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O bride of Christ, rejoice

Author: Victor O. Petersen Meter: 6.6.7.7.7.7 Appears in 21 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O bride of Christ, rejoice; exultant raise your voice to greet the day of glory foretold in sacred story: Refrain Hosanna, we adore you! Our King, we bow before you. 2 Let shouts of gladness rise triumphant to the skies; here comes the King most glorious, and he will reign victorious [Refrain] 3 He wears no kingly crown, yet as a king is known; though not adorned in splendour, he still makes death surrender: [Refrain] 4 The weak and timid find him gentle, good, and kind; to them he gives a treasure of bliss beyond all measure: [Refrain] 5 Your heart now open wide, let Christ with you abide; he graciously will hear you, and be for ever near you: [Refrain] 6 Then go your Lord to meet, spread palm-leaves at his feet; your garments lay before him and honour and adore him: [Refrain] 7 And little children too will praise the Lord with you, and every land and nation respond with exaltation: [Refrain] Topics: Advent; Christian Community; Consummation in Christ; Forgiveness; Freedom; God's Love to Us; Healing; Hymns Specially Suitable for Children; Jesus Christ Friend and Companion; Jesus Christ Kingship; Jesus Christ Passion and Cross; Joy; Palm Sunday; Sanctification Scripture: Ephesians 5:25-33 Used With Tune: AUF MEINEN LIEBEN GOTT Text Sources: Anon., Danish c. 1600

Praise waits for you in Zion, Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 33 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Praise waits for you in Zion, Lord: vows shall be paid to you. O Lord, the One who hears our prayer, all flesh shall come to you. 2 The sins I must confess prevail strong over me each day; but as for our transgressions, Lord, you purge them all away. 3 Blessèd are they whom you will choose and make approach to you, that they within your courts may come and always dwell secure. 4 We surely shall be satisfied with your abundant grace, and with the goodness of your house, Lord, of your holy place. 5 O God of our salvation sure, you, in your righteousness, by awesome deeds to all our prayers your answer, Lord, express. 6 Therefore the ends of all the earth and those who dwell abroad across the sea, their confidence will place in you, O Lord. Topics: Assurance; Grace; Longing for God; Repentance; Sin; Worship Earthly and Heavenly; Worship Gathering Scripture: Psalm 65 Used With Tune: ABRIDGE Text Sources: Scottish Psalter 1650, alt.

O the deep, deep love of Jesus

Author: Samuel Trevor Francis, 1834-1925 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: Comfort; Consummation in Christ; Funerals; God's Love to Us; Heaven; Jesus Christ Priesthood and Intercession; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Personal Response to Jesus; Saints Days and Holy Days St James; Saints Days and Holy Days St John the Evangelist; Saints Days and Holy Days St Peter Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-10 Used With Tune: EBENEZER Text Sources: Alt.: Hymns for Today's Church

Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Son

Author: Richard Birch Hoyle, 1875-1939; Edmond Louis Budry, 1854-1932 Meter: 10.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 110 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory over death you've won; angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave-clothes, where your body lay. Refrain: Yours be the glory, risen, conquering Son, endless is the victory over death you've won. 2 See, Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb; lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom; let the church with gladness hymns of triumph sing, for the Lord is living, death has lost its sting. [Refrain] 3 No more we doubt you, glorious Prince of life; life is naught without you: aid us in our strife; make us more than conquerors through your deathless love; bring us safe through Jordan to your home above. [Refrain] Topics: Celebration of Faith; Consummation in Christ; Doubt; Eternal Life; Fear; Festal Joy; Funerals; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Proclamation: Witness; Resurrection; Saints Days and Holy Days St Mary Magdalene; Saints Days and Holy Days St Thomas Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:55-58 Used With Tune: MACCABAEUS

Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 60 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord! Unnumbered blessings, give my spirit voice; tender to me the promise of his word; in God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice. 2 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name! Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done; his mercy sure, from age to age the same; his holy name - the Lord, the Mighty One. 3 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might! Powers and dominions lay their glory by. Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight, the hungry fed, the humble lifted high. 4 Tell out, my soul, the glories of his word! Firm is his promise, and his mercy sure. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord to children's children and for evermore! Topics: Adoration and Praise; Mercy of God; Ministry of Women; Mission/Sending; Proclamation: Witness; Providence; Response to Word; Saints Days and Holy Days Anunciation of the Blessed Virgin; Saints Days and Holy Days Any Saint; Saints Days and Holy Days Evangelists; Saints Days and Holy Days Mary, the Mother of th Lord; Saints Days and Holy Days St Matthias Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-10 Used With Tune: WOODLANDS Text Sources: Magnificat

O come, all ye faithful

Author: John Francis Wade, c. 1711-1786; Frederick Oakeley, 1802-80; William Thomas Brooke, 1848-1917 Meter: Irregular Appears in 732 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; come and behold him born the king of angels: Refrain: O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord! 2 True God of true God, Light of Light eternal, lo! he abhors not the Virgin's womb; Son of the Father, begotten, not created: [Refrain] 3 See how the shepherds summoned to his cradle, leaving their flocks, draw nigh with holy fear; we too will thither bend our joyful footsteps: [Refrain] 4 Lo! star-led chieftains, wise men, Christ adoring, offer him incense, gold and myrrh; we to the Christchild bring our hearts' oblations: [Refrain] 5 Child, for us sinners poor and in the manger, fain we embrace thee with love and awe; who would not love thee, loving us so dearly? [Refrain] 6 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, sing all ye citizens of heaven above, 'Glory to God, glory in the highest': [Refrain] 7 Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning, Jesus, to thee be glory given; Word of the Father now in flesh appearing: [Refrain] Topics: Christmas; Epiphany; Jesus Christ Incarnation Scripture: John 1:1-9 Used With Tune: ADESTE FIEDLES

All people that on earth do dwell

Author: William Kethe, d. 1594 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 723 hymnals Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell; come ye before him and rejoice. 2 Know that the Lord is God indeed; without our aid he did us make: we are his folk, he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. 3 O enter then his gates with praise, approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do. 4 For why the Lord our God is good; his mercy is for ever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Covenant; Eternity of God; Joy; Providence; Worship Gathering Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD 100TH

In Christ there is no east or west

Author: William Arthur Dunkerley ('John Oxenham'), 1852-1941 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 331 hymnals Lyrics: 1 In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth. 2 In Christ shall true hearts everywhere their high communion find, his service is the golden cord close-binding humankind. 3 Join hands, then, peoples of the faith, whate'er your race may be; who serves my Father as his child is surely kin to me. 4 In Christ now meet both east and west, in him meet south and north, all Christlike souls are one in him throughout the whole wide earth. Topics: Epiphany; International Affairs; Mission/Sending; People of God; Reconciliation; Service; Social Justice; Unity of Humanity; Unity of the Church Scripture: Colossians 3:9-11 Used With Tune: MCKEE

God is love, let heav'n adore him

Author: Timothy Rees, 1874-1939 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 33 hymnals Lyrics: 1 God is love, let heav'n adore him; God is love, let earth rejoice; let creation sing before him, and exalt him with one voice. God, who laid the earth's foundation, he who spread the heavens above, and who breathes through all creation God is love, eternal Love. 2 God is love, and gently enfolding all the world in one embrace, with unfailing grasp is holding every child of every race. And when human hearts are breaking under sorrow's iron rod, then they find that selfsame aching deep within the heart of God. 3 God is love, and, though with blindness sin afflicts our human hearts, God's eternal lovingkindness holding, guiding, grace imparts. Sin and death and hell shall never o'er us final triumph gain; God is love, so love for ever o'er the universe must reign. Topics: Comfort; Compassion; Consummation in Christ; Creation; Funerals; Grace; Providence; Saints Days and Holy Days St John the Evangelist; Suffering; Unity of Humanity; Worship Gathering Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Used With Tune: ABBOT'S LEIGH

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1811-75 Appears in 145 hymnals 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. Topics: Comfort; Confidence; Epiphany; Fear; Glory of God; Hope; Humility; Obedience; Our Gifts to God; Our Love to God; People of God; Purity; Sincerity; Worship Gathering; Worship The Offering Scripture: 1 Chronicles 16:29-33 Used With Tune: WAS LEBET