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How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,616 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear! It soothes our sorrows, heals our wounds, and drives away our fear. 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole and calms the troubled breast; 'tis manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary, rest. 3 O Jesus, shepherd, guardian, friend, my Prophet, Priest, and King, my Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring. 4 How weak the effort of my heart, how cold my warmest thought; but when I see you as you are, I'll praise you as I ought. 5 Till then I would your love proclaim with every fleeting breath; and may the music of your name refresh my soul in death. Topics: Comfort & Encouragement; King, God/Christ as; Redemption; Comfort & Encouragement; King, God/Christ as; Redemption Used With Tune: ST. PETER

My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less

Author: Edward Mote Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 1,083 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:11-12 Refrain First Line: On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand Lyrics: 1 My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name. Refrain: On Christ, the solid Rock I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand. 2 When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil. (Refrain) 3 His oath, His covenant, His blood Support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. (Refrain) 4 When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I then in Him be found, Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. (Refrain) Used With Tune: SOLID ROCK

To the Name of Our Salvation

Author: John M. Neale; Unknown Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 118 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 To the name of our salvation Laud and honor let us pay, Which for many a generation Hid in God's foreknowledge lay; But with holy exultation We may sing aloud today. 2 Jesus is the name we treasure, Name beyond what words can tell; Name of gladness, name of pleasure, Ear and heart delighting well; Name of sweetness, passing measure, Saving us from sin and hell. 3 'Tis the name for adoration; 'Tis the name of victory; 'Tis the name for meditation In this vale of misery; 'Tis the name for veneration By the citizens on high. 4 'Tis the name that whoso preacheth Speaks like music to the ear; Who in prayer this name beseecheth Sweetest comfort findeth near: Who its perfect wisdom reacheth Heavenly joy possesseth here. 5 Jesus is the name prevailing Over every name by right; At this name, in terror wailing, Powers of hell are put to flight; God, in mercy never failing, Saves us by this name of might. 6 Therefore we in love adoring This most blessed name revere, Holy Jesus, Thee imploring So to write it in us here That hereafter, heavenward soaring, We may sing with angels there. Amen. Topics: The Church Year New Year Used With Tune: SIEH, HIER BIN ICH

Solamente en Cristo

Author: Descon. Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:8-12 Lyrics: 1 Solamente en Cristo, solamente en él, La salvación se encuentra en él. No hay otro nombre dado a los hombres; solamente en Cristo, solamente en él. 2 En San Juan catorce y el verso seis, Dice Jesús, "Soy la verdad, Soy el camino, también la vida; Nadie viene al Padre sino por mí". Topics: Confesión de Cristo; Confesión de Cristo; Testimony; Testimony; Testimonio del Cristiano; Christian's Testimony Used With Tune: SOLAMENTE EN CRISTO Text Sources: Basada en Juan 14:6 y Hechos 4:12

Rock of Ages, cleft for me

Author: Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 2,895 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 Rock of ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood, from thy riven side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, cleanse me from its guilt and power. 2 Not the labours of my hands can fulfill thy law's demands; could my zeal no respite know, could my tears for ever flow, all for sin could not atone; thou must save, and thou alone. 3 Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling; naked, come to thee for dress; helpless, look to thee for grace; stained by sin, to thee I fly; wash me, Saviour, or I die. 4 While I draw this fleeting breath, when my eyelids close in death, when I soar through realms unknown, see thee on thy judgement throne, Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Devotion; Death and Bereavement; God in grace and mercy; God names and imags of Used With Tune: PETRA (REDHEAD No. 76)

O, How I Love Jesus

Author: Frederick Whitefield; Anonymous Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 563 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 First Line: There is a name I love to hear Lyrics: 1 There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; it sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest name on earth. Refrain: O, how I love Jesus, O, how I love Jesus, O, how I love Jesus, because he first loved me! 2 It tells me of a Savior's love, who died to set me free; it tells me of his precious blood, the sinner's perfect plea. [Refrain] 3 It tells me what my Father hath in store for every day, and, though I tread a darksome path, yields sunshine all the way. [Refrain] 4 It tells of One whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe, who in each sorrow bears a part, that none can bear below. [Refrain] Topics: Blood of Christ; Jesus Christ Names; Love Our Love of Christ; Saving Work of Christ; Witness Used With Tune: O, HOW I LOVE JESUS

At the Name of Jesus

Author: Caroline Maria Noel Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 252 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess him King of glory now; 'tis the Father's pleasure we should call him Lord, who from the beginning was the mighty Word. 2 Humbled for a season to receive a name from the lips of sinners unto whom he came, faithfully he bore it spotless to the last, brought it back victorious, when from death he passed; 3 Bore it up triumphant, with its human light, through all ranks of creatures, to the central height, to the throne of Godhead, to the Father's breast, filled it with the glory of that perfect rest. 4 Christians, this Lord Jesus shall return again, with his Father's glory o'er the earth to reign; for all wreaths of empire meet upon his brow, and our hearts confess him King of glory now. Topics: Adoration; Atonement; Christ's Return; Jesus Christ Ascension and Reign Used With Tune: KING’S WESTON

Proclaiming the universal Saviour

Appears in 183 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 First Line: Let earth and heaven agree Topics: Provisions and Promises of the Gospel Used With Tune: LISCHER

Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love

Author: William W. How, 1823-97 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 166 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 Jesus! Name of wondrous love, Name all other names above, Unto which must ev'ry knee Bow in deep humility. 2 Jesus! Name decreed of old, To the maiden mother told, Kneeling in her lowly cell, By the angel Gabriel. 3 Jesus! Name of priceless worth To the fallen sons of earth For the promise that it gave, "Jesus shall His people save." 4 Jesus! Name of mercy mild, Given to the holy Child When the cup of human woe First He tasted here below. 5 Jesus! Only name that's giv'n Under all the mighty heav'n Whereby those to sin enslaved Burst their fetters and are saved. 6 Jesus! Name of wondrous love, Human name of God above; Pleading only this, we flee Helpless, 0 our God, to Thee. Topics: Redeemer Used With Tune: GOTT SEI DANK

Thou hidden source of calm repose

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 166 hymnals Scripture: Acts 4:12 Lyrics: 1 Thou hidden source of calm repose, thou all-sufficient love divine, my help and refuge from my foes, secure I am, if thou art mine: and lo, from sin, and grief, and shame, I hide me, Jesus, in thy name. 2 Thy mighty name salvation is, and keeps my happy soul above; comfort it brings, and power, and peace, and joy, and everlasting love: to me, with thy dear name, are given pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 3 Jesus, my all in all thou art: my rest in toil, my ease in pain, the medicine of my broken heart, in war my peace, in loss my gain, my smile beneath the tyrant's frown, in shame my glory and my crown; 4 In want my plentiful supply, in weakness my almighty power, in bonds my perfect liberty, my light in Satan's darkest hour, in grief my joy unspeakable, my life in death, my heaven in hell. Used With Tune: MELITA