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Break thou the bread of life
Author: Mary Lathbury, 1841-1913; Alexander Groves, 1842-1909 Appears in 723 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:17-18 Lyrics: 1 Break thou the bread of life,
dear Lord, to me,
as thou didst break the loaves
beside the sea:
beyond the sacred page
I seek thee, Lord;
my spirit pants for thee,
O living Word!
2 Thou art the bread of life,
O Lord, to me,
thy holy word the truth
that saveth me.
Give me to eat and live
with thee above;
teach me to love thy truth,
for thou art love.
3 O send thy Spirit, Lord,
now unto me,
that he may touch my eyes,
and make me see:
show me the truth concealed
within thy word,
and in thy book revealed
I see thee, Lord.
4 Bless thou the truth, dear Lord,
to me, to me,
as thou didst bless the bread
by Galilee:
then shall all bondage cease,
all fetters fall,
and I shall find my peace,
my all in all! Topics: Proper 12 Year B; Proper 13 Year B Used With Tune: LATHBURY
Break thou the bread of life
O Love that wilt not let me go
Author: George Matheson, 1842-1906 Meter: 8.8.8.8.6 Appears in 677 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:23 Lyrics: 1 O Love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee:
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller, be.
2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee:
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee:
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain,
that morn shall tearless be.
4 O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee:
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be. Topics: General Hymns Faith, Hope and Love Used With Tune: ST MARGARET
O Love that wilt not let me go
Take the Name of Jesus with You
Author: Lydia Baxter Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 639 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:21 Refrain First Line: Precious name, O how sweet Lyrics: 1 Take the name of Jesus with you,
Child of sorrow and of woe;
It will joy and comfort give you--
Take it, then, where' er you go.
Refrain:
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven;
Precious name, O how sweet!
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.
Precious name, O how sweet, how sweet!
2 Take the name of Jesus ever,
As a shield from every snare;
If temptations round you gather,
Breathe that holy name in prayer. [Refrain]
3 O the precious name of Jesus!
How it thrills our souls with joy,
When His loving arms receive us,
And His songs our tongues employ! [Refrain]
4 At the name of Jesus bowing,
Falling prostrate at His feet,
King of kings in heaven we'll crown Him,
When our journey is complete. [Refrain]
Amen. Topics: Christ Strength and Refuge; Joy; Name of Jesus, The; Temptation; Trial and Conflict; Life in Christ Joy Used With Tune: PRECIOUS NAME
Take the Name of Jesus with You
Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus
Author: John Bakewell (1721-1819) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 625 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23 First Line: Hail, thou once despised Jesus! Lyrics: 1 Hail, thou once despised Jesus!
Hail, thou Galilean King!
Thou didst suffer to release us;
thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail, thou universal Saviour!
Thou hast borne our sin and shame;
by thy merit we find favour:
life is given through thy name.
2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
all our sins on thee were laid:
by almighty love anointed,
thou hast full atonement made.
All thy people are forgiven
through the virtue of thy blood:
opened is the gate of heaven,
peace is made 'twixt us and God.
3 Jesus, hail! Enthroned in glory,
there for ever to abide;
all the heavenly hosts adore thee,
seated at thy Father's side.
Worship, honor, power, and blessing
thou art worthy to receive;
highest praises, without ceasing,
right it is for us to give. Topics: Adoration; Ascension and Exaltation Used With Tune: IN BABILONE
Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus
Fairest Lord Jesus
Meter: 5.6.8.5.5.8 Appears in 571 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23 Topics: Creation; Jesus Christ Used With Tune: CRUSADERS' HYMN Text Sources: Münster Gesangbuch, 1677; tr. Church Chorals and Choir Studies, 1850, alt.
Fairest Lord Jesus
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 551 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23 Lyrics: 1 Hail the day that sees him rise, alleluia!
To his throne above the skies; alleluia!
Christ, the Lamb for sinners given, alleluia!
enters now the highest heaven! Alleluia!
2 There for him high triumph waits; alleluia!
lift your heads, eternal gates; alleluia!
he hath conquered death and sin; alleluia!
take the King of Glory in. Alleluia!
3 Highest heaven its Lord receives, alleluia!
yet he loves the earth he leaves; alleluia!
though returning to his throne, alleluia!
still he calls the world his own. Alleluia!
4 See! He lifts his hands above, alleluia!
See! He shows the prints of love; alleluia!
Hark! His gracious lips bestow alleluia!
blessings on his church below.Alleluia!
5 Still for us he intercedes; alleluia!
his prevailing death he pleads, alleluia!
near himself prepares our place, alleluia!
he the first-fruits of our race. Alleluia!
6 Lord, though parted from our sight, alleluia!
far above the starry height, alleluia!
grant our hearts may thither rise, alleluia!
seeking thee above the skies. Alleluia! Topics: Ascension and Exaltation Used With Tune: ASCENSION
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Alleluia
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 491 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:20-21 Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Alleluia,
our triumphant holy day, Alleluia,
who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia,
suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia.
