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On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Author: Charles Coffin Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 230 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:3-4 Lyrics: 1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
announces that the Lord is nigh.
Awake and harken, for he brings
glad tidings of the King of kings!
2 Then cleansed be every life from sin:
make straight the way for God within,
and let us all our hearts prepare
for Christ to come and enter there.
3 We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
our refuge and our great reward.
Without your grace we waste away
like flowers that wither and decay.
4 Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,
and make us rise to fall no more.
O let your face upon us shine
and fill the world with love divine.
5 All praise to you, eternal Son,
whose advent has our freedom won,
whom with the Father we adore,
and Holy Spirit, evermore.
Topics: Biblical Names & Places John the Baptist; Biblical Names & Places Jordan; Advent; Advent; Biblical Names & Places John the Baptist; Biblical Names & Places Jordan; Trinity; Victory Used With Tune: PUER NOBIS
On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Author: Taize Community Appears in 22 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:4-6 Topics: Seasons and Feasts Advent; Second Coming Used With Tune: [Prepare the Way of the Lord]
Prepare the Way of the Lord
Comfort, Comfort Now My People
Author: Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878; Johannes G. Olearius, 1611-1684 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8 Appears in 126 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:4 First Line: "Comfort, comfort now my people Lyrics: 1 "Comfort, comfort now my people;
tell of peace!" so says our God.
Comfort those who sit in darkness
mourning under sorrow's load.
To God's people now proclaim
that God's pardon waits for them!
Tell them that their war is over;
God will reign in peace forever!
2 For the herald's voice is crying
in the desert far and near,
calling us to true repentance
since the Kingdom now is here.
Oh, that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way!
Let the valleys rise to meet him,
and the hills bow down to greet him!
3 Straight shall be what long was crooked,
and the rougher places plain!
Let your hearts be true and humble,
as befits his holy reign!
For the glory of the Lord
now on earth is shed abroad,
and all flesh shall see the token
that God's word is never broken. Topics: Promise & Hope Used With Tune: GENEVAN 42
Comfort, Comfort Now My People
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
Author: Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471); Benjamin Webb; J. M. Neale Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 139 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:1 Lyrics: 1 O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
how passing thought and fantasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!
2 For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore;
for us temptation sharp he knew,
for us the tempter overthrew.
3 For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought:
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.
4 For us to evil pow'r betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us gave up his dying breath.
5 For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here
to guide, to comfort, and to cheer.
6 All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad --
the Trinity, whom we adore
forever and forevermore.
Topics: Doxologies (Other, last verses of); Jesus Christ Life and Ministry Used With Tune: DEO GRACIAS (AGINCOURT SONG) Text Sources: O amor quam ecstaticus
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
When John Baptized by Jordan's River
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1926- Meter: 9.8.9.8 D Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:2-17 Lyrics: 1 When John baptized by Jordan's river
in faith and hope the people came,
that John and Jordan might deliver
their troubled souls from sin and shame.
They came to seek a new beginning,
the human spirit's ageless quest,
repentance and an end of sinning,
renouncing every wrong confessed.
2 There as the Lord, baptized and praying,
rose from the stream the sinless One,
a voice was heard from heaven saying,
"This is my own beloved Son."
There as the Father's word was spoken,
not in the power of wind and flame,
but of his love and peace the token,
seen as a dove, the Spirit came.
3 O Son of Man, our nature sharing,
in whose obedience all are blest,
Saviour, our sins and sorrows bearing,
hear us and grant us this request:
daily to grow, by grace defended,
filled with the Spirit from above;
in Christ baptized, beloved, befriended,
children of God in peace and love. Topics: Jesus Christ Baptism Used With Tune: RENDEZ À DIEU
When John Baptized by Jordan's River
Prepare a way for the Lord
Author: Taizé Community Meter: 4.4.4.4 Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:4 Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Promise of the Messiah Used With Tune: WAIT FOR THE LORD
Prepare a way for the Lord
Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:1-22 Lyrics: 1 Wild and lone the prophet's voice
echoes through the desert still,
calling us to make a choice,
bidding us to do God's will:
"Turn from sin and be baptized;
cleanse your heart and mind and soul.
Quitting all the sin you prized,
yield your life to God's control.
2 "Bear the fruit repentance sows:
lives of justice, truth, and love.
Trust no other claim than those;
set your heart on things above.
Soon the Lord will come in power,
burning clean the threshing floor:
then will flames the chaff devour;
wheat alone shall fill God's store."
3 With such preaching stark and bold
John proclaimed salvation near,
and his timeless warnings hold
words of hope to all who hear.
So we dare to journey on,
led by faith through ways untrod,
till we come at last like John -
to behold the Lamb of God. Topics: The Grace of Jesus Christ Christ's Promised Coming Used With Tune: LA GRANGE (White)
Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice
Mit ernst, o menschenkinder
Author: V. Thilo, 1607-1662 Appears in 67 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:4-6 Topics: Advent
Mit ernst, o menschenkinder
Our Father, by Whose Name
Author: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8.8 Appears in 40 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:22-52; 3 Topics: Ordinary Time 27, Year B; Trinity Sunday; Family Life; Love for Others; Petition; Unity Used With Tune: RHOSYMEDRE
Our Father, by Whose Name
I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship
Author: William Young Fullerton, 1857-1932 Meter: 11.10.11.10 D Appears in 33 hymnals Scripture: Luke 3:6 Lyrics: 1 I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship,
should set his love upon the sons of men,
or why, as Shepherd, he should seek the wanderers,
to bring them back, they know not how or when.
But this I know, that he was born of Mary
when Bethl'em's manger was his only home,
and that he lived at Nazareth and laboured,
and so the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is come.
2 I cannot tell how silently he suffered,
as with his peace he graced this place of tears,
or how his heart upon the cross was broken,
the crown of pain to three and thirty years.
But this I know, he heals the broken-hearted
and stays our sin and calms our lurking fear
and lifts the burden from the heavy laden;
for still the Saviour, Saviour of the world is here.
3 I cannot tell how he will win the nations,
how he will claim his earthly heritage,
how satisfy the needs and aspirations
of east and west, of sinner and of sage.
But this I know, all flesh shall see his glory,
and he shall reap the harvest he has sown,
and some glad day his sun will shine in splendour
when he the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is known.
4 I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship,
when at his bidding every storm is stilled,
or who can say how great the jubilation
when every heart with love and joy is filled.
But this I know, the skies will thrill with rapture,
and myriad myriad human voices sing,
and earth to heav'n, and heav'n to earth, will answer,
'at last the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is King!' Topics: Christmas; Christmas I Year A Used With Tune: LONDONDERRY
I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship
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