tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86443927181146640342024-02-20T15:52:30.554-05:00starke Kirchenliederdedicated
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hymnsamelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-73195026785240246332022-07-17T23:21:00.000-04:002022-07-17T23:21:39.047-04:00<p> I had the privilege of preaching at Grace Lutheran Church in Auburn, Michigan this morning. I preached on the Gospel lesson, Luke 10:38-42, Jesus in the home of Mary and Martha. For the sermon hymn today we sang, "A Hearing Heart." "A Hearing Heart" was written at the request of the Valparaiso Liturgical Institute for their 2014 conference. I was to write a text based on the Mary/Martha account and Amanda Husberg would compose the tune, which she named HEARING HEART. At the conference we shared text and tune and the hymn was sung at two services of the conference. I think it was a very good pairing.</p><div style="text-align: left;">1. </div><div style="text-align: left;">A hearing heart, </div><div style="text-align: left;">a hearing heart--</div><div style="text-align: left;">this grant, dear Lord, I pray--</div><div style="text-align: left;">that listens to Your Word at dawn,</div><div style="text-align: left;">at noon and end of day,</div><div style="text-align: left;">at noon and end of day.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart</div><div>that welcomes You as guest,</div><div>a heart not soured by fret or care</div><div>instead by You is blessed,</div><div>instead by You is blessed.</div><div>3.</div><div><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart,</div></div><div>attentive at Your feet,</div><div>well-nourished by each living word:</div><div>pure milk, like honey sweet,</div><div>pure milk, like honey sweet.</div><div>4.</div><div><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart,</div></div><div>through Word and liturgy,</div><div>believes Your cross and empty tomb,</div><div>which set the captive free,</div><div>which set the captive free.</div><div>5.</div><div><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart</div></div><div>receives Your gifts divine:</div><div>rich blessings promised in Your Word</div><div>with water, bread, and wine,</div><div>with water, bread, and wine.</div><div>6.</div><div><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart,</div></div><div>when with Your heart is meshed,</div><div>beats strong with mercy, truth, and grace,</div><div>enlivened and refreshed,</div><div>enlivened and refreshed.</div><div>7.</div><div><div>A hearing heart, </div><div>a hearing heart--</div></div><div>this grant, dear Lord, I pray!</div><div>Bring forth the fruits of faith in me,</div><div>in all I do and say,</div><div>in all I do and say.</div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">.</span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style></p>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-16726187442110149322020-05-11T20:57:00.001-04:002020-05-11T20:58:52.142-04:00Catch the Vision! Share the Glory!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It seems most appropriate that on the day when we commemorate Cyril and Methodius, missionaries to the Slavs, that we meditate on this fine hymn by our late hymn writer, Jaroslav Vajda (1919-2008), who was of Slavic background. Vajda writes, "The hymn emphasizes the proving of the church's confession of faith by agape and acts of charity, concern for the whole person with Christ the motivator." The tune, VISION, is by noted LC-MS composer, Carl Schalk (b. 1929).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Regrettably, I was unable to find a link to share a recording of this fine hymn.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blessed children, saints, elect of God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Globe-encircling cloud of witnesses:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have heard the Christmas angels,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have seen the Easter sunrise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cried with joy when Christ began his reign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <i>Catch the vision! Share the glory!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Show the captives, tell them: Christ is here!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Universal Body of the Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chosen, called, made just, and glorified:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ours the faith, and ours the triumph,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ours the peace the world is seeking;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who on earth as privileged as we?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Catch the vision! Share the glory!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Show the captives, tell them: Christ is here!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Heirs together of the grace of life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All baptized into the death of Christ:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Born again, in love maturing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the altar free and cheerful,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Caring, winsome family of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Catch the vision! Share the glory!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Show the captives, tell them: Christ is here!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For this time and place have we been born,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gifted by the Spirit, trained, and sent:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the eyes of Jesus seeing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the hands of Jesus helping,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the words of Jesus bringing life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Catch the vision! Share the glory!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> Show the captives, tell them: Christ is here!</i></span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-24193953318474911052020-05-10T13:52:00.002-04:002020-05-10T13:52:37.204-04:00Christ Be My Leader<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Timothy Dudley-Smith is a great, living English hymn writer (b. 1926) who has written hundreds of hymns which are found in hymnals around the world in many languages. His text, <i>"Christ Be My Leader" </i>incorporates words from today's Gospel lesson, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">“I am </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">the way, and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">the truth, and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;"><i>the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." </i>(</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">John 14:6) </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;"> </i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial;">Stanza 1 is Christ as Leader who is the way; stanza 2 is Christ as Teacher who is the truth; stanza 3 is Christ as Savior is the life. It is set to the Irish tune, SLANE. