God Father, our ; Youth; Yoke, Christ's easy ; Native Land Love for ; Land, our native; Temperance; Loyalty To Country Lyrics: [Land of our birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be,
When we are grown and take our place
As men and women with our race.]
1 Father in heaven, who lovest all,
O help Thy children when they call;
That they may build from age to age
An undefiled heritage.
2 Teach us to bear the yoke in youth,
With steadfastness and careful truth;
That, in our time, Thy grace may give
The truth whereby the nations live.
3 Teach us to rule ourselves alway,
Controlled and cleanly night and day;
That we may bring, if need arise,
No maimed or worthless sacrifice.
4 Teach us to look in all our ends
On Thee for Judge, and not our friends;
That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed
By fear or favour of the crowd.
5 Teach us the strength that cannot seek,
By deed or thought, to hurt the weak;
That, under Thee, we may possess
Man's strength to comfort man's distress.
6 Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men 'neath the sun.
[Land of our birth, our faith, our pride,
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
O Motherland, we pledge to thee
Head, heart, and hand through the years to be.]
Used With Tune: ARIZONA
Father in heaven, who lovest all
Bless the Lord, my soul
Author: Taizé Community Meter: 5.6.5.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Psalm 103:1-9 Used With Tune: BLESS THE LORD
Bless the Lord, my soul
The Lord is near to all who call on him
Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Psalm 71:1-8 Used With Tune: PSALM 71 Text Sources: Tr.: The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church
The Lord is near to all who call on him
Refresh my heart, Lord
Author: Geoffrey William Bullock, 1955- Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Our Love to God Scripture: Ezekiel 11:19-20 Used With Tune: REFRESH MY HEART
Refresh my heart, Lord
Lord Jesus Christ
Author: Patrick Robert Norman Appleford, 1925- Meter: 4.5.5.3.8.8.8.3 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Used With Tune: LIVING LORD
Lord Jesus Christ
I've Come to Tell
Author: Juan M. Isáis; Frank Sawyer Meter: Irregular Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Love Our Love to God; Love Our Love to God First Line: I've come to tell, I've come to tell, O Savior divine (Te Vengo a decir, te vengo a decir, oh buen Savlador) Used With Tune: TE VENGO
I've Come to Tell
How can I repay the Lord
Author: Helen L. Wright, 1927- Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: Response 2:
How can I repay the Lord,
for all his benefits to me?
1 I love the Lord who has heard my prayer,
who bends down to hear my call
The cords of death entangled me:
the grip of the grave took hold of me.
2 Then I called on the name of the Lord,
"I beg you, save my soul!"
Our Lord is gracious and just,
our God is merciful. [Response]
3 How can I repay the Lord
for the goodness done for me?
The cup of salvation I raise,
and call on the name of the Lord.
4 To the Lord I will pay my vows
before all the people.
How precious the death of the saints,
those who remain faithful to God! [Response]
5 Lord God, I am your slave
the child of a faithful mother.
You have loosed my bonds,
you have set me free. [Response]
6 A sacrifice of thanks I bring
and call on your name.
To the Lord I will pay my vows
before all the people. [Response]
7 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the courts of God!
In the midst of Jerusalem.
Alleluia! [Response] Used With Tune: PSALM 116
How can I repay the Lord
God! When human bonds are broken
Author: Frederik Herman Kaan, 1929- Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Our Love to God Lyrics: 1 God! When human bonds are broken
and we lack the love or skill
to restore the hope of healing,
give us grace and make us still.
2 Through that stillness, with your Spirit
come into our world of stress,
for the sake of Christ forgiving;
all the failures we confess.
3 You in us are bruised and broken:
hear us as we seek release
from the pain of earlier living;
set us free and grant us peace.
4 Send us, God of new beginnings,
humbly hopeful into life.
Use us as a means of blessing:
make us stronger, give us faith.
