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Praise, my soul, the king of heaven!

Author: H. F. Lyte (1793-1847) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 562 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Lyrics: 1 Praise, my soul, the king of heaven! to his feet your 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 as ever, slow to blame and swift to bless: Alleluia, alleluia! glorious in his faithfulness! 3 Father-like he tends and spares us; all our hopes and fears he knows, in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes, Alleluia, alleluia! widely as his mercy flows. 4 Angels, help us to adore him — you behold him face to face; sun and moon, bow down before him, praise him, all in time and space: Alleluia, alleluia! praise with us the God of grace! Scripture: Psalm 103 Used With Tune: PRAISE, MY SOUL

Now the Green Blade Rises

Author: John M. C. Crum Meter: 11.11.10.11 Appears in 64 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Easter; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year Easter; Funeral Vigil; Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Life; Love; Suffering; Trust; Victory; Lent 5 Year A; Easter 1 Year A; Lent 5 Year B; Easter 3 Year B; Epiphany 7 Year C; Easter 1 Year C; Pentecost Year C First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain Used With Tune: NOËL NOUVELET

Come down, O Love divine!

Author: Bianco da Siena (died 1434); R. F. Littledale (1833-1890) Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY

Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether

Author: Percy Dearmer Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.4.7 Appears in 26 hymnals

LORD, You Have Lavished on Your Land

Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13 Scripture: Psalm 85 Used With Tune: MELITA

Give us Christ's love, its depth and length

Author: David Mowbray (born 1938) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way First Line: Father of all, whose laws have stood Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17 Used With Tune: RYBURN

Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers

Author: Andrew Reed Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 402 hymnals Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Christian Year Pentecost; God House, Home; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Illumination; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Work; Light; Petition; Prayer; Sacrifice; Lent 5 Year A; Pentecost Year A; Epiphany 2 Year B; Epiphany 7 Year B; Pentecost Year B; Proper 15 Year B; Proper 21 Year B; Pentecost Year C Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, attend our prayers, and make this house your home; descend with all your gracious powers: O come, great Spirit, come! 2 Come as the light: to us reveal our emptiness and woe; and lead us in those paths of life where all the righteous go. 3 Come as the wind: sweep clean away what dead within us lies, and search and freshen all our souls with living energies. 4 Come as the fire and purge our hearts like sacrificial flame; let our whole soul an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 5 Spirit divine, attend our prayers; make a lost world your home; descend with all your gracious powers, O come, great Spirit, come! Used With Tune: GRÄFENBURG

Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart

Author: George Croly Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 355 hymnals Topics: Holy Spirit Praise and Invocation; Assurance; Christian Year Pentecost; Commitment; Consecration; Doubt; Faith; God Love for; Holy Spirit; Holy Spirit Indwelling; Holy Spirit Presence; Holy Spirit Work; Inner Life; Jesus Christ Teacher/Teachings; Love for God/Christ; Prayer; Renewal; Seeking God; Baptism of Jesus Year A; Epiphany 2 Year A; Epiphany 6 Year A; Lent 5 Year A; Proper 9 Year A; Proper 10 Year A; Proper 25 Year A; Proper 7 Year B; Proper 21 Year B; Baptism of Jesus Year C; Easter 7 Year C; Proper 22 Year C; Proper 26 Year C Lyrics: 1 Spirit of God, descend upon my heart; wean it from earth, through all its pulses move; stoop to my weakness, strength to me impart, and make me love you as I ought to love. 2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies, no sudden rending of the veil of clay, no angel visitant, no opening skies, but take the dimness of my soul away. 3 Hast you not bid me love you, God and King; all, all your own, soul, heart and strength and mind? I see your cross: there teach my heart to cling. O let me seek you and O let me find! 4 Teach me to love you as your angels love, one holy passion filling all my frame, the baptism of the heaven-descended dove, my heart an altar and your love the flame. Used With Tune: MORECAMBE

Let every Christian pray

Author: F. Pratt Green (born 1903) Meter: 6.6.6 D Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Pentecost 7 The More Excellent Way Lyrics: 1 Let every Christian pray, this day, and every day: Come, Holy Spirit, come! Was not the Church we love commissioned from above? Come, Holy Spirit, come! 2 The Spirit brought to birth the church of Christ on earth to seek and save the lost: never has he withdrawn, since that tremendous dawn, the gifts at Pentecost. 3 Age after age, he strove to teach her how to love: Come, Holy Spirit, come; age after age, anew she proved the gospel true: Come, Holy Spirit, come! 4 Only the Spirit's power can fit us for this hour: Come, Holy Spirit, come; instruct, inspire, unite, and make us see the light: Come, Holy Spirit, come! Used With Tune: LUDGATE

Out of the Depths I Cry to You

Author: Martin Luther; Gracia Grindal Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 7-13 Scripture: Psalm 130 Used With Tune: AUS TIEFER NOT