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTBAtLXbjJ8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTBAtLXbjJ8</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbURbXdndk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbURbXdndk</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXzO79Ori8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXzO79Ori8</a> (tune SLANE on violin)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJk-yJJUQrc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJk-yJJUQrc</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christ be my Leader by night as by day;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Safe through the darkness, for He is the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gladly I follow, my future His care;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Darkness is daylight when Jesus is there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christ be my Teacher in age as in youth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drifting or doubting, for He is the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grant me to trust Him; though shifting as sand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doubt cannot daunt me; in Jesus I stand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christ be my Savior in calm as in strife;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death cannot hold me, for He is the life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nor darkness nor doubting nor sin and its stain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can touch my salvation; with Jesus I reign.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-90276321645868737732020-05-07T23:42:00.002-04:002020-05-07T23:43:29.159-04:00Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends<i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The pandemic fears of this COVID-19 time have cast a dark shadow across the joy and peace of the Easter season. Sadly, Christians living in such a society have fallen in step, towing the line that death is the absolute worst thing and to be feared above all else. Are we not celebrating our Lord Jesus Christ's victory, who by His resurrection has conquered death and the grave? Did not St. Paul write, <i>"'</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O death, where is your victory?</span><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-55" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; position: relative;">O death, where is your sting?'</span><span class="text 1Cor-15-56" id="en-ESV-28758" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum hide" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.</span></i><span class="text 1Cor-15-57" id="en-ESV-28759" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="versenum hide" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" </i>(1 Corinthians 15:55-57).</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I find these words of Isaac Watts (1674-1748) to be the necessary splash of cold water in my face.<i> </i>Let us continue to confess with conviction these closing words of the Nicene Creed: <i>"And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life + of the world to come. Amen" </i>The following link is William Billings' (1746-1800) setting of Watts' [alt.] text, stanzas 1, 2, and 6: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw6fNABBsCc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw6fNABBsCc</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why do we mourn departing friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or shake at death's alarms?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To call [us] to His arms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Are we not tending upward too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As fast as time can move?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nor [should] we wish the hours more slow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To keep us from our love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Why should we tremble to convey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their bodies to the tomb?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And left a long perfume.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The graves of all His saints He bless'd,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And soften'd every bed;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where should the dying members rest,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But with the dying Head?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thence He arose, ascending high,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And show'd our feet the way;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the great rising day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then let the last loud trumpet sound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And bid our kindred rise;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Awake, ye nations underground;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ye saints, ascend the skies.</span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-12047640004812042762020-05-06T13:22:00.000-04:002020-05-06T13:22:07.342-04:00As Rebels, Lord, Who Foolishly Have Wandered<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This text is based upon Jesus' <i>Parable of the Prodigal Son </i>(Luke 15:11-32)<i> </i>and was also inspired by an Albrecht Dürer print which depicts the lost son coming to his senses while kneeling in the midst of the filthy pigpen. Prodigal means "extremely wasteful" and describes how the younger son quickly ran through his portion of the inheritance with wild living in a distant land. But the prodigal's loving father was always looking and hoping for his son's return. The father's response to his son's waywardness is one of the most moving portions of Holy Scripture for me. "As Rebels, Lord, Who Foolishly Have Wandered" is published in the "Confession and Absolution" section of <i>Lutheran Service Book</i> (LSB 612). It is paired with the fine tune WELCOME by Jeffrey N. Blersch (b. 1967). Dr. Blersch and Concordia Publishing House released a setting of his tune recently entitled "Welcome" which can be heard at this link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClckJjnO4Nc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClckJjnO4Nc</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Far from Your love—unfed, unclean, unclothed—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dare we recall Your wealth so rashly squandered,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dare hope to glean that bounty which we loathed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Still we return, our contrite words rehearsing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As tears of joy and welcome fill Your eyes.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A feast of love for us You are preparing;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We who were lost, You give an honored place!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here taste again the treasures of My grace.”</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-59610898403950690162020-05-05T11:07:00.003-04:002020-05-05T11:50:23.196-04:00In Paradise, You Shared Your Best<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This beautiful hymn text by Lisa M. Clark (b. 1982) was written in May of 2019 and explores Gospel restoration in terms of honor and shame and tells the salvation story in this way. She writes, "God created us and welcomed us into His presence. But we brought shame upon Him, and we were banished from His presence. Jesus took upon [Himself] our shame, which brought honor back to us. It also brought us back into God's family." The tune and setting by Jonathan Kohrs (b. 1963) is a perfect match for this lovely text. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwOrPwscbU&list=PLTPkKKi0RCodChOjADTyv7CafW421sE3Z&index=35&t=0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwOrPwscbU&list=PLTPkKKi0RCodChOjADTyv7CafW421sE3Z&index=35&t=0s</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In paradise, You shared Your best
With us, Your children dear.
