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God Is Here!
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #280 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Person Name: Fred Pratt Green First Line: God is here! As we your people Lyrics: 1 God is here! As we your people
meet to offer praise and prayer,
may we find in fuller measure
what it is in Christ we share.
Here, as in the world around us,
all our varied skills and arts
wait the coming of the Spirit
into open minds and hearts.
2 Here are symbols to remind us
of our lifelong need of grace;
here are table, fount, and pulpit;
here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching,
here in silence, as in speech,
here, in newness and renewal,
God the Spirit comes to each.
3 Here our children find a welcome
in the Shepherd's flock and fold;
here as bread and wine are taken,
Christ sustains us as of old.
Here the servants of the Servant
seek in worship to explore
what it means in daily living
to believe and to adore.
4 Lord of all, of church and kingdom,
in an age of change and doubt,
keep us faithful to the Gospel;
help us work your purpose out.
Here, in this day's dedication,
all we have to give, receive;
we, who cannot live without you,
we adore you! We believe! Topics: God's Church The Church at Worship: Gathering; Gathering; God: Presence; Lord's Supper; Worship Languages: English Tune Title: ABBOT'S LEIGH
God Is Here!
An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #385 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 An upper room did our Lord prepare
for those he loved until the end:
and his disciples still gather there.
to celebrate their risen friend.
2 A lasting gift Jesus gave his own:
to share his bread, his loving cup.
Whatever burdens may bow us down,
he by his Cross shall lift us up.
3 And after supper he washed their feet,
for service, too, is sacrament.
In him our joy shall be made complete:
sent out to serve, as he was sent.
4 No end there is! We depart in peace,
he loves beyond our uttermost:
in every room in our Father's house
Christ will be there as Lord and Host.
Topics: The Church at Worship The Lord's Supper; God's Church The Church at Worship: The Lord's Supper; Christian Year: Holy Week; Lord's Supper Scripture: Mark 14:12-16 Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY
An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare
Loving Lord, as Now We Gather
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #427 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 Loving Lord, as now we gather,
of that love unworthy still,
give us courage to surrender
rebel heart and stubborn will,
and in us, in faith maturing,
all your promises fulfill.
2 Holy Lord, as here you give us
bread and wine, as means of grace,
grant to every true believer
now to meet you face to face,
and to own, in silent wonder,
Lord, how holy is this place. Topics: The Church at Worship The Lord's Supper; God's Church The Church at Worship: The Lord's Supper; Courage; Jesus Christ: Love; Lord's Supper Languages: English Tune Title: RHUDDLAN
Loving Lord, as Now We Gather
When the Church of Jesus
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #470 (1995) Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 When the church of Jesus shuts its outer door,
lest the roar of traffic drown the voice of prayer:
may our prayers, Lord, make us ten times more aware
that the world we banish is our Christian care.
2 If our hearts are lifted where devotion soars
high above this hungry, suffering world of ours:
lest our hymns should drug us to forget its needs,
forge our Christian worship into Christian deeds.
3 Lest the gifts we offer, money, talents, time,
serve to salve our conscience, to our secret shame:
Lord, reprove, inspire us by the way you give;
teach us, dying Savior, how true Christians live. Topics: God's Church Mission and Witness; Church; Justice; Mission; Stewardship; Worship Languages: English Tune Title: KING'S WESTON
When the Church of Jesus
Now It Is Evening
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #471 (1995) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 Now it is evening:
lights of the city
bid us remember
Christ is our light.
Many are lonely,
who will be neighbor?
Where there is caring,
Christ is our Light.
2 Now it is evening:
little ones sleeping
bid us remember
Christ is our peace.
Some are neglected,
who will be neighbor?
Where there is caring,
Christ is our peace.
3 Now it is evening:
food on the table
bids us remember
Christ is our life.
Many are hungry,
who will be neighbor?
Where there is sharing,
Christ is our life.
4 Now it is evening:
here in our meeting
may we remember
Christ is our friend.
Some may be strangers,
who will be neighbor?
