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Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Author: Henry Alford Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 731 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.
2 All the world is God’s own field,
Fruit unto God's praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.
3 For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take the harvest home;
From each field shall in that day
All offenses purge away;
Give the angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast,
But the fruitful ears to store
In God's garner evermore.
4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To Thy final harvest home;
Gather Thou Thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There forever purified,
In Thy presence to abide:
Come, with all Thine angels come,
Raise the glorious harvest home.
Topics: Consummation Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
The reign of God, like farmer's field
Author: Delores Dufner, OSB Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-33 Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Public Ministry; Jesus Teaching; Kingdom of God Used With Tune: LAND OF REST
The reign of God, like farmer's field
La Palabra Hoy Sembrada
Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:18-24 Refrain First Line: Ricos frutos Used With Tune: [La palabra hoy sembrada]
La Palabra Hoy Sembrada
God the sculptor of the mountains
Author: John Thornburg (b. 1954) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-60 Topics: Hymns and Spiritual Songs Threefold God: God Used With Tune: SANDRIA
God the sculptor of the mountains
O quam juvat
Author: Robert Bridges, 1844-1930; Charles Coffin, 1676-1749 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 30 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-28 First Line: Happy are they, they that love God Lyrics: 1 Happy are they, they that love God,
whose hearts have Christ confest,
who by his cross have found their life,
and 'neath his yoke their rest.
2 Glad is the praise, sweet are the songs,
when they together sing;
and strong the prayers that bow the ear
of heaven's eternal King.
3 Christ to their homes giveth his peace,
and makes their loves his own:
but ah, what tares the evil one
hath in his garden sown!
4 Sad were our lot, evil this earth,
did not its sorrows prove
the path whereby the sheep may find
the fold of Jesus' love.
5 Then shall they know, they that love him,
how all their pain is good;
and death itself cannot unbind
their happy brotherhood.
Topics: Proper 11 Year A; Proper 15 Year A Used With Tune: BINCHESTER
O quam juvat
The kingdom of God
Author: Bryn Rees, 1911-1983 Meter: 5.5.5.5.6.5.6.5 Appears in 23 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-52 Topics: The Ministry of Jesus Christ Used With Tune: TETHERDOWN
The kingdom of God
Almighty God, Your Word is Cast
Author: John Cawood, 1775-1852 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 222 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:18-24 Lyrics: 1 Almighty God, Your Word is cast
Like seed into the ground;
Now let the dew of heav'n descend
And righteous fruits abound.
2 Let not the sly satanic foe
This holy seed remove,
But give it root in ev'ry heart
To bring forth fruits of love.
3 Let not the world's deceitful cares
The rising plant destroy,
But let it yield a hundredfold
The fruits of peace and joy.
4 So when the precious seed is sown,
Life-giving grace bestow
That all whose souls the truth receive
Its saving pow'r may know.
Topics: The Word of God; Close of Service Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN
Almighty God, Your Word is Cast
Oh, Where are the Reapers
Author: Eben E. Rexford Appears in 124 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:30 First Line: O we are the reapers that garner in Refrain First Line: Where are the reapers Used With Tune: [O we are the reapers that garner in]
Oh, Where are the Reapers
I Am the Bread of Life
Author: Suzanne Toolan, b. 1927 Appears in 35 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13 Refrain First Line: And I will raise them up Topics: Easter and Ascension Used With Tune: [I am the bread of life]
I Am the Bread of Life
Your Kingdom, O God, Is My Glorious Treasure
Author: David W. Rogner, b. 1960 Meter: 12.8.12.8 D Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-33 Used With Tune: GLORIOUS TREASURE
Your Kingdom, O God, Is My Glorious Treasure
Christ's Church Shall Glory in His Power
Author: Christopher Idle, b. 1938 Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13 First Line: Christ's church shall glory in his pow'r Lyrics: 1 Christ’s church shall glory in his pow'r
And grow to his perfection;
He is our rock, our mighty tow'r
Our life, our resurrection:
So by his skillful hand
The church of Christ shall stand;
The master-builder's plan
He works, as he began,
And soon will crown with splendor.
2 Christ's people serve his wayward world
To whom he seems a stranger;
He knows its welcome from of old,
He shares our joy, our danger:
So strong, and yet so weak,
The church of Christ shall speak;
His cross our greatest need,
His word the vital seed
That brings a fruitful harvest.
3 Christ's living lamp shall brightly burn,
And to our earthly city
Forgotten beauty shall return,
And purity and pity:
To give the oppressed their right
The church of Christ shall fight;
And though the years seem long
He is our strength and song,
And he is our salvation.