Your bounty, presence, work, and rest:
Secure from guilt or fear.
But we brought shame upon the land
And disobeyed Your clear command.
Oh, we will never understand
The darkness we brought near.
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In exile, driven from Your face,
We hid and worked in vain.
We lost the children’s honored place
And earned Your just disdain.
But Jesus came to take our blame
And took away our horrid shame
And gave to us His holy name,
That we may life regain.
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In restoration, we are free
And welcomed home anew.
You smile on us abundantly
And bless us through and through.
But as we wait for that great day,
When all dishonor melts away,
Let us, Your own beloved, say:
“Our Lord, we honor You!”</span></span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-91973172018558130532020-05-03T19:35:00.000-04:002020-05-03T19:35:20.939-04:00The Wind Blows Where It Wills<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This text was written by me in 1997 as a meditation on John 3:8 and Isaiah 42:3. It was originally set to the tune RIVER FOREST, however Concordia Publishing House has just released it as an offering for Pentecost. New life has been breathed into this text by a lovely tune and piano/flute setting by Jacob Weber. Here is the link:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYEZWMsNoOs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYEZWMsNoOs</a></span><br />
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amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-15999229096406015312020-04-30T12:30:00.001-04:002020-04-30T12:30:22.697-04:00All the Earth with Joy Is Sounding<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This Easter hymn was written by me in 1995 during my pastorate at Grace Lutheran Church in Middletown, Connecticut and was first included in <i>Hymnal Supplement 98. </i>In this hymn, I sought to explore less commonly used Easter themes: Christ as the greater Jonah, the stronger strong man, and the author of salvation. The strong tune MICHAEL was composed by Herbert Howells (1892-1983) around 1930 and was named after his son who had died at the age of 9 from meningitis in 1929.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4TUej8B2iI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4TUej8B2iI</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Christ has risen from the dead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He, the greater Jonah, bounding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Wins the prize:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Songs of triumph fill the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Casting out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Pow’rs of darkness, sin, and doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus, author of salvation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Shared in our humanity;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crowned with radiant exaltation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now He shares His victory!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> From His face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Shines the grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Meant for all our fallen race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Praise the Lord, His reign commences,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Reign of life and liberty—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Bow before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Christ, the Lord of Life adore!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-3102862656749693142020-04-26T15:23:00.001-04:002020-04-26T15:23:31.538-04:00Christ Is Risen, Christ Is Living<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The hymn text is by Argentinian poet and Disciples of Christ minister Nicolás Martinez (1917-72) and is based upon 1 Corinthians 15:12-23. Translating the hymn into English was the task of the Dutch-born English Congregationalist minister, Fred Kaan (1929-2009). This translation's use of many one-syllable words provides the hymn with a driving, staccato vibrancy appropriate to the hymn's Easter message. The tune, CENTRAL, was composed in 1960 by Pablo Sosa and takes its name from <i>Central United Methodist Church </i>in Buenos Aires. The tune has an energetic rhythm, suggesting accompaniment better suited to a guitar than an organ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaGl8l6KsE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaGl8l6KsE</a> (text in original Spanish)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJIEYynlGA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJIEYynlGA</a> (piano with solo voice)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRuozXbJ7A&pbjreload=10">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRuozXbJ7A&pbjreload=10</a> (Christ Church, Fitchburg, Mass. [Episcopalian], English and Spanish with assorted instruments, choir)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Make it known He goes before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> “You will live, because I live.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> So in Christ we live again;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death has lost its sting and terror,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death has lost its old dominion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Let the world rejoice and shout!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ, the firstborn of the living,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Gives us life and leads us out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let us thank our God, who causes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Hope to spring up from the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ is risen, Christ is giving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Life eternal, life profound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">¡Cristo vive, fuera_el llanto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> los lamentos y_el pesar!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ni la muerte ni_el sepulcro<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> lo_han podido sujetar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No busquéis entre los muertos<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> al que siempre_ha de vivir,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">¡Cristo vive, estas nuevas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> por doquier dejad oir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Que si Cristo no viviera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> vana fuera nuestra fe;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mas se cumple su promesa:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span lang="NO-BOK">“Porque vivo, viviréis.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Si_en Adán entró la muerte,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> por Jesús la vida_entró;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No temáis, el triunfo_es vuestro:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span lang="NO-BOK">¡El Señor resucitó!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Si es verdad que de la muerte<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="NO-BOK"> e</span>l pecado es aguijón,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No temáis pues Jesucristo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="NO-BOK"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> nos da vida y salvación.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gracias demos al Dios Padre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> que nos da seguridad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Que quien cree en Jesucristo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> vive por la eternidad.