Where there's a welcome,
Christ is our friend. Topics: God's Church Mission and Witness; Cities; Compassion; Evening; Mission Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING HYMN
Now It Is Evening
The Church of Christ in Every Age
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #475 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 The church of Christ, in every age,
beset by change but Spirit-led,
must claim and test its heritage
and keep on rising from the dead.
2 Across the world, across the street,
the victims of injustice cry
for shelter and for bread to eat,
and never live until they die.
3 Then let the servant church arise,
a caring church that longs to be
a partner in Christ's sacrifice,
and clothed in Christ's humanity.
4 For Christ alone, whose blood was shed,
can cure the fever in our blood,
and teach us how to share our bread
and feed the starving multitude.
5 We have no mission but to serve
in full obedience to our Lord:
to care for all, without reserve,
and spread Christ's liberating word. Topics: God's Church Mission and Witness; Church; Justice; Mission; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: WAREHAM
The Church of Christ in Every Age
Rejoice in God's Saints
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #476 (1995) Meter: 10.10.11.11 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green First Line: Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days Lyrics: 1 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days;
a world without saints forgets how to praise.
Their faith in acquiring the habit of prayer,
their depth of adoring, Lord, help us to share.
2 Some march with events to turn them God's way;
some need to withdraw, the better to pray.
Some carry the gospel through fire and through flood:
our world is their parish: their purpose is God.
3 Rejoice in those saints, unpraised and unknown,
who bear someone's cross, or shoulder their own.
They shame our complaining, our comforts, our cares:
what patience in caring, what courage, is theirs!
4 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days;
a world without saints forgets how to praise.
In loving, in living, they prove it is true:
the way of self-giving, Lord, leads us to you. Topics: God's Church Mission and Witness; Discipleship; Mission; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: HANOVER
Rejoice in God's Saints
O Christ, the Healer
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #503 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green First Line: O Christ, the healer, we have come Lyrics: 1 O Christ, the healer, we have come
to pray for health, to plead for friends.
How can we fail to be restored
when reached by love that never ends?
2 From every ailment flesh endures
our bodies clamor to be freed:
yet in our hearts we would confess
that wholeness is our deepest need.
3 How strong, O Christ, are our desires,
how weak our knowledge of ourselves!
Release in us those healing truths
unconscious pride resists or shelves.
4 In conflicts that destroy our health
we recognize the world's disease:
our common life declares our ills.
Is there no cure, O Christ, for these?
5 Grant that we all, made one in faith,
in your community may find
the wholeness that, enriching us,
shall reach the whole of humankind. Topics: God's Church Healing and Wholeness; God's Church Healing and Wholeness; Healing Languages: English Tune Title: ROCKINGHAM
O Christ, the Healer
When Our Confidence Is Shaken
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #534 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 When our confidence is shaken
in beliefs we thought secure,
when the spirit in its sickness
seeks but cannot find a cure,
God is active in the tensions
of a faith not yet mature.
2 Solar systems, void of meaning,
freeze the spirit into stone;
always our researches lead us
to the ultimate unknown.
Faith must die, or come full circle
to its source in God alone.
3 In the discipline of praying,
when it's hardest to believe;
in the drudgery of caring,
when it's not enough to grieve;
faith, maturing, learns acceptance
of the insights we receive.
4 God is love, and thus redeems us
in the Christ we crucify;
this is God's eternal answer
to the world's eternal why.
May we in this faith maturing
be content to live and die! Topics: Life of Discipleship Faith and Hope; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Faith and Hope; Faith; Hope Languages: English Tune Title: LAUDA ANIMA
When Our Confidence Is Shaken
How Blest Are They Who Trust in Christ
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #646 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 How blest are they who trust in Christ
when we and those we love must part;
we yield them up, for go they must,
but do not lose them from our heart.
2 In ripened age, their harvest reaped,
or gone from us in youth or prime,
in Christ they have eternal life,
released from all the bonds of time.
3 In Christ, who tasted death for us,
we rise above our natural grief,
and witness to a stricken world
the strength and splendor of belief. Topics: Life of Discipleship Death and Eternal Life; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Death and Eternal Life; Death; Eternal Life; Faith; Funerals and Memorial Services; Grief; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: MARYTON
How Blest Are They Who Trust in Christ
For the Fruit of All Creation
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #714 (1995) Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 For the fruit of all creation,
thanks be to God;
for the gifts to every nation,
thanks be to God;
for the plowing, sowing, reaping,
silent growth while we are sleeping,
future needs in earth's safekeeping,
thanks be to God.