Topics: Ordinary Time 21, Year A; Christ the King; Church; Cross; Freedom; Jesus Christ; Light; Poverty; Service; Social Concern; Song; Unity; Word of God Used With Tune: EIN' FESTE BURG
Christ's Church Shall Glory in His Power
Beyond the Beauty and the Awe
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13 Lyrics: 1 Beyond the beauty and the awe,
beyond the fear and dread,
we long, O God, to hear your word,
to taste your transformed bread.
2 Our lives feel torn between the world,
whose needs are grimly real,
and empty talk of peace and joy
with distant, vague appeal.
3 Oh, teach us how to hear your voice
despite the traffic’s din,
to keep the blasts of rancor out
and let your Spirit in.
4 In sound or silence, sight or smell,
may we some token find
that makes your living presence known
to body, soul, and mind.
5 Then help us live as Jesus taught,
as light and salt and yeast,
that others may be brought to share
your promise and your feast.
Topics: Illumination and Guidance; Illumination and Guidance Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN
Beyond the Beauty and the Awe
Ye Christian men pray notice well!
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Lyrics: 1 Ye Christian men pray notice well!
Our Saviour in the Parable
Does clearly prove and plainly show,
What Satan in the Church can do.
2 The Church is to a field compar'd,
Well cultivated and prepar'd:
And where the Gospel truth is b'liev'd,
There is the Gospel seed receiv'd.
3 But when the watchmen fall to sleep,
And they neglect their guard to keep,
The enemy soon interfer's,
And sows the field with seeds of tares.
4 Such ever was the Churches case,
The formal Christian void of grace:
Is like the tares among the wheat,
When rightly prov'd is but a cheat.
5 But lest the wheat be pluck'd up too,
The tares among the wheat must grow:
There to remain till harvest day,
Till they are search'd and cast away.
6 This Parable will shew us plain,
That Saints and Sinners will remain:
As members of his Church and State,
Till Jesus comes to separate.
7 How careful then ought we attend!
To watch and pray unto the end;
Till all our trials shall be past,
Lest we should prove but tares at last. Topics: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Ye Christian men pray notice well!
Listen now for the Gospel
Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:9-43 First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone Lyrics: Refrain:
Listen now for the Gospel!
Alleluia!
It is God's word that changes us!
Alleluia!
1 Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone
until we give our lives to God and God alone.
2 Come, Holy Spirit, root in us God's living word,
that we may show the faithfulness of Christ our Lord.
3 Come, Holy Spirit, bind the broken, find the lost,
confirm in us the fire and love of Pentecost. Topics: Short Songs; The Holy Spirit in the Church Illumination of God's Word; Gospel Call; Holy Spirit illunination of; Multi-cultrual and World-church Songs; Word of God Used With Tune: [Come, Holy Spirit, melt and break our hearts of stone] Text Sources: Zimbabwean liturgical acclamation
Listen now for the Gospel
As Trees from Tiny Seeds Can Grow
Author: Jane Parker Huber Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13 First Line: [As Trees from Tiny Seeds Can Grow] Text Sources: A Singing Faith (The Westminster Press, 1987)
As Trees from Tiny Seeds Can Grow
The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 583 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-33 Topics: Our Journey With God Used With Tune: CRIMOND Text Sources: The Scottish Psalter, 1929
The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 219 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 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 Christ is risen, Christ the first-fruits
of the holy harvest field,
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.
3 Christ is risen, we are risen;
shed upon us heavenly grace,
rain, and dew, and gleams of glory
from the brightness of thy face;
that we, with our hearts in heaven,
here on earth may fruitful be,
and by angel-hands be gathered,
and be ever, Lord, with thee.
4 Alleluia! Alleluia!
Glory be to God on high;
Alleluia to the Saviour,
who has gained the victory;
Alleluia to the Spirit,
fount of love and sanctity;
Alleluia! Alleluia!
to the Triune Majesty. Topics: Easter; Easter II Year B; Easter III Year C Used With Tune: LUX EOI
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Lord, Your Word Shall Guide Us
Author: Henry Williams Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 6.6.6.6 Appears in 204 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Topics: Scripture; Trust Used With Tune: RAVENSHAW Text Sources: Rev. Hymns for Today's Church
Lord, Your Word Shall Guide Us
Come, Labor On
Author: Jane L. Borthwick Meter: 4.10.10.10.4 Appears in 71 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-26 Lyrics: 1 Come, labor on.
Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain
while all around us waves the golden grain?
And to each servant does the Master say,
"Go work today."
2 Come, labor on.
The enemy is watching night and day,
to sow the tares, to snatch the seed away;
while we in sleep our duty have forgot,
he slumbers not.
3 Come, labor on.
Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear!
No arm so weak but may do service here:
by feeblest agents may our God fulfill
his righteous will.
4 Come, labor on.
Claim the high calling angels cannot share:
to young and old the gospel gladness bear.
Redeem the time its hours so swiftly fly
the night draws nigh.
