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Lift up your heads, you mighty gates

Author: Georg Weissel, 1590-1635; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.6.6 Appears in 273 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 Lift up your heads, you mighty gates, behold, the King of glory waits! The King of kings is drawing near, the Saviour of the world is here; salvation and new life he brings, therefore the earth is glad and sings: Our Maker, we sing praise, mighty in all your ways. 2 The Lord is just, a helper tried, with mercy ever at his side; his kingly crown is holiness, his scepter, pity in distress; the end of all our woes he brings, therefore the earth is glad and sings: Our Saviour, we now raise our grateful hymns of praise. 3 How blest the land, the city blest, where Christ the ruler is confessed! What happy hearts and happy homes to whom this king in triumph comes! The cloudless sun of joy he is, Who brings us pure delight and bliss. Our Comforter, we raise our grateful hymns of praise. 4 Lift up the gates; lift up your heart, make it a temple set apart from earthly use for heaven's employ, adorned with prayer and love and joy: so shall your sovereign enter in, and new and nobler life begin. To you, O God, be praise for word, and deed, and grace. 5 Redeemer, come! With me abide, my heart to you I open wide. Let me your inner presence feel, your grace and love in me reveal; your Holy Spirit guide us on until our glorious goal is won. Eternal praise and fame we offer to your name. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Advent; Christ tne King Sunday; City; Inner Peace; Jesus Christ Kingship; Joy; New Life in Christ; Personal Response to Jesus; Redemption Used With Tune: MACH NOCH DIE TÜR

At the Name of Jesus

Author: Caroline M. Noel, 1817-1877 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 253 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:5-7 Lyrics: 1 At the Name of Jesus Ev'ry knee shall bow, Ev'ry tongue confess Him King of glory now. It is God's good pleasure We should call Him Lord, Who from the beginning Was the mighty Word. 2 At His voice creation Sprang at once to sight, All the angel faces, All the hosts of light, Thrones and Dominations, Stars upon their way, All the heav'nly orders In their great array. 3 Humbled for a season, To receive a Name From the lips of sinners Unto whom He came, Faithfully He bore it Spotless to the last; Brought it back victorious When from death He passed. 4 In your hearts enthrone Him; There let Him subdue All that is not holy, All that is not true. Crown Him as your Captain In temptation's hour; Let His will enfold you In its light and pow'r. 5 Christians, this Lord Jesus Shall return again On the clouds of glory, O'er the earth to reign. Love and faithful service We His people vow, And our hearts confess Him King of glory now. Topics: The Celebration of the Gospel Story Christ the King; Christian Year Advent (Second Coming); Christian Year Christ the King; Jesus Christ Agent of Creation; Holy name of Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ King; Reign of Jesus Christ; Praise; Redemption; Service; Submission/Surrender; Temptation/Trial Used With Tune: KING'S WESTON

Jesu, my Lord, I thee adore

Author: Henry Collins (1827-1919) Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 217 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 First Line: Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all Lyrics: 1 Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all, hear me, blest Saviour, when I call; hear me, and from thy dwelling-place pour down the riches of thy grace: Refrain: Jesu, my Lord, I thee adore, O make me love thee more and more. 2 Jesu, too late I thee have sought, how can I love thee as I ought? And how extol thy matchless fame, the glorious beauty of thy name? [Refrain] 3 Jesu, what didst thou find in me, that thou hast dealt so lovingly? How great the joy that thou hast brought, so far exceeding hope or thought! [Refrain] 4 Jesu, of thee shall be my song, to thee my heart and soul belong; all that I am or have is thine, and thou, sweet Saviour, thou art mine. [Refrain] Topics: Adoration; Commitment; Devotion; Jesus Name; Love for God; Self-offering Used With Tune: STELLA

We give immortal praise

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 203 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 We give immortal praise to God the Father's love for all our comforts here, and better hopes above: he sent his own eternal Son, to die for sins that we had done. 2 To God the Son belongs immortal glory too, who bought us with his blood from everlasting woe: and now he lives, and now he reigns, and sees the fruit of all his pains. 3 To God the Spirit's name immortal worship give, whose new-creating power makes the dead sinner live: his work completes the great design, and fills the soul with joy divine. 4 To you, almighty God, be endless honours done, the undivided Three, and the mysterious One: where reason fails with all her powers, there faith prevails, and love adores. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Providence; Trinity Sunday Used With Tune: CROFT'S 136TH

