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Come and worship

Author: James Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 793 hymnals Topics: Angels; Children and All-Age Worship; Christmas; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Epiphany; Church year Presentation of Christ in the temple (Candlemas); Jesus coming again; Jesus Names and images for; The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A; The First Sunday of Christmas Year C First Line: Angels from the realms of glory Lyrics: 1 Angels from the realms of glory, wing your flight o'er all the earth; ye who sang creation's story now proclaim Messiah's birth: Refrain: Come and worship Christ the new-born King, come and worship, worship Christ the new-born King. 2 Shepherds in the field abiding, watching o'er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing; yonder shines the infant Light: [Refrain] 3 Sages, leave your contemplations; brighter visions beam afar; seek the great Desire of Nations; ye have seen his natal star: [Refrain] 4 Though an infant now we view him, he shall fill his Father's throne, gather all the nations to him; every knee shall then bow down: [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Used With Tune: IRIS Text Sources: From Iris, 1816 and The Christmas Box, 1825

Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell

Author: Michael Arnold Perry (1942-1996) Meter: Irregular Appears in 434 hymnals Topics: Angels; Atonement; Children and All-Age Worship; Christmas; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Epiphany; The First Sunday of Christmas Year A; Epiphany First Line: The first Nowell the angel did say Lyrics: 1 The first Nowell the angel did say was to Bethlehem's shepherds in fields as they lay; in fields where they lay keeping their sheep on a cold winter's night that was so deep: Refrain: Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell, born is the King of Israel! 2 Then wise men from a country far looked up and saw a guiding star; they travelled on by night and day to reach the place where Jesus lay: [Refrain] 3 At Bethlehem they entered in, on bended knee they worshipped him; they offered there in his presence their gold and myrrh and frankincense: [Refrain] 4 Then let us all with one accord sing praises to our heavenly Lord; for Christ has our salvation wrought and with his blood our life has bought: [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 2:1-11 Used With Tune: THE FIRST NOWELL Text Sources: West-country carol, possibly 18th century

This, this is Christ the King

Author: William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.8.6.7 Appears in 224 hymnals Topics: Angels; Children and All-Age Worship; Christmas; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Epiphany; Church Year Good Friday; Mary; Other Saints and Festivals Holy Innocents; Other Saints and Festivals The Naming of Jesus; The First Sunday of Christmas Year B; The First Sunday of Christmas Year C First Line: What child is this, who, laid to rest Lyrics: 1 What child is this, who, laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping? whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping? this, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds worship and angels sing: haste, haste to bring him praise the babe, the son of Mary. 2 Why lies he in such mean estate, where ox and ass are feeding? Come, have no fear, God's Son is here, his love all loves exceeding: nails, spear, shall pierce him through, the cross be borne for me, for you: hail, hail, the Saviour comes, the babe, the son of Mary. 3 So bring him incense, gold and myrrh, all tongues and peoples own him, the King of kings salvation brings, let every heart enthrone him: raise, raise your song on high while Mary sings a lullaby, joy, joy, for Christ is born, the babe, the son of Mary. Scripture: Luke 2:6-16 Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES

There is a green hill far away

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 720 hymnals Topics: Atonement; Children and All-Age Worship; Church year Passiontide; Church Year Good Friday; God Love of; Good Friday; Love for God; Passiontide Lyrics: 1 There is a green hill far away, without a city wall, where the dear Lord was crucified, who died to save us all. 2 We may not know, we cannot tell, what pains he had to bear, but we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there. 3 He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good, that we might go at last to heaven, saved by his precious blood. 4 There was no other good enough to pay the price of sin; he only could unlock the gate of heaven, and let us in. 5 O dearly, dearly has he loved, and we must love him too, and trust in his redeeming blood, and try his works to do. Scripture: Hebrews 13:12-13 Used With Tune: HORSLEY

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to thee

Author: Stuart K. Hine (1899-1989) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 158 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Atonement; Beauty; Children and All-Age Worship; Church Year Good Friday; Creation; Creation and the Environment; Jesus coming again; Other Saints and Festivals Harvest Thanksgiving; Praise; The Second Sunday before Advent Year A; The Second Sunday before Lent Year A; The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Rogationtide First Line: O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder Scripture: Psalm 8 Used With Tune: HOW GREAT THOU ART