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-22647763921619989152020-04-25T14:22:00.003-04:002020-04-25T14:22:49.980-04:00If Christ Had Not Been Raised From Death<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christopher Idle (b. 1938) wrote this text in May of 1984 while serving as minister at Limehouse, East London. The text was conceived and written as a response to liberal voices of the late 20th century that had questioned the central doctrine of the Christian faith: Christ's bodily resurrection from the dead. This is no new heresy. St. Paul had addressed this same issue nearly 2,000 years earlier in 1 Corinthians 15, the great resurrection chapter penned by the apostle under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The tune UNION CITY was composed by Phillip Magness (b. 1963) who had attended his grandmother's funeral in Union City, Tennessee and the funeral sermon was on the passage of Scripture on which this hymn is based.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKo-AoN_9I" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKo-AoN_9I</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DcM-GhUIY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DcM-GhUIY</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Christ had not been raised from death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our faith would be in vain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our preaching but a waste of breath,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin and guilt remain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But now the Lord is ris’n indeed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> He rules in earth and heav’n:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His gospel meets a world of need—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In Christ we are forgiv’n.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Christ still lay within the tomb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Then death would be the end,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we should face our final doom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With neither guide nor friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But now the Savior is raised up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> So when a Christian dies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We mourn, yet look to God in hope—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In Christ the saints arise!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Christ had not been truly raised,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> His Church would live a lie;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His name should nevermore be praised,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> His words deserve to die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But now our great Redeemer lives;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Through this we are restored:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His Word endures, His Church revives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In Christ, our risen Lord.</span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-56585332965512209882020-04-23T14:02:00.003-04:002020-04-23T15:08:29.205-04:00This Joyful Eastertide<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hymn was written by George Ratcliffe Woodford (1848-1934). The scriptural basis for the text is 1 Corinthians 15, St. Paul's great resurrection chapter. In it, the apostle refutes any claims that Christ did not rise bodily from the dead. Herein Christians receive comfort, hope, and the assurance of their own bodily resurrection from the dead on the Last Day. (The original order of the stanzas is 1, 3, 2 [</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">reflected in the King's College Cambridge and Quarantine Choir links below] </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was altered, most likely to place the sequence of events in chronological order: the death of the believer, the body's rest in the grave, and then the waking of the dead at the Last Day.) The tune VRUECHTEN (Dutch for "fruits") is from </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Davids Psalmen, </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Amsterdam, 1684.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tipsbcfuB4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tipsbcfuB4</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyNYjD91TyI"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyNYjD91TyI</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDjkPwHVJoc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDjkPwHVJoc</a> (organ only)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This joyful Eastertide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Away with sin and sorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My love, the Crucified,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Has sprung to life this morrow:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Had Christ, who once was slain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Not burst His three-day prison,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our faith had been in vain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen, arisen, arisen;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death’s flood has lost its chill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Since Jesus crossed the river;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lover of souls, from ill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> My passing soul deliver:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Had Christ, who once was slain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Not burst His three-day prison,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our faith had been in vain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen, arisen, arisen;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My flesh in hope shall rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And for a season slumber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Till trump from east to west<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Shall wake the dead in number:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Had Christ, who once was slain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Not burst His three-day prison,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our faith had been in vain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen, arisen, arisen;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> But now has Christ arisen!</span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-57744375078942037012020-04-21T13:19:00.002-04:002020-04-21T13:19:55.612-04:00Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An Easter hymn by Bernard Kyamanywa (b. 1938), translated by Howard S. Olsen (1922-2010) has become a favorite in our Lutheran Service Book hymnal (LSB 466). The tune MFURAHINI HALELUYA is from Tanzania in Africa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmWgMeD5cmg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmWgMeD5cmg</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE2zi1JqnSw"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE2zi1JqnSw</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christ has arisen, alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rejoice and praise Him, alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For our Redeemer burst from the tomb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even from death, dispelling its gloom.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let us sing praise to Him with endless joy;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death’s fearful sting He has come to destroy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin forgiving, alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Jesus is living, alleluia!