2 Hymns of praise then let us sing Alleluia,
unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia,
who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia,
sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia.
3 But the pains that he endured Alleluia,
our salvation have procured; Alleluia,
now above the sky he's King, Alleluia,
where the angels ever sing Alleluia. Topics: Easter; Easter Day Year A; Easter Day Year B; Easter Day Year C Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN Text Sources: Lyra Davidica, 1708 and others
Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Alleluia
Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might
Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1811-1875 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 483 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23 Topics: Christian Character; Pilgrimage; Christian Life; Baptism (general) Used With Tune: PENTECOST
Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might
Lord, Speak to Me
Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 454 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:23 First Line: Lord, speak to me, that I may speak Lyrics: 1 Lord, speak to me, that I may speak
in living echoes of thy tone;
as thou hast sought, so let me seek
thy erring children, lost and lone.
2 O lead me, Lord, that I may lead
the wand'ring and the wav'ring feet.
O feed me, Lord, that I may feed
thy hung'ring ones with manna sweet.
3 O strengthen me that while I stand
firm on the Rock, and strong in thee,
I may stretch out a healing hand,
filled with thine own great charity.
4 O fill me with your fullness, Lord,
until my heart shall o'erflow
in kindling thought and glowing word,
thy love to tell, thy praise to show.
5 So send me, Lord, and let me be
an incarnation of thy care,
until thy blessed face I see,
thy rest, thy joy, thy glory share.
Topics: Call and Response Used With Tune: WINDHAM
Lord, Speak to Me
Worthy the Lamb!
Author: Rev. James Allen (1734-1804) Appears in 410 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:22 First Line: Glory to God on high, Let praises fill the sky Topics: Christ Adoration of; Christ Lamb of God; Praise To Christ
Worthy the Lamb!
We love to sing around our King
Author: Rev. George Washington Bethune (1805-1862) Appears in 316 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:21 First Line: There is no name so sweet on earth Topics: Children's Songs Used With Tune: THE SWEETEST NAME
We love to sing around our King
Jesus Is All the World to Me
Author: Will L. Thompson, 1847-1909 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8.8.3 Appears in 305 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:21 Lyrics: 1 Jesus is all the world to me,
My life, my joy, my all;
He is my strength from day to day,
Without Him I would fall:
When I am sad, to Him I go,
No other one can cheer me so;
When I am sad, He makes me glad,
He's my friend.
2 Jesus is all the world to me,
My friend in trials sore;
I go to Him for blessings, and
He gives them o'er and o'er:
He sends the sunshine and the rain,
He sends the harvest's golden grain;
Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain,
He's my friend.
3 Jesus is all the world to me,
And true to Him I'll be;
Oh, how could I this friend deny,
When he's so true to me?
Following Him I know I'm right,
He watches o'er me day and night;
Following him by day and night,
He's my friend.
4 Jesus is all the world to me,
I want no better friend;
I trust Him now, I'll trust Him when
Life's fleeting days shall end:
Beautiful life with such a friend,
Beautiful life that has no end;
Eternal life, eternal joy,
He's my friend. Topics: The Gospel in the Christian Life Faith, Trust, Love; Confidence; Faithfulness of the Believer; Jesus Christ Friend; New Life in Jesus Christ; Trust Used With Tune: ALL THE WORLD
Jesus Is All the World to Me
Jesus, the name high over all
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 299 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:21 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, the name high over all,
in hell, or earth, or sky;
angels and mortals prostrate fall,
and devils fear and fly,
and devils fear and fly.
2 Jesus, the name to sinners dear,
the name to sinners giv'n;
it scatters all their guilty fear,
it turns their hell to heaven,
it turns their hell to heaven.
3 Jesus, the pris'ner's fetters breaks,
and bruises Satan's head;
pow'r into strengthless souls he speaks,
and life into the dead,
and life into the dead.
4 O, that the world might taste and see
the riches of his grace!
The arms of love that compass me,
hold all the human race,
hold all the human race.
5 His only righteousness I show,
his saving truth proclaim;
'tis all my business here below
to cry, 'Behold the Lamb!'
to cry, 'Behold the Lamb!'
6 Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp his name;
preach him to all, and cry in death:
'Behold, behold the Lamb!'
'Behold, behold the Lamb!' Topics: Easter; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year A Christ the King Used With Tune: LYDIA
Jesus, the name high over all
And Can It Be
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 286 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:22 First Line: And can in tbe that I should gain Lyrics: 1 And can it be that I should gain
an interest in the Savior's blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain?
For me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Refrain:
Amazing love! how can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
2 He left his Father's throne above,
so free, so infinite his grace!
Emptied himself of all but love,
and bled for Adam's helpless race!