5 Come, labor on.
No time for rest, till glows the western sky,
till the long shadows o'er our pathway lie
and a glad sound comes with the setting sun:
"Servants, well done."
Topics: Industry & Labor; Church and Mission; Church; Industry & Labor; Missions; Rest; Witness Used With Tune: ORA LABORA
Come, Labor On
Sowing the Seed of the Kingdom
Author: Fred A. Fillmore Appears in 58 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:8-30 First Line: Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother Topics: Mission Used With Tune: [Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother]
Sowing the Seed of the Kingdom
O God of Every Nation
Author: William Watkins Reid, Jr., 1923- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Topics: Justice; Remembrance Day; Peace Used With Tune: LLANGLOFFAN
O God of Every Nation
You Are Salt for the Earth
Author: Marty Haugen, 1950- Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 22 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 First Line: You are salt for the earth, O people Refrain First Line: Bring forth the kingdom of mercy Topics: Kingdom; Reign of Christ; Reign of Christ; Christian Life Used With Tune: BRING FORTH THE KINGDOM
You Are Salt for the Earth
Satan the Seed is Sowing
Author: M. A. Baker Appears in 22 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:30 Refrain First Line: And the angels will gather Used With Tune: [Satan the seed is sowing]
Satan the Seed is Sowing
Sois la Semilla (You Are the Seed)
Author: Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon; Skinner Chávez-Melo; Cesáreo Gabaraín Meter: 10.9.10.8 with refrain Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-43 First Line: Sois la semilla que ha de crecer (You are the seed that will grow a new sprout) Topics: Consecration; Discipleship; Witness; Year A Epiphany 5; Year A Trinity Sunday; Year A Proper 11; Year B Proper 21 Used With Tune: ID Y ENSEÑAD
Sois la Semilla (You Are the Seed)
God of the Fertile Fields
Author: Georgia Harkness Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-60 Lyrics: 1 God of the fertile fields,
shaper of earth that yields
our daily bread:
forth from your bounteous hand
come gifts your love has planned,
that all in every land
be clothed and fed.
2 We would be stewards true,
holding in trust from you
all that you give;
help us in love to share,
teach us like you to care
for people everywhere,
that all may live.
3 As grows the hidden seed
to fruit that serves our need,
so your reign grows.
Let all our toil be used,
no gift of yours abused,
no humble task refused
your love bestows.
4 God of the countryside,
dear to the Christ who died
to make us one:
we pledge our lives anew
in faithful love to you.
Guide all we say and do.
Your will be done.
Topics: Care of Creation; Commitment; Dedication and Stewardship; Renewal Used With Tune: ITALIAN HYMN
God of the Fertile Fields
Seed, Scattered and Sown
Author: Dan Feiten Meter: Irregular Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:1-30 First Line: Is not the bread we break Refrain First Line: Seed, scattered and swon Topics: Community in Christ; Eucharist; Lord's Supper; Communion Used With Tune: SEED SCATTERED
Seed, Scattered and Sown
Ah! Think Not the Lord Delayeth
Author: Percy Deamer Meter: 8.8.7 D Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:25 Used With Tune: AUCTOR OMNIUM BONORUM
Ah! Think Not the Lord Delayeth
Our Father, Merciful and Good
Author: Olavus Petri; Augustus Nelson Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Lyrics: 1 Our Father, merciful and good,
Who dost to Thee invite us,
O cleanse us in our Saviour's blood,
And to Thyself unite us!
Send unto us Thy holy Word,
And let it guide us ever;
Then in this world of darkness, Lord,
Shall naught from Thee us sever:
Grant us, O Lord, this favor!
2 We cry to Thee with one accord,
'Tis all that can avail us;
We cannot hear nor keep Thy Word,
If grace divine doth fail us.
Behold our lot, we humbly pray,
For our dear Saviour's merit.
How Satan soweth tares alway,
And send, O Lord, Thy Spirit,
That we may life inherit.
3 O God and man, Christ Jesus blest!
Our sorrow Thou didst carry.
Our wants and cares Thou knowest best,
For Thou with us didst tarry.
O Jesus Christ, our Brother dear,
To us and every nation
Thy Spirit send, let Him draw near
With truth and consolation,
That we may see salvation.
4 Come, Holy Ghost, Thy grace impart,
Tear Satan's snares asunder.
The Word of God keep in our heart,
That we its truth may ponder.
Then, sanctified, for evermore,
In Christ alone confiding,
We'll sing His praise and Him adore,
His precious Word us guiding
To heavenly joys abiding.