2 In the just reward of labor,
God's will is done;
in the help we give our neighbor,
God's will is done;
in our worldwide task of caring
for the hungry and despairing,
in the harvests we are sharing,
God's will is done.
3 For the harvests of the Spirit,
thanks be to God;
for the good we all inherit,
thanks be to God;
for the wonders that astound us,
for the truths that still confound us,
most of all that love has found us,
thanks be to God. Topics: Times and Seasons Thanksgiving; God's World Times and Seasons: Thanksgiving; Discipleship; God: Faithfulness; Gratitude; Harvest; Hunger; Thanksgiving Day Languages: English Tune Title: AR HYD Y NOS
For the Fruit of All Creation
Come, Sing a Song of Harvest
Author: Fred Pratt Green Hymnal: CH1995 #719 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green Lyrics: 1 Come, sing a song of harvest,
of thanks for daily food!
To offer God the first-fruits
is old as gratitude.
2 Shall we, sometimes forgetful
of where creation starts,
view science as our savior,
lose wonder from our hearts?
3 May God, the great Creator,
to whom all life belongs,
accept these gifts we offer,
our service and our songs.
4 And lest the world go hungry
while we ourselves are fed,
make each of us more ready
to share our daily bread. Topics: Times and Seasons Thanksgiving; God's World Times and Seasons: Thanksgiving; Gratitude; Offering; Harvest; Thanksgiving Day Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Come, Sing a Song of Harvest
Built on the Rock
Author: Nikolai F. S. Grundtvig; Carl Doving Hymnal: CH1995 #273 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8 Person Name: Nikolai F. S. Grundtvig First Line: Built on the rock the church does stand Lyrics: 1 Built on the rock the church shall stand
even when steeples are falling;
Christ builds he church in every land;
bells still are chiming and calling,
calling the young and old to rest,
calling the souls of those distressed,
longing for life everlasting.
2 Not just in temples made with hands
God, the Most Holy, is dwelling.
Hidden from sight God's temple stands,
all earthly temples excelling.
The one whom heavens cannot contain
chose here among us to remain,
built in our bodies a temple.
3 We are a house of living stones
built for God's own habitation;
God fills our hearts, these humble thrones,
granting us life and salvation.
Were two or three to pray for grace,
Christ in their midst would show his face,
blessings upon them bestowing. Topics: God's Church Foundation; God's Church The Foundation; Church; God: Presence Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-10 Languages: English Tune Title: KIRKEN DEN ER ET
Built on the Rock
The Lord's Prayer
Hymnal: CH1995 #310 (1995) Meter: Irregular Person Name: David Haas First Line: Our Father in heaven Lyrics: Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your Name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial,
and deliver us from evil
For the kingdom, the pow'r and the glory are yours,
now and for ever. Topics: The Church at Worship Communal Prayer; God's Church The Church at Worship: Communal Prayer; Forgiveness; God: Reign; Lord's Prayer; Prayer Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Languages: English Tune Title: HAAS
The Lord's Prayer
I Love to Tell the Story
Author: Katherine Hankey Hymnal: CH1995 #480 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Person Name: Katherine Hankey Lyrics: 1 I love to tell the story
of unseen things above,
of Jesus and his glory,
of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story
because I know 'tis true;
it satisfies my longings
as nothing else can do.
[Refrain:]
I love to tell the story,
'twill be my theme in glory,
to tell the old, old story
of Jesus and his love.
