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All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

Author: Edward Perronet Meter: 8.6.8 with refrain Appears in 3,614 hymnals Topics: Calling and Response First Line: All hail the power of Jesus' name! Lyrics: 1 All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall; bring forth the royal diadem, [Refrain:] and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him Lord of all. 2 O seed of Israel's chosen race now ransomed from the fall, hail him who saves you by his grace [Refrain] 3 Crown him, you martyrs of your God, who from his altar call: praise him whose way of pain you trod, [Refrain] 4 Let every tongue and every tribe, responsive to the call, to him all majesty ascribe, [Refrain] 5 O that, with all the sacred throng, we at his feet may fall; join in the everlasting song, [Refrain] Used With Tune: MILES LANE

Praise we now the word of grace

Author: Sidney Newman Sedgwick (1872-1941) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Gospel Call Lyrics: 1 Praise we now the word of grace; may our hearts its truth embrace: from its pages may we hear Christ our teacher, speaking clear. 2 May the gospel of the Lord everywhere be spread abroad, that the world around may own Christ as King, and Christ alone. Scripture: Matthew 7:28-29 Used With Tune: SAVANNAH

Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: The Nature of the Church Called to God's Mission First Line: Give me, the faith which can remove Lyrics: 1. Give me the faith which can remove and sink the mountain to a plain; give me the childlike praying love, which longs to build thy house again; thy love, let it my heart o'er-power, and all my simple soul devour. 2. I would the precious time redeem, and longer live for this alone, to spend and to be spent for them who have not yet my Savior known; fully on these my mission prove, and only breathe, to breathe thy love. 3. My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord, into thy blessed hands receive; and let me live to preach thy word, and let me to thy glory live; my every sacred moment spend in publishing the sinner's Friend. 4. Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart with boundless charity divine, so shall I all my strength exert, and love them with a zeal like thine, and lead them to thy open side, the sheep for whom the Shepherd died. Scripture: Mark 11:20-25 Used With Tune: CAREY'S (SURREY)

For Your Gift of God the Spirit

Author: Margaret Clarkson Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Elements of Worship Opening of Worship: Called And Gathered Lyrics: 1 For your gift of God the Spirit, power to make our lives anew, pledge of life and hope of glory, Savior, we would worship you. Crowning gift of resurrection sent from your ascended throne, fullness of the very Godhead, come to make your life our own. 2 He who in creation's dawning brooded on the lifeless deep, still across our nature's darkness moves to wake our souls from sleep, moves to stir, to draw, to quicken, thrusts us through with sense of sin; brings to birth and seals and fills us– saving Advocate within. 3 He, himself the living Author, wakes to life the sacred Word, reads with us its holy pages and reveals our risen Lord. He it is who works within us teaching rebel hearts to pray, he whose holy intercessions rise for us both night and day. 4 He, the mighty God, indwells us; his to strengthen, help, empower; his to overcome the tempter, ours to call in danger's hour. In his strength we dare to battle all the raging hosts of sin, and by him alone we conquer foes without and foes within. 5 Father, grant your Holy Spirit in our hearts may rule today, grieved not, quenched not, but unhindered, work in us his sovereign way. Fill us with your holy fullness, God the Father, Spirit, Son; in us, through us, then forever, shall your perfect will be done. Scripture: Genesis 1:2 Used With Tune: FOR YOUR GIFT

May the God of Hope (Dios de la esperanza)

Author: Alvin Schutmaat, 1921-1988 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Call/Calling First Line: May the God of hope go with us every day (¡Dios de la esperanza, danos gozo y paz!) Lyrics: ENGLISH - May the God of hope go with us every day, filling all our lives with love and joy and peace. May the God of justice speed us on our way, bringing light and hope to every land and race. Praying, let us work for peace, singing, share our joy with all, working for a world that's new, faithful when we hear Christ's call. --- SPANISH - ¡Dios de la esperanza, danos gozo y paz! Al mundo en crisis, habla tu verdad. Dios de la justicia, mándanos tu luz, luz y esperanza en la oscuridad. Oremos por la paz, cantemos de tu amor. Luchemos por la paz, fieles a ti, Señor. Scripture: Jeremiah 21:12 Used With Tune: ARGENTINA

Christ Is Our Cornerstone

Author: John Chandler (1806-1876) Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 191 hymnals Topics: Call and Vocation Lyrics: 1 Christ is our cornerstone on him alone we build; with his true saints alone the courts of heaven are filled. On his great love our hopes we place of present grace and joys above. 2 O then, with hymns of praise these hallowed courts shall ring. Our voices we will raise the Three-in-One to sing, and thus proclaim in joyful song, both loud and long, that glorious name. 3 Here, gracious God, do thou for evermore draw nigh; accept each faithful vow, and mark each suppliant sigh. In copious shower on all who pray, each holy day thy blessings pour. 4 Here may we gain from heaven the grace which we implore; and may that grace, once given, be with us evermore, until that day when all the blest to endless rest are called away. Scripture: Psalm 86 Used With Tune: HAREWOOD Text Sources: Latin (7th cent.)