Amen. Topics: Church Year Trinity; Sunday after Christmas; Epiphany, Fifth Sunday; Trinity Sunday; Names and Office of Christ Substitute; God the Father; Satan, Conflict with Christ and Christians; Word of God Used With Tune: ES WOLT UNS GOTT GENÄDIG SEIN
Our Father, Merciful and Good
Happy Are They Who Walk
Author: Erik Routley Meter: 10.8.10.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:25 First Line: Happy are they who walk in God's wise ways Topics: God Wrath; Righteousness, Reward of; Wicked, Punishment of Used With Tune: SRI LAMPANG Text Sources: Anonymous
Happy Are They Who Walk
When Seed Falls on Good Soil
Author: Norman P. Olson Meter: 6.6.8.8.6.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:18-30 Topics: The Scriptures; Baptism; Christian Education; Christian nurture; Confirmation; Scriptures Used With Tune: WALHOF
When Seed Falls on Good Soil
Heavenly Sower, Thou Hast Scattered
Author: Anna Hoppe Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 First Line: Heav'nly Sower, Thou hast scattered Lyrics: 1 Heavenly Sower, Thou hast scattered
Precious seed upon Thy field,
That a harvest might be gathered,
Rich and fruitful in its yield.
Gracious Lord, thou hast defended,
Nurtured, watered, guarded, tended
This so precious seed of Thine,
Springing up in soil divine.
2 Lo, Thy field its fruits has yielded,
Where Thy kingdom's seed was sown;
gospel rain from drought has shielded,
Pentecostal winds have blown;
Where Thy Sun of Grace in splendor
Shed its warming rays so tender,
There Thy seed has taken root,
There it blossomed into fruit.
3 Guard Thy gospel field, dear Master,
Tares abound upon the soil.
Save Thy harvest from disaster,
Let no foe Thy seed despoil.
When, upon Thy glad returning,
Tares and chaff are doomed to burning,
Then within Thy garner, Lord,
May the precious wheat be stored.
Amen. Topics: Church Year Epiphany; Epiphany, Fifth Sunday; Sexagesima; Names and Office of Christ Sower; Seed, Word of God; Word of God Seed Used With Tune: TVIFLAN UR MIN SJÄL FÖRSVINNE
Heavenly Sower, Thou Hast Scattered
As Grain on Scattered Hillsides
Author: Ruth Duck Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13 First Line: [As Grain on Scattered Hillsides] Text Sources: Dancing in The Universe (G. I. A. Publications, 1992)
As Grain on Scattered Hillsides
Together They are Growing
Author: A. F. Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 13:30 Refrain First Line: They are ripening, ripening Lyrics: 1. Together they are growing,
The wheat beside the tares;
The sunshine of God's mercy
For harvest each prepares.
Chorus:
They are ripening, ripening,
Ripening for the harvest;
The wheat for the garner,
The tares for the burning,
The reapers soon will come.
2. E'en now the fields are whitened,
And ready do appear
For work of angel reapers,
The harvest must be near. [Chorus]
3. Let us improve each moment,
In love and works abound;
That we may in the harvest
Among the wheat be found. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [Together they are growing]
Together They are Growing
He Bought the Whole Field
Author: Miriam Terese Winter Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 13 First Line: [He Bought the Whole Field] Text Sources: An Anthology of Scripture Songs (Medical Missions Sisters, 1982)
He Bought the Whole Field
How the World Longs for Your Birth
Author: Anna Briggs (1947-) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Topics: Advent; Yearning Used With Tune: NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND
How the World Longs for Your Birth
Christ Will Come Again
Author: Brian Wren Meter: 5.6.6.6.8.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Lyrics: 1 Christ will come again,
God's justice to complete,
to reap the fields of time
and sift the weeds from wheat:
then let us passionately care
for peace and justice here on earth,
and evil's rage restrain with love,
till Christ shall come again.
2 Christ will come again
and life shall be complete.
The waters from the throne
shall wash the nations' feet:
then let us passionately care
for health and wholeness here on earth,
and ease our neighbors pain with love,
till Christ shall come again.
3 Christ will come again,
and joy shall be complete
as flames of lightning love
bedeck the judgment seal:
then let us passionately share
the whole great gospel here on earth,
until all things attain their end,
when Christ shall come again. Topics: Health and Wholeness; Jesus Christ Return of; Justice and Peace; Realm of God; Year A Reign of Christ; Year A Easter 5; Year A Proper 11; Year C Easter 6 Used With Tune: IDA
Christ Will Come Again
Hope of our calling: hope through courage won
Author: Ally Barrett (b. 1975) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 13:1-43 Topics: Sending Out; Church Ministry; Discipleship; Hope; Kingdom of God; Ordination; Other Saints and Festivals Peter and Paul, Apostles; Proper 11 Year A; Sharing and Caring; The Church's Ministry and Mission; Vocation Used With Tune: SONG 22
Hope of our calling: hope through courage won
Elevemos al Señor
Author: Henry Alford (1810-1871); J. R. de Balloch Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30 Topics: La Vida Christian Gratitud; The Christian Life Gratitude Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S, WINDSOR
Elevemos al Señor
