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Take Time To Be Holy

Author: W. D. Longstaff Appears in 345 hymnals Topics: Christian Education Used With Tune: [Take time to be holy] (Stebbins)

Author: Herbert Frederick Brokering Meter: 4.5.7 D with refrain Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Teaching/Education Refrain First Line: Sing to the Lord a new song! Scripture: Psalm 96:1 Used With Tune: EARTH AND ALL STARS

By All Your Saints Still Striving

Author: Jerry D. Godwin; Horatio Nelson, 1823-1913 Appears in 119 hymnals Topics: Education Scripture: Daniel 12 Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH

May the Mind of Christ, My Savior

Author: Kate B. Wilkinson, 1859-1928 Meter: 8.7.8.5 Appears in 72 hymnals Topics: Education Used With Tune: ST. LEONARDS

How shall the young direct their way?

Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Christian Education Lyrics: 1 How shall the young direct their way? What light shall be their perfect guide? Thy Word, O Lord, will safely lead, If in its wisdom they confide. Sincerely I have sought thee, Lord, O let me not from thee depart; To know thy will and keep from sin Thy Word I cherish in my heart. 2 O blessed Lord, teach me thy law, Thy righteous judgments I declare; Thy testimonies make me glad, For they are wealth beyond compare. Upon thy precepts and thy ways My heart will meditate with awe; Thy Word shall be my chief delight, And I will not forget thy law. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 119:9-16 Used With Tune: DUANE STREET Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912

Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice

Author: Henriette Louise von Hayn; Frederick W. Foster Meter: 7.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Christian Education and Nurture Lyrics: 1 Jesus makes my heart rejoice, I’m his sheep, and know his voice; he’s a Shepherd, kind and gracious, And his pastures are delicious; constant love to me he shows, yea, my very name he knows. 2 Trusting his mild staff always, I go in and out in peace; he will feed me with treasure of his grace in richest measure; when athirst to him I cry, Living water he’ll supply. 3 Should not I for gladness leap, led by Jesus as his sheep? For when these blessed days are over to the arms of my dear Savior I shall be conveyed to rest. Amen, yea, my lot is blessed. Scripture: Psalm 23 Used With Tune: HAYN

Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain

Author: Ludwig Helmbold, 1532-98; Matthias Loy, 1828-1915 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Christian Home and Education; Christian Education Lyrics: 1 Lord, help us ever to retain The Catechism's doctrine plain As Luther taught the Word of truth In simple style to tender youth. 2 Help us Your holy Law to learn, To mourn our sin and from it turn In faith to You and to Your Son And Holy Spirit, Three in One. 3 Hear us, dear Father, when we pray For needed help from day to day That as Your children we may live, Whom You baptized and so received. 4 Lord, when we fall or go astray, Absolve and lift us up, we pray; And through the Sacrament increase Our faith till we depart in peace. Scripture: Psalm 119:9-12 Used With Tune: HERR JESU CHRIST, MEINS

God of Concrete, God of Steel

Author: Richard G. Jones Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Education Christian Lyrics: 1 God of concrete, God of steel, God of piston and of wheel, God of pylon, God of steam, God of girder and of beam, God of atom, God of mine, All the world of pow'r is Thine! 2 Lord of cable, Lord of rail, Lord of motorway and mail, Lord of rocket, Lord of flight, Lord of soaring satellite, Lord of lightning's livid line, All the world of speed is Thine! 3 Lord of science, Lord of art, God of map and graph and chart, Lord of physics and research, Word of Bible, faith of Church, Lord of sequence and design, All the world of truth is Thine! 4 God whose glory fills the earth, Gave the universe its birth, Loosed the Christ with Easter's might, Saves the world from evil's blight, Claims mankind by grace divine, All the world of love is Thine! Amen. Scripture: Psalm 24:1 Used With Tune: NEW HORIZONS

Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 301 hymnals Topics: Education; Education Lyrics: 1 Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ, our head and cornerstone, chosen of the Lord and precious, binding all the church in one; holy Zion's help forever and our confidence alone. 2 To this temple, where we call you, come, O Lord of hosts, and stay; come with all your loving-kindness, hear your people as they pray; and your fullest benediction shed within these walls today. 3 Here bestow on all your servants what they seek from you to gain; what they gain from you, forever with the blessed to retain; and hereafter in your glory evermore with you to reign. 4 Praise and honor to the Father, praise and honor to the Son, praise and honor to the Spirit, ever three and ever one: one in might and one in glory while unending ages run! Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY Text Sources: Latin hymn, c. 7th cent

Blessing and Honor and Glory and Power

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 83 hymnals Topics: Other Observances Christian Education Lyrics: 1 Blessing and honor and glory and power, Wisdom and riches and strength evermore, Give we to him who our battle has won, Whose are the kingdom, the crown, and the throne. 2 Hear through the heavens the sound of his name, While rings the earth with his glory and fame; Ocean and mountain, stream, forest, and flower Echo His praises and tell of his power. 3 Ever ascending the song and the prayer; Ever descending the love that we share; Blessing and honor and glory and praise— This is the theme of the hymns that we raise. 4 Give we the glory and praise to the Lamb; Take we the robe and the harp and the palm; Sing we the song of the Lamb that was slain, Dying in weakness, but rising to reign. Amen. Scripture: Revelation 5:13 Used With Tune: O QUANTA QUALIA