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The Church's one foundation
Author: Samuel J. Stone Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 856 hymnals Topics: Church Building and Consecration; The Church Militant Lyrics:
The Church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is his new creation
By water and the word:
From heaven he came and sought her
To be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her,
And for her life he died.
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Elect from every nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth,
Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy Name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace endued.
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest;
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
'Mid toil and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace for evermore;
Till with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.
Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may dwell with thee.
Amen.
Used With Tune: AURELIA
The Church's one foundation
Rise Up, O Church of God
Author: William P. Merrill Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 250 hymnals Topics: The Living Church Renewal and Revival First Line: Rise up, O Church of God! Lyrics: 1 Rise up, O Church of God!
Have done with lesser things;
Give heart and mind and soul and strength
To serve the King of kings.
2 Rise up, O Church of God!
His kingdom tarries long;
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.
3 Rise up, O sons of God!
The Church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her task,
Rise up, and make her great!
4 Lift high the cross of Christ!
Tread where His feet have trod;
As foll'wers of the Son of Man,
Rise up, O Church of God! Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS
Rise Up, O Church of God
I Love Your Church, O God
Author: Timothy Dwight Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 1,320 hymnals Topics: God's Church Foundation; God's Church The Foundation; Church Lyrics: 1 I love your church, O God,
on earth your blest abode,
the people our redeemer saved
with his own precious blood.
2 I love your church, O God,
whose walls before you stand,
dear as the apple of your eye,
and graven on your hand.
3 In love my tears shall fall,
in love my prayers ascend,
to serve your church, my toils be given,
till toils and cares shall end.
4 Beyond my highest joys,
I prize your people's ways,
the sweet communion, solemn vows,
the hymns of love and praise.
5 Sure as your truth shall last,
to Zion shall be given
the brightest glories earth can yield,
and brighter bliss of heaven.
Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS
I Love Your Church, O God
How Firm a Foundation
Author: "K" Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2,123 hymnals Topics: The Church in the World Commitment: Trust; Church Anniversaries; Church Education First Line: How firm a foundation, you servants of God Lyrics: 1 How firm a foundation, you servants of God,
is laid for your faith in his excellent word!
What more can be said than to you has been said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
2 "Fear not, I am with you; O be not dismayed!
For I am your God and will still give you aid;
I'll strengthen and help you, and cause you to stand,
upheld by my righteous omnipotent hand.
3 "When through the deep waters I call you to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
for I will be with you, your troubles to bless,
and sanctify to you your deepest distress.
4 "When through fiery trials your pathway shall lie,
my grace, all-sufficient, shall be your supply:
the flame shall not hurt you, I only design
your dross to consume, and your gold to refine.
5 "The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose
I will not -- I will not desert to his foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
I'll never -- no, never -- no, never forsake!" Used With Tune: ST DENIO Text Sources: Rippon's A Selection of Hymns, 1787
How Firm a Foundation
O for a thousand tongues to sing
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,730 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Christmas; The Church Year Circumcision and Name of Jesus; The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Easter; The Church Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Church Worship - The Close of Service; The Church Worship - Morning Lyrics: 1 O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace!
2 My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of thy Name. A-men.
3 Jesus! the Name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease,
'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
'Tis life and health and peace.
4 He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His Blood can make the foulest clean,
His Blood availed for me.
5 He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.
6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come;
And leap, ye lame, for joy.
7 Glory to God, and praise, and love
Be ever, ever given
By saints below and saints above,
The Church in earth and heaven.
Amen. Used With Tune: AZMON
O for a thousand tongues to sing
We Are the Church
Author: Richard Avery; Donald Marsh Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Living in God's World Being the Church First Line: The church is not a building Refrain First Line: I am the church! You are the church Lyrics: Refrain:
I am the church! You are the church!
We are the church together!
All who follow Jesus, all around the world,
yes, we're the church together!
1 The church is not a building,
the church is not a steeple,
the church is not a resting place,
the church is a people. (Refrain)
2 We're many kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colors and all ages, too,
from all times and places. (Refrain)
3 And when the people gather,
there's singing and there's praying,
there's laughing and there's crying
sometimes, all of it saying, (Refrain)
4 At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the good news through the world
to all who would hear it. (Refrain)
Scripture: Acts 2:1-4 Used With Tune: [The church is not a building]
We Are the Church
The Church of Christ in Every Age
Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: The Church Lyrics: 1 The church of Christ in every age,
beset by change but Spirit-led,
must claim and test its heritage
and keep on rising from the dead.
2 Across the world, across the street,
the victims of injustice cry
for shelter and for bread to eat,
and never live before they die.
3 Then let the servant church arise,
a caring church that longs to be
a partner in Christ's sacrifice,
and clothed in Christ's humanity.
4 For Christ alone, whose blood was shed,
can cure the fever in our blood,
and teach us how to share our bread
and feed the starving multitude.
5 We have no mission but to serve
in full obedience to our Lord:
to care for all, without reserve,
and spread Christ's liberating word.
Scripture: Psalm 72:12-13 Used With Tune: WAREHAM
The Church of Christ in Every Age
All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Author: Thomas H. Troeger; William Kethe, 1561 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 719 hymnals Topics: Church Worship and Prayer Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell,
sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Delight in God whose praise you tell,
whose presence calls you to rejoice.
2 Know that there is one God, indeed,
who fashions us without our aid,
Who claims us, gives us all we need,
whose tender care will never fade.
3 Enter the sacred gates with praise,
with joy approach the temple walls.
Extol and bless our God always
as people whom the Spirit calls.
4 Proclaim again that God is good,
whose mercy is forever sure,
Whose truth at all times firmly stood,
and shall from age to age endure. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH
All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
Author: John Mason Neale Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 289 hymnals Topics: The Church The Church of Christ; Christ Head of the Church; Church Communion of Saints; Church Cornerstone of; Church Lord's House Lyrics: 1 Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord and precious,
binding all the church in one;
holy Zion's help forever,
and her confidence alone.
2 All that dedicated city,
dearly loved of God on high,
in exultant jubilation
pours perpetual melody;
God the One in Three adoring
in glad hymns eternally.
3 To this temple, where we call thee,
come, O Lord of hosts, today:
with thy wonted loving-kindness
hear thy people as they pray;
and thy fullest benediction
shed within its walls alway.
4 Here vouchsafe to all thy servants
what they ask of thee to gain,
what they gain from thee forever
with the blessed to retain,
and hereafter in thy glory
evermore with thee to reign.
5 Laud and honor to the Father,
laud and honor to the Son,
laud and honor to the Spirit,
ever Three and ever One,
One in might, and One in glory,
while unending ages run.
Scripture: Isaiah 28:16 Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY Text Sources: Latin, 7th cent.; Alt. in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,236 hymnals Topics: Acts of the Church Witness to the Resurrection—Funeral Lyrics: 1 Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home:
2 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting you are God,
To endless years the same.
3 A thousand ages in your sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
5 Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
O be our guard while life shall last,
And our eternal home.
Amen. Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
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