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We Plough the Fields

Author: Mathias Claudius; Jane Montgomery Campbell Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 453 hymnals First Line: We plough the field and scatter Lyrics: 1 We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land, but it is fed and watered by your almighty hand; you send the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain, the breezes and the sunshine, and soft refreshing rain. [Refrain:] All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above; we thank you, God, O holy God, for all your love. 2 You only are the maker of all things near and far; you paint the wayside flower, you light the evening star; the wind and waves obey you, by you the birds are fed; much more to us, your children, you give us daily bread. [Refrain] 3 We thank you then, O Maker, for all things bright and good, the seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food; accept the gifts we offer for all your love imparts, and, what from us you long for, our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Topics: The Church at Worship Special Days, Seasons, Occasions: Thanksgiving; Choruses and Refrains; God Creator; Harvest; Nature; Providence; Rural Life; Seasons Changing; Sowing and Reaping; Thankfulness; Thankfulness; Thanksgiving Day; Youth; Thanksgiving Year A; Proper 17 Year B; Thanksgiving Year B; Thanksgiving Year C Used With Tune: WIR PFLÜGEN

Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth

Author: Jean Wiebe Janzen; Julian (Juliana) of Norwich Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: God The Triune God; Birth; Empowerment; God Image (Mother); Holy Spirit; Last Supper; Brevity of Life; Morning; Nurture; Patience; Trinity; Trinity Sunday Year A; Baptism of Jesus Year B; Proper 9 Year C Used With Tune: HESPERUS (QUEBEC)

Jesus, United by Your Grace

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 167 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Jesus, united by your grace, and each to each endeared, with confidence we seek your face, and know our prayer is heard. 2 Help us to see in each a friend, each other's cross to bear, let all their friendly aid extend, and feel the other's care. 3 Up into you, our living head, let us in all things grow, till you have made us free indeed and faithful here below. 4 Drawn by the lodestone of your love, let all our hearts unite; let us toward each other move, and move toward your light. Topics: Church in the World Discipleship: Love in Action; Church Community in Christ; Freedom; Jesus Christ High Priest; Love; Love Feast; Love for Others; Advent 1 Year B; Easter 6 Year B; Proper 23 Year B; Proper 8 Year C; Proper 10 Year C; Monday in Holy Week Year ABC Used With Tune: ARLINGTON

Dear God, Who Loves All Humankind

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 502 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Dear God, who loves all humankind, forgive our foolish ways; reclothe us in our rightful mind; in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard, beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up, and follow thee. 3 O sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by love! 4 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. 5 Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still, small voice of calm! Topics: Church in the World Renewal: Healing; Calling and Response; Calmness and Serenity; Consecration; Discipleship and Service; Forgiveness; Forgiveness from God; Healing; Jesus Christ Call of; Peace (Inner, Calmness, Serenity; Prayer; Renewal; Repentance; Rest; Reverence/Wonder Before God; Service; Service Music Invitation to Prayer; Surrender; Trust; Epiphany 3 Year A; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 14 Year A; Epiphany 3 Year B; Proper 12 Year B; Epiphany 5 Year C; Proper 7 Year C; Proper 11 Year C; Proper 19 Year C; Proper 20 Year C Used With Tune: REST

Come, We That Love

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,787 hymnals First Line: Come, we that love the Lord Lyrics: 1 Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known, join in a song with sweet accord, and thus surround the throne. 2 Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God; but children of the heavenly King may speak their joys abroad. 3 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields, or walk the golden streets. 4 Then let our songs abound, and every tear be dry; we're marching through Emmanuel's ground, to fairer worlds on high. Topics: A New Heaven and A New Earth Completion of Creation and City of God; Biblical Characters Moses; Celebration; Church Triumphant; City/City of God; Cloud of Witnesses; Eternal Life; Funerals and Memorial Services; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Joy; Kingdom of God; Love for God/Christ; Music and Singing; Pilgrimage and Conflict; Praise; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Victory; Witness; Worship; Zeal; Zion; Proper 22 Year A; Easter 4 Year C; Proper 16 Year C; Proper 28 Year C; Easter Evening Year ABC Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS