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For three long days the grave did its worst<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Until its strength by God was dispersed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He who gives life did death undergo;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And in its conquest His might did show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let us sing praise to Him with endless joy;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death’s fearful sting He has come to destroy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin forgiving, alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Jesus is living, alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The angel said to them, “Do not fear!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You look for Jesus who is not here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See for yourselves the tomb is all bare;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only the grave cloths are lying there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let us sing praise to Him with endless joy;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death’s fearful sting He has come to destroy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin forgiving, alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Jesus is living, alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Go spread the news: He’s not in the grave;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He has arisen this world to save.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus’ redeeming labors are done;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even the battle with sin is won.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let us sing praise to Him with endless joy;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death’s fearful sting He has come to destroy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin forgiving, alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Jesus is living, alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christ has arisen; He sets us free;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alleluia, to Him praises be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jesus is living! Let us all sing;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He reigns triumphant, heavenly king.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let us sing praise to Him with endless joy;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Death’s fearful sting He has come to destroy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Our sin forgiving, alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Jesus is living, alleluia!</i></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-15332040172682103932020-04-19T16:44:00.002-04:002020-04-19T16:56:48.574-04:00Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An Easter text by Herbert F. Brokering (1926-2009) set to the tune EARTH AND ALL STARS by David N. Johnson (1922-87). As the Lutheran supplement <i>With One Voice </i>was being prepared in 1995, its editors suggested to Herbert that he write an Easter hymn for Johnson's tune EARTH AND ALL STARS that would draw together thoughts and themes from throughout the Easter season. The result is this hymn that has come to hold a special place for many. (Stanza 2 recalls the account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus [Luke 24:13-49], incorporating one of the hallmark's of Brokering's poetry: the word "surprise.")</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDmJ035FMo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDmJ035FMo</a> (omits stanza 3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx7h0ShOJIE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx7h0ShOJIE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jesus is risen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trumpets resounding in glorious light!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Splendor, the Lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Heaven forever!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, what a miracle God has in sight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus is risen and we shall arise:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Give God the glory! Alleluia!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Walking the way,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Christ in the center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Telling the story to open our eyes;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Breaking our bread,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Giving us glory:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus our blessing, our constant surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus is risen and we shall arise:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Give God the glory! Alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus the vine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> We are the branches;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Life in the Spirit the fruit of the tree;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Heaven to earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Christ to the people,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gift of the future now flowing to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus is risen and we shall arise:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Give God the glory! Alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Weeping, be gone;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Sorrow, be silent:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Death put asunder, and Easter is bright.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Cherubim sing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> “O grave, be open!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Clothe us in wonder, adorn us in light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus is risen and we shall arise:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Give God the glory! Alleluia!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">City of God,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Easter forever,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Golden Jerusalem, Jesus the Lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> River of life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Saints and archangels,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sing with creation to God the I AM!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus is risen and we shall arise:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Give God the glory! Alleluia!</i></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-25696154323470478292020-04-16T13:58:00.001-04:002020-04-16T13:59:01.001-04:00Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Martin Luther's great Easter text speaks of the triumph of Christ's resurrection victory (stanza 1). It points to our bondage to sin and death in the second stanza, and reviews the saving work of Christ in His fight against death, in stanzas 3 and 4. Using strong picture language, the hymn also uses Passover imagery in the final three stanzas to express joy of God's people saved by all that Christ has done! CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN (Wittenberg, 1524) is the strong tune that successfully carries the weight of the text and helps express the joyful victory of Easter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-6jr6VaHk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB-6jr6VaHk</a> (if you look closely, you can see Pastor Starke and Jon Enge and the Amelith youth, middle left, second and third pews!