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O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart's Desire

Author: John Chandler Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 57 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:27 Lyrics: 1. O Christ, our hope, our heart's desire, Redemption's only spring, Creator of the world art Thou, Its Savior and its King. 2. How vast the mercy and the love Which laid our sins on Thee; And led Thee to a cruel death To set Thy people free. 3. But now the bonds of death are burst, The ransom has been paid; And Thou are on Thy Father's throne, In glorious robes arrayed. 4. O Christ, be Thou our lasting joy, Our ever great reward; Our only glory may it be To glory in the Lord! Used With Tune: MANOAH Text Sources: Latin Hymn, c. 8th Century

Christ is alive! Let Christians sing

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 55 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:21-29 Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring; Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift and war, where colour, scorn or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love, and praise. Topics: Assurance; Atonement; Celebration of Faith; Cross; Evil; Jesus Christ Humanity; Jesus Christ Kingship; Jesus Christ Priesthood and Intercession; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Justice; Resurrection Used With Tune: DUNEDIN

In Christ Alone

Author: Keith Getty; Stuart Townend Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 39 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:15-17 First Line: In Christ alone my hope is found Topics: Church Year Easter/Season of Easter; Powers of Darkness; Humility; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Confidence in; Jesus Christ Hope; Jesus Christ Solid Rock; Praise of Christ; Victory; Elements of Worship Profession of Faith Used With Tune: IN CHRIST ALONE

O Christ, the healer, we have come

Author: Frederick Pratt Green (1903-2000) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 38 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:21-23 Lyrics: 1 O Christ, the healer, we have come to pray for health, to plead for friends. How can we fail to be restored, when reached by love that never ends? 2 From every ailment flesh endures our bodies clamour to be freed; yet in our hearts we would confess that wholeness is our deepest need. 3 How strong, O Lord, are our desires, how weak our knowledge of ourselves! Release in us those healing truths unconscious pride resists or shelves. 4 In conflicts that destroy our health we diagnose the world's disease; our common life declares our ills: is there no cure, O Christ, for these? 5 Grant that we all, made one in faith, in your community may find the wholeness that, enriching us, shall reach the whole of humankind. Topics: The Church Celebrates; The Church Celebrates Wholeness and Healing; Suffering; Unity of Humanity Used With Tune: ANGELUS

Christ, We Do All Adore Thee

Author: Theodore Baker Meter: Irregular Appears in 35 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20 Lyrics: Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever. Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever, for on the holy cross hast thou the world from sin redeemed. Christ, we do all adore thee, and we do praise thee forever. Christ, we do all adore thee. Topics: Jesus Christ Death of; Atonement; Heritage Before 1500; Jesus Christ Death of; Reign of Christ Used With Tune: ADORE THEE Text Sources: “Adoremus te Christe” (present-day France), 9th c.; trans. Theodore Baker (USA), The Seven Last Words of Christ, 1899

My heart is full of Christ, and longs

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 27 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:19 Topics: Growth in Grace and Holiness Used With Tune: WORSLEY

He wants not friends that hath thy love

Author: Richard Baxter, 1615-1691 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 26 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:18 Lyrics: 1 He wants not friends that hath thy love, and may converse and walk with thee, and with thy saints here and above, with whom for ever I must be. 2 In the blest fellowship of saints is wisdom, safety, and delight; and when my heart declines and faints, it’s raisèd by their heat and light. 3 As for my friends, they are not lost; the several vessels of thy fleet, though parted now, by tempests tossed, shall safely in the haven meet. 4 Still we are centred all in thee, members, though distant, of one Head; in the same family we be, by the same faith and spirit led. 5 Before thy throne we daily meet as joint-petitioners to thee; in spirit we each other greet, and shall again each other see. 6 The heavenly hosts, world without end, shall be my company above; and thou, my best and surest Friend, who shall divide me from thy love? Used With Tune: UFFINGHAM

Go to the world! Go into all the earth

Author: Sylvia G. Dunstan (1955-1993) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:19-20 Topics: The Holy Spirit The Church Celebrates - Ordination; Mission Used With Tune: ENGELBERG

Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire

Author: John Chandler, 1806-1876 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:27 Lyrics: 1 Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire, thy work of grace we sing; Redeemer of the world art thou, its Maker and its King. 2 How vast the mercy and the love which laid our sins on thee, and led thee to a cruel death, to set thy people free! 3 But now the bonds of death are burst, the ransom has been paid; and thou art on thy Father's throne, in glorious robes arrayed. 4 O may thy mighty love prevail our sinful souls to spare; O may we stand around thy throne, and see thy glory there. 5 Jesu, our only joy be thou, as thou our prize wilt be; in thee be all our glory now and through eternity. 6 All praise to thee who art gone up triumphantly to heaven; all praise to God the Father's name, and Holy Ghost be given. Topics: Ascension Used With Tune: METZLER'S REDHEAD NO. 66 Text Sources: Latin, c. 8th century

Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness

Author: Rusty Edwards (1955-) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 19 hymnals Scripture: Colossians 1:11-20 Lyrics: 1 Praise the one who break the darkness with a liberating light. Praise the one who frees the prisoners, turning blindness into sight. Praise the one who preached the gospel, healing every dread disease, calming storms and feeding thousands with the very bread of peace. 2 Praise the one who blessed the children with a strong yet gentle word. Praise the one who drove out demons with a piercing two-edged sword. Praise the one who brings cool water to the desert's burning sand. From this well comes living water quenching thirst in every land. 3 Praise the one true love incarnate: Christ who suffered in our place. Jesus died and rose for many that we may know God by grace. Let us sing for joy and gladness, seeing what our God has done. Praise the one redeeming glory; praise the One who makes us one. Topics: Epiphany (season); Healing; Jesus' Life and Ministry; Praise of God; Water Used With Tune: NETTLETON