Were You There

Meter: Irregular Appears in 217 hymnals First Line: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Lyrics: 1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?) Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?) 2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (Were you there?) Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (Were you there?) 3 Were you there when the sun refused to shine? (Were you there?) Were you there when the sun refused to shine? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when the sun refused to shine? (Were you there?) 4 Were you there when they pierced him in the side? (Were you there?) Were you there when they pierced him in the side? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they pierced him in the side? (Were you there?) 5 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? (Were you there?) Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? (Were you there?) Topics: Choruses and Refrains; Concern; Jesus Christ Cross; Jesus Christ Passion; Sin; Spirituals; Suffering; Sun; Good Friday Year B; Holy Thursday Year C; Good Friday Year C; Monday in Holy Week Year ABC; Good Friday Year ABC Used With Tune: WERE YOU THERE Text Sources: African-American spiritual

Your Hand, O God, Has Guided

Author: Edward H. Plumptre Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 55 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Your hand, O God, has guided your flock from age to age; the wondrous tale is written, full clear, on every page. Our forebears owned your goodness, and we their deeds record; and both of this bear witness: one church, one faith, one Lord. 2 Your heralds brought glad tidings to greatest as to least; they bade them rise, and hasten to share the heavenly feast. And this was all their teaching, in every deed and word, to all alike proclaiming: one church, one faith, one Lord. 3 Through many days of darkness, through many scenes of strife, the faithful few fought bravely to guard your people's life. Their gospel of redemption, sin pardoned, earth restored, was all in this enfolded: one church, one faith, one Lord. 4 And we, shall we be faithless? Shall hearts fail, hands hang down? Shall we evade the conflict and cast away our crown? Not so: in God's deep counsels some better thing is stored; we will maintain, unflinching, one church, one faith, one Lord. 5 Your mercy will not fail us, nor leave your work undone; with your right hand to help us, the victory shall be won; and then, by earth and heaven, your name shall be adored, and this shall be our anthem: one church, one faith, one Lord. Topics: God Nature of God; Church Triumphant; Evangelism (Good News); Faith; Feast; God Guidance; God Mercy; God Nature; Good News, Gospel; Healing; Heritage; Redemption; Unity; Victory; Witness; Easter 5 Year A; Proper 20 Year A; Proper 13 Year B; Proper 15 Year C Used With Tune: THORNBURY

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,239 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: 2 under the shadow of thy throne thy saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is thine arm alone, and our defence is sure 3 Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame, from everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages, in thy sight, are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 5 Time like an ever-rolling stream soon bears us all away; we fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. 6 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guide while troubles last, and our eternal home. Topics: Assurance; Christian Year New Year; Christian Year Reformation Day; Church Anniversaries; Courage; Eternal Life; Funeral Vigil; Funerals and Memorial Services; God Creator; God Eternity and Power; God Faithfulness; God Guardian/Help; God Power/Might; God Protection; God Strength and Refuge; Guidance; Heritage; Hope; Brevity of Life; New Year; Pilgrimage and Conflict; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Providence; Psalter/Psalm Paraphrases; Saints; Security; Steadfastness; Time; Trust; Worship; Proper 17 Year A; Proper 25 Year A; Proper 27 Year A; Advent 2 Year B; Proper 28 Year B; Proper 8 Year C; Proper 24 Year C; New Year Year ABC; New Year Year ABC; Holy thursday Year ABC Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE

Take My Life and Let It Be

Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,200 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Take my life and let it be consecrated, all for thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love, take my feet, and let them be swift and purposeful for thee. 3 Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from thee; take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose. 4 Take my will, and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine; take my heart, it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne. 5 Take my love: and I will pour at thy feet its treasure store; take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee. Topics: The Church at Worship Profession of Faith, Ordination, Commissioning, Installation; Acceptance of Christ; Commissioning; Commitment; Confirmation; Consecration; Decision; Discipleship and Service; Installation Services; Jesus Christ Love For; Love; Love for God/Christ; Ministry; Obedience; Ordination; Stewardship; Surrender; Witness; Youth; Proper 16 Year A; Proper 24 Year A; Epiphany 2 Year B; Proper 13 Year B; Proper 19 Year B; Proper 20 Year B; Proper 23 Year B; Baptism of Jesus Year C; Epiphany 2 Year C; Epiphany 5 Year C; Epiphany 7 Year C; Lent 5 Year C; Proper 11 Year C; Proper 18 Year C; Proper 21 Year C; Proper 24 Year C; Thanksgiving Year C Used With Tune: MOZART

Come In, Come In and Sit Down (Part of the Family)

Author: James K. Manley Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: You know the reason why you came Refrain First Line: Come in, come in and sit down Topics: The Church at Worship Opening and Morning Hymns; liturgical Opening Hymns; Choruses and Refrains; Jesus Christ Kingship, Conqueror; Opening Hymns; Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Welcome Used With Tune: PART OF THE FAMILY