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You thirsty ones

Author: Andrew Donaldson, 1951- Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: You thirsty ones! come to the spring! Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-11 Used With Tune: BELMONT

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 719 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Lyrics: 1 I'm not ashamed to own my Lord, or to defend his cause, maintain the glory of his cross, and honour all his laws. 2 Jesus, my Lord! I know his name, his name is all my boast; nor will he put my soul to shame, nor let my hope be lost. 3 I know that safe with him remains, protected by his power, what I've committed to his trust till the decisive hour. 4 Then will he own his servant's name, before his Father's face, and in the new Jerusalem appoint my soul a place. Scripture: Matthew 25:21 Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases

Eat this bread

Author: Robert J. Batastini, 1942-; Taizé Community (France) Meter: 6.9.6.9 Appears in 36 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Eat this bread, drink this cup Scripture: John 6:35 Used With Tune: EAT THIS BREAD

Creator God, creating still

Author: Jane Parker Huber, 1926- Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Scripture: Genesis 1:2 Used With Tune: THIS ENDRYS NIGHT

When we are living

Author: Anonymous; Elise S. Eslinger, 1942-; Roberto Escamilla, 1931-; George Lockwood, 1946- Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 36 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: When we are living, it is in Christ Jesus (Pues si vivimos para Él vivimos) Scripture: Romans 12:1-2 Used With Tune: SOMOS DEL SEÑOR

Let every Christian Pray

Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903- Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases 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Holy Spirit, come! 2 The Spirit brought to birth the church of Christ on earth to seek and save the lost: God never has withdrawn, since that tremendous dawn, the gifts at Pentecost. 3 Only the Spirit's power can fit us for this hour, come, Holy Spirit, come! Unite, instruct, inspire and fill us with your fire: come, Holy Spirit, come! Scripture: Acts 2:1-21 Used With Tune: LUDGATE

Christians, awake

Author: John Byrom, 1692-1763 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 197 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Christians, awake! salute the happy morn Lyrics: 1 Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, whereon the Saviour of the world was born; rise to adore the mystery of love which hosts of angels chanted from above; with them the joyful tidings first begun of God Incarnate and the virgin's son. 2 Then to the watchful shepherds it was told, who heard the angel herald's voice, "Behold, I bring good tidings of a saviour's birth to you and all the nations on the earth; God has this day fulfilled the promised word: this day is born a saviour, Christ the Lord." 3 Then went the shepherds straight to Bethlehem to see the wonder that was told to them, and found, with Joseph and the blessed maid, her son, the Saviour, in a manger laid; joyful, the wondrous story they proclaim, the first apostles of his infant fame. 4 Oh may we keep and ponder in our mind God's wondrous love in saving humankind; trace we the babe, who has retrieved our loss, from his poor manger to his bitter cross; saved by his love, unceasing we shall sing eternal praise to heaven's almighty King. Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE

Give me the faith

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases 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 Saviour 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: Psalm 69:9 Used With Tune: COLCHESTER

Come, holy spirit (Veni Sancte Spiritus)

Author: Jacques Berthier 1923-1994s Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: Come, Holy Spirit; from heaven shine forth Refrain First Line: Veni Sancte Spiritus Used With Tune: VENI SANCTE SPIRITUS Text Sources: Latin, anonymous

Sing a new song unto the Lord

Author: Daniel L. Schutte Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases First Line: For God's people dance for joy Scripture: Job 19:25 Used With Tune: SING A NEW SONG