Sunday's Hymn

We sang only a couple of hymns out of the hymnal this morning and one of them was an obscure Mennonite hymnal only song that I can’t find online, so I’m stuck repeating a hymn I posted only a month ago. This time I’ll post the words as we sang them this morning rather than how they appeared in the Olney Hymnal.

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.

—-John Newton

If you’d like, you hear my church choir singing Amazing Grace when we sang it last month. You’ll be downloading the mp3 if you click that link. (The choir sang this hymn in this arrangement at my husband’s memorial service, too.)

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Sixth Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
  
• Christ is Made the Sure Foundation at Hiraeth
  
• Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners at Seasoning of the Heart
• Jesus Lives and So Shall I at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 26, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• With Joy We Meditate the Grace at joythruChrist
• Come, Ye Weary, Heavy Laden at Tulipgirl
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Sunday's Hymn

Here a hymn I sang in church this morning:

Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

Savior, like a shepherd lead us, much we need Thy tender care;
In Thy pleasant pastures feed us, for our use Thy folds prepare.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.

We are Thine, Thou dost befriend us, be the guardian of our way;
Keep Thy flock, from sin defend us, seek us when we go astray.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Hear, O hear us when we pray.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Hear, O hear us when we pray.

Thou hast promised to receive us, poor and sinful though we be;
Thou hast mercy to relieve us, grace to cleanse and power to free.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! We will early turn to Thee.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! We will early turn to Thee.

Early let us seek Thy favor, early let us do Thy will;
Blessèd Lord and only Savior, with Thy love our bosoms fill.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast loved us, love us still.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast loved us, love us still.

—Dorothy Thrupp

Hear it on flugelhorn and piano:

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Fifth Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
  
• Here is Love at Hiraeth
  
• Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us at Seasoning of the Heart
• The God of Abraham Praise at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 25, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• From Deep Distress and Troubled Thoughts at joythruChrist
• Summer Suns are Glowing at The Happy Wonderer
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Sunday's Hymn

Ever since I said that for the Sunday hymn I’d be posting a hymn I sang in church that day, they haven’t been making it easy for me. Today we sang several obscurish songs that were found in our hymnal but were not very easy to find online so that I could copy and paste the words. But I did find one, a paraphrase of Psalm 84 by Arlo D. Duba:

How Lovely, Lord, How Lovely (Psalm 84)

How lovely, Lord, how lovely is your abiding place.
My soul is longing, fainting to feast upon your grace.
The sparrow finds a shelter, a place to build her nest;
and so your temple calls us within its walls to rest.

In your blest courts to worship, O God, a single day
is better than a thousand if I from you should stray.
I’d rather keep the entrance and claim you as my Lord
than revel in the riches the ways of sin afford.

A sun and shield forever are you, O Lord Most High;
you shower us with blessings; no good will you deny.
The saints, your grace receiving, from strength to strength shall go,
and from their life shall rivers of blessing overflow.

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• The Fourth Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
  
• Crown Him with Many Crowns at Hiraeth (Kim has a brand new grandson; he be the first.)
  
• Christ is Made the Sure Foundation at Seasoning of the Heart
• Great is Thy Faithfulness at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 24, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Come, Great Spirit, Come at Conjubilant With Song
• Blest Are the Pure, Whose Hearts Are Clean at joythruChrist
• Happy the Home When God Is There at The Happy Wonderer
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.