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O God, Our Creator, You Work Every Day

Author: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:3-7 Lyrics: O God, our Creator, you work every day: A potter, you form us, your people, like clay. A shepherd, you guide us and seek out the lost. A parent, you love us, not counting the cost. Christ Jesus, how rough were your hard-working hands! You labored among us; our God understands! Bless workers who struggle, their families to feed; Bless those who face hardship, oppression, or greed. Lord, some live among us who need constant care, Whose work is to make us more humbly aware. They teach us the best of your lessons, by far: It’s not what we do, Lord, you love who we are! We’re baptized! Your Spirit gives new work to do, That we, through our serving, may glorify you. Each person’s vocation, each calling, has worth As you send us out to bring Christ’s love on earth. Topics: Call/Vocation; Grace of God; Nation/National Holidays Used With Tune: ST. DENIO

Come, You Sinners, Poor and Needy

Author: Joseph Hart, 1712-1768 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 1,480 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15 Refrain First Line: I will arise and go to Jesus Topics: Lent (season); Penitence Used With Tune: RESTORATION

There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

Author: Frederick William Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 917 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15 Topics: Lent (season); Penitence Used With Tune: GOTT WILL'S MACHEN

Softly and tenderly

Author: William J. Thompson, 1847-1909 Meter: 11.7.11.7 with refrain Appears in 910 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:3-7 First Line: Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Lyrics: 1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me: patiently Jesus is waiting and watching, watching for you and for me. Refrain: "Come home, come home, ye who are weary, come home"; earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, "Come home!" 2 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading, pleading for you and for me? Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, mercies for you and for me? [Refrain] 3 Oh for the wonderful love he has promised, promised for you and for me; though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, pardon for you and for me. [Refrain] Topics: Evangelism; Forgiveness / Pardon; Invitation; Jesus Christ Call of; Mercy; One Life in Christ Discipleship; Promise Used With Tune: THOMPSON

"Salvation"

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 840 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:7 First Line: Salvation!--oh, the joyful sound! Lyrics: 1 Salvation!--oh, the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sovereign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears. 2 Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell's dark door we lay;-- But we arise by grace divine, To see a heavenly day. 3 Salvation!--let the echo fly The spacious earth around; While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound. 4 Salvation! O thou bleeding Lamb! To thee the praise belongs: Salvation shall inspire our hearts, And dwell upon our tongues. Topics: Access to God; Atonement Provided Used With Tune: ROGET

All people that on earth do dwell

Author: William Kethe, d. 1594 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 739 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:1-7 Topics: The Nature and Mystery of God The Holy Trinity Used With Tune: OLD 100TH

Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet

Author: William Cowper (1731-1800) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 518 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, where'er thy people meet, there they behold thy mercy-seat; where'er they seek thee, thou art found, and every place is hallowed ground. 2 For thou, within no walls confined, inhabitest the humble mind; such ever bring you where they come, and going, take thee to their home. 3 Here may we prove the power of prayer to strengthen faith and sweeten care, to teach our faint desires to rise, and bring all heaven before our eyes. 4 Lord, we are few, but thou art near; nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear; O rend the heavens, come quickly down, and make a thousand hearts thine own! Topics: Christian Life; Church; Gathering of the Community Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

Praise him, praise him! Tell of his excellent greatness

Author: Frances J Van Alstyne 1820-1915 Appears in 426 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:5-7 First Line: Praise him, praise him! Jesus our blessed Redeemer! Topics: The Son His Name and Praise Used With Tune: LUDGROVE

Once in Royal David's City

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 418 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15 Lyrics: 1 Once in royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child. 2 He came down to earth from heaven, who is God and Lord of all, and his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall. With the poor and mean and lowly lived on earth our Saviour holy. 3 Not in that poor lowly stable, with the oxen standing by, we shall see him, but in heaven, set at God's right hand on high, when, like stars, his children crowned all in white shall gather round. Topics: Christmas; Epiphany Used With Tune: IRBY

"Why will ye die!"

Author: Josiah Hopkins Appears in 393 hymnals Scripture: Luke 15:7 First Line: Oh, turn ye, oh, turn ye, for why will ye die Lyrics: 1 Oh, turn ye, oh, turn ye, for why will ye die, When God in great mercy is coming so nigh? Now Jesus invites you, the Spirit says, Come, And angels are waiting to welcome you home. 2 And now Christ is ready your souls to receive, Oh, how can you question, if you will believe? If sin is your burden, why will you not come? 'Tis you he bids welcome; he bids you come home. Topics: Access to God; Delay Used With Tune: EXPOSTULATION