Guide me, O thou great Redeemer

Author: William Williams (1717-1791); Peter Williams (1727-1796) Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 1,897 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Death and Bereavement; Guidance; Pilgrimage; Proper 12 Year B; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 20 Year A; Stages of Life; The Third Sunday of Lent Year A; Water Lyrics: 1 Guide me, O thou great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty; hold me with thy powerful hand: Bread of heaven, feed me now and evermore. 2 Open now the crystal fountain whence the healing stream doth flow; let the fiery cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through: strong deliverer, be thou still my strength and shield. 3 When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside; death of death, and hell's destruction, land me safe on Canaan's side: songs and praises I will ever give to thee. Scripture: Exodus 16:1-4 Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA

O for a thousand tongues to sing

Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,806 hymnals Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; Deliverance; Jesus Name; Praise; Proper 18 Year B; Proper 23 Year C; Proper 25 Year B; Sin; The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C; The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year C Lyrics: 1 O for a thousand tongues to sing my dear Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! 2 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. 3 He breaks the power of cancelled sin, he sets the prisoner free: his blood can make the foulest clean; his blood availed for me. 4 He speaks; and, listening to his voice, new life the dead receive, the mournful broken hearts rejoice, the humble poor believe. 5 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, your loosened tongues employ; ye blind, behold your Saviour come; and leap, ye lame, for joy! 6 My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim and spread through all the earth abroad the honours of thy name. Scripture: Luke 24:47-48 Used With Tune: RICHMOND

O Jesus, I have promised

Author: John Ernest Bode (1816-1874) Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 648 hymnals Topics: Christian Initiation; Children and All-Age Worship; Commitment; Discipleship; Future hope; Guidance; Proper 18 Year C; Proper 19 Year B; Self-offering; Sin; Temptation; The Fifth Sunday of Lent Year B; The First Sunday of Lent Year C; The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year B; Vocation Lyrics: 1 O Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end; be thou for ever near me, my Master and my Friend: I shall not fear the battle if thou art by my side, nor wander from the pathway if thou wilt be my guide. 2 O let me feel thee near me: the world is ever near; I see the sights that dazzle, the tempting sounds I hear; my foes are ever near me, around me and within; but, Jesus, draw thou nearer, and shield my soul from sin. 3 O let me hear thee speaking in accents clear and still above the storms of passion, the murmurs of self-will; O speak to reassure me, to hasten or control; O speak, and make me listen, thou guardian of my soul. 4 O Jesus, thou hast promised to all who follow thee, that where thou art in glory there shall thy servant be; and, Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end: O give me grace to follow, my Master and my Friend. 5 O let me see thy foot-marks, and in them plant mine own; my hope to follow duly is in thy strength alone: O guide me, call me, draw me, uphold me to the end; and then in heaven receive me, my Saviour and my Friend. Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 Used With Tune: WOLVERCOTE

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven

Author: Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 561 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Angels; Children and All-Age Worship; God faithfulness of in creation; God in grace and mercy; God Protection of; Praise; Proper 13 Year A; Proper 13 Year B; Proper 16 Year C; Proper 18 Year B Lyrics: 1 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, to his feet thy tribute bring; ransomed healed, restored, forgiven, who like me his praise should sing? Alleluia, alleluia, praise the everlasting King. 2 Praise him for his grace and favour to our fathers in distress; praise him still the same for ever, slow to chide and swift to bless: Alleluia, alleluia, glorious in his faithfulness. 3 Father-like, he tends and spares us, well our feeble frame he knows; in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes: Alleluia, alleluia, widely as his mercy flows. 4 Frail as summer's flower we flourish; blows the wind and it is gone; but, while mortals rise and perish, God endures unchanging on: Alleluia, alleluia, praise the high eternal One. 5 Angels, help us to adore him; ye behold him face to face; sun and moon bow down before him, dwellers all in time and space: Alleluia, alleluia, praise with us the God of grace. Scripture: Psalm 103 Used With Tune: PRAISE MY SOUL

The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 626 hymnals Topics: Assurance; Children and All-Age Worship; Comfort and Consolation; Death and Bereavement; God Presence of; Providence; Trust and Confidence; Funerals and The Departed Lyrics: 1 The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want; he makes me down to lie in pastures green; he leadeth me the quiet waters by. 2 My soul he doth restore again, and me to walk doth make within the paths of righteousness, e'en for his own name's sake. 3 Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill; for thou art with me, and thy rod and staff me comfort still. 4 My table thou hast furnishèd in presence of my foes; my head thou dost with oil anoint, and my cup overflows. 5 Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; and in God's house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: CRIMOND Text Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1650