5 Give us faith to be more faithful,
give us hope to be more true,
give us love to go on learning:
God! Encourage and renew! Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Used With Tune: MEADWAY
God! When human bonds are broken
Psalm 34 (A Responsorial Setting)
Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Angels; Bread of Life; Church Year All Saints' Day; Church Year Maundy Thursday; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Morning Prayer; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Disciples / Calling; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Endurance; Faith; God Trust in; God as Refuge; God as Healer; God's Seeing; God's Armor; God's Love; God's Name; God's Nearness; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Presence; God's Promises; Grace; Gratitude; Integrity; Judgment; Lord's Prayer 4th petition (give us today our daily bread); Peace; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; People of God / Church Witnessing; Prayer Answer to; Prayer; Rejoicing; Salvation; Seeking God; Servants of God; Victory; Wisdom Psalms; Witness; Year A, All Saints' Day, November 1; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 14-20; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 21-27; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 23-29 First Line: I will bless the Lord, the Lord at all times Scripture: Psalm 34 Used With Tune: [I will bless the Lord, the Lord at all times] Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)
Psalm 34 (A Responsorial Setting)
Great God, your love has called us here
Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; Christ Incarnate Passion and Death; Lent; Christian Year Maundy Thursday; Church Worship; God Love of; Renewal Lyrics: 1 Great God, your love has called us here
as we, by love, for love were made.
Your living likeness still we bear,
though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed.
We come, with all our heart and mind
your call to hear, your love to find.
2 We come with self-inflicted pains
of broken trust and chosen wrong,
half-free, half-bound by inner chains,
by social forces swept along,
by powers and systems close confined,
yet seeking hope for humankind.
3 Great God, in Christ you call our name
and then receive us as your own,
not through some merit, right or claim,
but by your gracious love alone.
We strain to glimpse your mercy seat
and find you kneeling at our feet.
4 Then take the towel, and break the bread,
and humble us, and call us friends.
Suffer and serve till all are fed,
and show how grandly love intends
to work till all creation sings,
to fill all worlds, to crown all things.
5 Great God, in Christ you set us free
your life to live, your joy to share.
Give us your Spirit's liberty
to turn from guilt and dull despair
and offer all that faith can do
while love is making all things new. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:17 Used With Tune: MELITA
Great God, your love has called us here
Thou Hidden Love of God
Author: John Wesley (1703-1791); Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 265 hymnals Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in adoration and gratitude; God Love of; Longing First Line: Thou hidden love of God, whose height Lyrics: 1 Thou hidden love of God, whose height,
whose depth unfathomed, no one knows,
I see from far thy beauteous light,
inly I sigh for thy repose;
my heart is pained, nor can it be
at rest till it finds rest in thee.
2 Thy secret voice invites me still
the sweetness of thy yoke to prove;
and fain I would; but, though my will
seem fixed, yet wide my passions rove;
yet hindrances strew all the way;
I aim at thee, yet from thee stray.
3 'Tis mercy all, that thou hast brought
my mind to seek its peace in thee;
yet, while I seek but find thee not,
no peace my wandering soul shall see.
Oh, when shall all my wanderings end,
and all my steps to thee-ward tend?
4 Is there a thing beneath the sun
that strives with thee my heart to share?
Ah! tear it thence, and reign alone,
the Lord of every motion there;
then shall my heart from earth be free,
when it hath found repose in thee. Scripture: 1 John 5:21 Used With Tune: ST. PETERSBURG
Thou Hidden Love of God
There's a wideness in God's mercy
Author: Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 900 hymnals Topics: The Living God Our Response to God - in adoration and gratitude; God in glory; God in grace and mercy; God Love of 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 no place where earth's sorrows
are more felt than in God's heaven:
there is no place where earth's failings
have such kindly judgment given.
3 For the love of God is broader
than the measure of the mind;
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
4 If our love were but more faithful,
we should take him at his word;
and our life be filled with glory
from the glory of the Lord. Scripture: 1 John 4:16 Used With Tune: ALL FOR JESUS
There's a wideness in God's mercy
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