'Tis mercy all, immense and free,
for, O my God, it found out me. [Refrain]
3 Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature's night.
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke--the dungeon flamed with light!
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed thee. [Refrain]
4 No condemnation now I dread:
Jesus, and all in him, is mine!
Alive in him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
bold I approach the eternal throne
and claim the crown, through Christ my own. [Refrain] Used With Tune: SAGINA
And Can It Be
The Day Thou Gavest
Author: John Ellerton (1826-1893) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 282 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23 First Line: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended Lyrics: 1 The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
the darkness falls at thy behest.
To thee our morning hymns ascended,
thy praise shall sanctify our rest.
2 We thank thee that thy church unsleeping
while earth rolls onward into light,
through all the world her watch is keeping,
and rests not now by day or night.
3 As o’er each continent and island
the dawn leads on another day,
the voice of prayer is never silent,
nor dies the strain of praise away.
4 The sun that bids us rest is waking,
thy faithful 'neath the western sky,
and hour by hour fresh lips are making
thy wondrous doings heard on high.
5 So be it, Lord! Thy throne shall never,
like earth’s proud empires, pass away;
thy kingdom stands and grows forever,
till all thy creatures own thy sway. Topics: Evening; Church Used With Tune: ST. CLEMENT
The Day Thou Gavest
Come, Dearest Lord, Descend and Dwell
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 281 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:23 Lyrics: 1 Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell
by faith and love in ev'ry breast;
then shall we know and taste and feel
the joys that cannot be expressed.
2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,
make our enlarged souls possess
and learn the height and breadth and length
of thine unmeasurable grace.
3 Now to the God whose power can do
more than our thoughts or wishes know,
be everlasting honors done
by all the church, through Christ his Son.
Used With Tune: TUGWOOD
Come, Dearest Lord, Descend and Dwell
The Lord is King! lift up thy voice
Author: Josiah Conder Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 256 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:20 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Father Used With Tune: WALTON
The Lord is King! lift up thy voice
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
Author: John Cosin, 1594-1672 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 238 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:17-18 Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
and lighten with celestial fire;
thou the anointing Spirit art,
who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart:
2 Thy blessèd unction from above
is comfort, life, and fire of love;
enable with perpetual light
the dullness of our blinded sight:
3 Anoint and cheer our soilèd face
with the abundance of thy grace:
keep far our foes, give peace at home;
where thou art guide no ill can come.
4 Teach us to know the Father, Son,
and thee, of both, to be but One;
that through the ages all along
this may be our endless song,
5 Praise to thy eternal merit,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Topics: Pentecost; Pentecost Year B Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR (MECHLIN) Text Sources: Veni, Creator Spiritus
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
Of the Father's love begotten
Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-413; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 214 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:21-23 Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten,
ere the worlds began to be,
he is Alpha and Omega;
he the source, the ending he,
of the things that are, that have been,
and that future years shall see,
evermore and evermore.
2 By his word they were created;
he commanded; it was done:
heav'en and earth and depths of ocean,
in their threefold order one;
all that grows beneath the shining
of the light of moon and sun,
evermore and evermore.
3 O that birth for ever blessèd
when the Virgin, full of grace,
by the Holy Ghost conceiving,
bore the Saviour of our race,
and the babe, the world’s Redeemer,
first revealed his sacred face,
evermore and evermore.
4 O ye heights of heav'n, adore him;
angel hosts, his praises sing;
pow'rs, dominions, bow before him,
and extol our God and King:
let no tongue on earth be silent,
ev'ry voice in concert ring,
evermore and evermore.
5 This is he whom seers and sages
sang of old with one accord;
whom the writings of the prophets
promised in their faithful word;
now he shines, the long-expected;
let our songs declare his worth,
evermore and evermore. Topics: Christmas; Year A Christ the King; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Christmas Day Used With Tune: CORDE NATUS (DIVINYM MYSTERIUM)
Of the Father's love begotten
Glory be to God the Father
Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-89 Appears in 210 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 1:20-23 Lyrics: 1 Glory be to God the Father,
glory be to God the Son,
glory be to God the Spirit,
God almighty, Three in One!
Glory, glory, glory, glory
while eternal ages run.
2 Glory be to him who loved us,
washed us from each spot and stain;
glory be to him who bought us,
made us kings with him to reign;
Glory, glory, glory, glory
to the Lamb that once was slain.
3 Glory to the king of angels,
glory to the church’s king,
glory to the king of nations,
heaven and earth, your praises bring;
Glory, glory, glory, glory
to the King of Glory bring.
4 'Glory, blessing, praise eternal!'
thus the choir of angels sings;
'Honour, riches, power, dominion!'
thus its praise creation brings;
Glory, glory, glory, glory,
glory to the King of kings! Topics: Adoration and Praise; Christ the King; Creation; Glory of God; Lamb of God; Providence; Worship Earthly and Heavenly; Worship Gathering Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE
Glory be to God the Father
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