2 I love to tell the story
'tis pleasant to repeat
what seems, each time I tell it,
more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story,
for some have never heard
the message of salvation
from God's own holy word. [Refrain]
3 I love to tell the story,
for those who know it best
seem hungering and thirsting
to hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'twill be the old, old story
that I have loved so long. [Refrain] Topics: God's Church Mission and Witness; Jesus Christ: Love; Mission; Proclamation; Witness Languages: English Tune Title: HANKEY
I Love to Tell the Story
Hope of the World
Author: Georgia Harkness Hymnal: CH1995 #538 (1995) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Person Name: Georgia Harkness First Line: Hope of the world, O Christ of great compasssion Lyrics: 1 Hope of the world, O Christ of great compassion:
speak to our fearful hearts by conflict rent;
save us, your people, from consuming passion,
who by our own false hopes and aims are spent.
2 Hope of the world, God's gift from highest heaven,
bringing to hungry souls the bread of life:
still let your Spirit unto us be given
to heal earth's wounds and end our bitter strife.
3 Hope of the world, afoot on dusty highways,
showing to wandering souls the path of light:
walk now beside us lest the tempting byways
lure us away from you to endless night.
4 Hope of the world, who by your cross did save us
from death and dark despair, from sin and guilt:
we render back the love your mercy gave us;
take now our lives and use them as you will.
5 Hope of the world, O Christ, o'er death victorious,
who by this sign did conquer grief and pain:
we would be faithful to your gospel glorious;
you are our Lord, and you forever reign! Topics: Life of Discipleship Faith and Hope; God's Church Life of Discipleship: Faith and Hope; Discipleship; Empowerment; Faith; Peace on Earth; Hope; Hunger Languages: English Tune Title: VICAR
Hope of the World
God of the Fertile Fields
Author: Georgia Harkness Hymnal: CH1995 #695 (1995) Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Person Name: Georgia Harkness 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 ev'ry 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,
your reign yet grows.
So let our toil be used,
no gift of yours abused,
no humble task refused your love bestows.
4 God of the countryside,
dear to our Lord who died
to make us one;
we pledge our lives anew,
in faithful love to you;
guide all we say and do, till life is done.
Topics: God's World Care of the Earth; Care of the Earth; God: Reign; Rural Life; Harvest; Stewardship Languages: English Tune Title: ITALIAN HYMN
God of the Fertile Fields
This Is My Song
Author: Georgia Harkness; Lloyd Stone Hymnal: CH1995 #722 (1995) Meter: 11.10.11.10.11.10 Person Name: Georgia Harkness First Line: This is my song, O God of all the nations Topics: Times and Seasons National Songs; God's World Times and Seasons: National Songs; God: Reign; Peace on Earth Languages: English Tune Title: FINLANDIA
This Is My Song
O Young and Fearless Prophet
Author: S. Ralph Harlow Hymnal: CH1995 #669 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Person Name: S. Ralph Harlow Lyrics: 1 O young and fearless Prophet
of ancient Galilee,
your life is still a summons
to serve humanity;
to make our thoughts and actions
less prone to please the crowd,
to stand with humble courage
for truth with hearts uncowed.
2 We marvel at the purpose
that held you to your course
while ever on the hilltop
before you loomed the cross;
your steadfast face set forward
where love and duty shone,
while we betray so quickly
and leave you there alone.
3 O help us stand unswerving
against war's bloody way,
where hate and lust and falsehood
hold back Christ's holy sway;
forbid false love of country
that keeps us from your call,
you lift above the nations
the unity of all.
4 Stir up in us a protest
against our greed for wealth,
while others starve and hunger
and plead for work and health;
where homes with little children
cry out for lack of bread,
who live their years sore burdened
beneath a gloomy dread.
5 O young and fearless Prophet,
we need your presence here,
amid our pride and glory
to see your face appear;
once more to hear your challenge
above our noisy day,
again to lead us forward
along God's holy way. Topics: God's World Justice and Righteousness; Discipleship; God: Righteousness; Jesus Christ: Presence; Justice; Righteousness; Hunger Languages: English Tune Title: LLANGLOFFAN
O Young and Fearless Prophet
In This Very Room
Author: Ron Harris; Carol Harris Hymnal: CH1995 #295 (1995) Meter: Irregular Person Name: Ron Harris Topics: God's Church The Church at Worship: Gathering; Gathering; Jesus Christ: Love; Jesus Christ: Presence; Lord's Supper Languages: English Tune Title: IN THIS VERY ROOM
In This Very Room
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