God of mercy, God of grace

Author: Henry Francis Lyte, 1793-1847 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 198 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 God of mercy, God of grace, show the brightness of your face; shine upon us, Saviour, shine, fill your church with light divine; and your saving health extend unto earth's remotest end. 2 Let the people praise you, Lord! be by all that live adored; let the nations shout and sing glory to their Saviour king; at your feet their tribute pay, and your holy will obey. 3 Let the people praise you, Lord! earth shall then its fruits afford; God to us his blessing give, we to God devoted live: all below, and all above, one in joy and light and love. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Dedication of Church Buildgin; God's Love to Us; Healing; Light; Ministry of God's People; Mission/Sending; Our Love to God; People of God; Proclamation: Witness; Providence; Salvation; Thanksgiving; Worship Gathering Used With Tune: HEATHLANDS

Come Away to the Skies

Meter: 6.6.9 D Appears in 173 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 Come away to the skies, my beloved, arise and rejoice in the day thou wast born. On this festival day, come exulting away, and with singing to Zion return. 2 Now with singing and praise, let us spend all the days, by our heavenly Father bestowed, while his grace we receive from his bounty, and live to the honour and glory of God. 3 For the glory we were first created to share, both the nature and kingdom divine! Now created again that our lives may remain, throughout time and eternity thine. 4 We with thanks do approve the design of that love which hath joined us to Jesus' name; so united in heart, let us nevermore part, till we meet at the feast of the Lamb. 5 Hallelujah we sing, to the heaven's high King, and his rapturous praises repeat: to the Lamb that was slain, hallelujah again, sing, all heaven, and fall at his feet. Topics: Easter (season) Used With Tune: MIDDLEBURY Text Sources: The Southern Harmony, New Haven, 1835, alt.

The Fount of Grace

Appears in 173 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:5 First Line: Christ, of all my hopes the Ground Refrain First Line: Fount of grace, o'erflowing grace Used With Tune: [Christ, of all my hopes the Ground]

Wonderful Grace of Jesus

Author: Haldor Lillenas Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.12 with refrain Appears in 104 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Refrain First Line: Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus Lyrics: 1 Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin; how shall my tongue describe it, where shall its praise begin? Taking away my burden, setting my spirit free, for the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me. Refrain: Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus, deeper than the mighty rolling sea, higher than the mountain, sparkling like a fountain, all sufficient grace for even me; broader than the scope of my transgressions, sing it! greater far than all my sin and shame. O magnify the precious name of Jesus, praise his name! 2 Wonderful grace of Jesus, reaching to all the lost, by it I have been pardoned, saved to the uttermost. Chains have been torn asunder, giving me liberty, for the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me. [Refrain] 3 Wonderful grace of Jesus, reaching the most reviled, by its transforming power making me God’s dear child, purchasing peace and heaven for all eternity, for the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me. [Refrain] Topics: Atonement; Confessing Faith; Grace; Liberation; Name of Jesus; Salvation Used With Tune: WONDERFUL GRACE Text Sources: Northfield Hymnal No. 3, 1918

And Now, O Father, Mindful of the Love

Author: William Bright (1824-1901) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 92 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 And now, O Father, mindful of the love that bought us, once for all, on Calvary's tree, and having with us him that pleads above, we here present, we here spread forth to thee that only offering perfect in thine eyes, the one true, pure, immortal sacrifice. 2 Look, Father, look on his anointed face, and only look on us as found in him; look not on our misusings of thy grace, our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim. For lo! Between our sins and their reward we set the passion of thy Son our Lord. 3 And then for those, our dearest and our best, by this prevailing presence we appeal: O fold them closer to thy mercy's breast; O do thine utmost for their souls' true weal; from tainting mischief keep them pure and clear, and crown thy gifts with strength to persevere. 4 And so we come: O draw us to thy feet, most patient Saviour, who canst love us still; and by this food, so awesome and so sweet, deliver us from every touch of ill. In thine own service make us glad and free, and grant us never more to part with thee. Topics: Eucharist; Eucharist; Forgiveness; Love; Prayer; Sunday of the Passion Used With Tune: UNDE ET MEMORES

What shall I do my God to love

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 60 hymnals Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 Lyrics: 1 What shall I do my God to love, my loving God to praise? the length, and breadth, and height to prove, and depth of sovereign grace? 2 Your sovereign grace to all extends, immense and unconfined; from age to age it never ends, to reach all humankind. 3 Throughout the world its breadth is known, wide as infinity; so wide it never passed by one, or it had passed by me. 4 My trespass was grown up to heav'n; but far above the skies, in Christ abundantly forgiv'n, I see your mercies rise. 5 The depth of all-redeeming love, what angel tongue can tell? O may I to the utmost prove the gift unspeakable. 6 Come quickly, gracious Lord, and take possession of your own; my longing heart be pleased to make your everlasting throne. Topics: Forgiveness; Grace; Holiness; Longing for God; Mercy of God; Proclamation: Witness; Providence; Saints Days and Holy Days Conversion of St Paul Used With Tune: WILTSHIRE