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O Son of Man, Our Hero Strong and Tender

Author: Frank Fletcher Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 45 hymnals Scripture: John 15:11-15 Topics: Christ Leader; Christ Presence; Christ Son of Man; Commitment; Jesus Christ His Presence Used With Tune: CHARTERHOUSE

Where Charity and Love Prevail

Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916- Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 41 hymnals Scripture: John 15:1-17 Topics: Forgiveness; Holy Week (Maundy Thursday); Love; Unity (church); Christian Life Used With Tune: TWENTY-FOURTH (PRIMROSE) Text Sources: Latin (9th cent.)

Oh, see how Jesus trusts himself

Author: Anon. Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: John 15:15 Lyrics: 1 Oh, see how Jesus trusts himself Unto our childish love, As though by his free ways with us Our earnestness to prove. 2 His sacred name a common word On earth he loves to hear; There is no majesty in him Which love may not come near. 3 The light of love is round his feet, His paths are never dim; And he comes nigh to us when we Dare not come nigh to him. 4 Let us be simple with him, then, Not backward, stiff, nor cold, As though our Bethlehem could be What Sinai was of old. Topics: General Praise; Condescension

The Tree of Life My Soul Hath Seen

Author: Joshua Smith, 18th cent. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: John 15:1-17 Topics: Salvation/Redemption; Christian Life Used With Tune: PINKHAM Text Sources: Divine Hymns of Spiritual Songs, New Hampshire, 1784

Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ

Author: Fred Kaan, b. 1929 Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 34 hymnals Scripture: John 15 Refrain First Line: Jesus lives again Lyrics: 1 Let us talents and tongues employ, reaching out with a shout of joy. Bread is broken, the wine is poured, Christ is spoken and seen and heard. Refrain: Jesus lives again, earth can breathe again, pass the Word around: loaves abound! 2 Christ is able to make us one. At the table he sets the tone, teaching people to live to bless, love in word and in deed express. 3 Jesus calls us in, sends us out bearing fruit in a world of doubt, gives us love to tell, bread to share. God (Immanuel) everywhere! Topics: Lord's Supper Used With Tune: LINSTEAD

The One Is Blest

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals Scripture: John 15:1-17 First Line: The one is blest who, fearing God Lyrics: 1 The one is blest who, fearing God, walks not where sinners meet, who does not stand with wicked ones, and shuns the scorner's seat. 2 How blest the one who in God's law finds goodness and delight, and meditates upon that law with gladness day and night. 3 That one is nourished like a tree set by the river's side; its leaf is green, its fruit is sure: the works of such abide. 4 The wicked, like the driven chaff, are swept from off the land; they shall not gather with the just, nor at the judgment stand. 5 The LORD will guard the righteous well, their way to God is known; the way of sinners, far from God, shall surely be o'erthrown. Topics: God's Wisdom; Law of God Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt. 1985

Jesus, Joy of Our Desiring

Author: Martin Janus, 1620?-1832?; Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844-1930 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 24 hymnals Scripture: John 15:1-17 Topics: Jesus Christ the Word; Wisdom; Yearning; Trust Used With Tune: WERDE MUNTER

Let Christian faith and hope dispel

Author: Anonymous; John Logan, 1748-1788 Appears in 24 hymnals Scripture: John 15:15 Lyrics: 1 Let Christian faith and hope dispel the fears of guilt and woe; the Lord Almighty is our friend, and who can prove a foe? 2 The Saviour died, but rose again triumphant from the grave, and pleads our cause at God’s right hand, omnipotent to save. 3 Who then can e’er divide us more from Jesus' saving love, or break the sacred chain that binds the earth to heaven above? 4 Let troubles rise and terrors frown, and days of darkness fall; through Christ all dangers we’ll defy, and more than conquer all. 5 Nor death nor life, nor earth, nor hell, nor time’s destroying sway can e’er erase us from his heart, or make his love decay. 6 Each future period that will bless as it has blessed the past; Christ loved us from the first of time; Christ loves us to the last. Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases; Communion; Easter / Eastertide; Faith; Fear; God in Christ; Hope; Love Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrase

Jesus the Lord Said, "I Am the Bread"

Author: C. Dermott Monahan, 1906-1957 ; Bert Polman, b. 1945; Anonymous Appears in 17 hymnals Scripture: John 15 Topics: Epiphany Used With Tune: YISU NE KAHA Text Sources: "I Am" passages in the Gospel of John; Urdu

Take and Eat

Author: James Quinn, SJ Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: John 15:1-17 First Line: I am the Word that spoke and light was made Refrain First Line: Take and eath; take and eat Topics: Communion Processional Hymns Used With Tune: [Take and eat; take and eat]