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXMKrjNX2W4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXMKrjNX2W4</a> (handbells)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ Jesus lay in death’s strong bands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> For our offenses given;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But now at God’s right hand He stands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And brings us life from heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Therefore let us joyful be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And sing to God right thankfully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Loud songs of alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No son of man could conquer death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Such ruin sin had wrought us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No innocence was found on earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And therefore death had brought us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Into bondage from of old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And ever grew more strong and bold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And held us as its captive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ Jesus, God’s own Son, came down,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> His people to deliver;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Destroying sin, He took the crown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> From Death’s pale brow forever:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stripped of pow’r, no more he reigns;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An empty form alone remains;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> His sting is lost forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a strange and dreadful strife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> When life and death contended;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The victory remained with life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The reign of death was ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Holy Scripture plainly saith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That death is swallowed up by death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Its sting is lost forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here the true Paschal Lamb we see,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Whom God so freely gave us;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He died on the accursèd tree—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> So strong His love—to save us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See, His blood now marks our door;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Faith points to it; death passes o’er,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And Satan cannot harm us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So let us keep the festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> To which the Lord invites us;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ is Himself the joy of all,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The sun that warms and light us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now His grace to us imparts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eternal sunshine to our hearts;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The night of sin is ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then let us feast this Easter Day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> On Christ, the bread of heaven;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Word of grace has purged away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The old and evil leaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christ alone our souls will feed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He is our meat and drink indeed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Faith lives upon no other!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Alleluia!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-88617532184436158922020-04-15T11:08:00.000-04:002020-04-15T11:11:08.681-04:00The Day of Resurrection<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another great, ancient Easter text by John of Damascus (696-754)! Just think how long Christians have been singing this fine hymn! Hymns connect us to Christians across the ages of time and remind us that we are part of one indivisible Church and Body of Christ. The tune LANCASHIRE was composed by Henry T. Smart (1813-79). Smart was organist of Blackburn parish in the county of Lancashire (northwest England) from 1831-1836. The tune first appeared in<i> Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship </i>(London, 1866).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpFcVvH9Lw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpFcVvH9Lw</a> (minus the doxological stanza)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czh8YTVfyCU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czh8YTVfyCU</a> "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The day of resurrection!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Earth, tell it out abroad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The passover of gladness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The passover of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From death to life eternal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> From sin’s dominion free,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our Christ has brought us over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> With hymns of victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let hearts be purged of evil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That we may see aright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Lord in rays eternal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of resurrection light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And, list’ning to His accents,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> May hear, so calm and plain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His own “All hail!” and, hearing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> May raise the victor strain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now let the heav’ns be joyful,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Let earth its song begin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let all the world keep triumph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And all that is therein.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let all things, seen and unseen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Their notes of gladness blend;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For Christ the Lord has risen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Our joy that has no end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All praise to God the Father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> All praise to God the Son,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All praise to God the Spirit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Eternal Three in One!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Let all the ransomed number<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Fall down before the throne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And honor, pow’r, and glory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Ascribe to God alone!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-56829103908293007972020-04-14T10:45:00.004-04:002020-04-14T11:25:22.425-04:00Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This hymn, written by John of Damascus (c. 675-749), has been sung in the Church since the middle of the 8th century! John links Israel's deliverance through the Red Sea (Ex. 15:1-18) with the resurrection of Jesus. The text progresses until the Church of all time joins in praising God for her deliverance by Jesus' death and resurrection. The tune, GAUDEAMUS PARITER is 16th-century Bohemian.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjjkXJ37So4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjjkXJ37So4</a> (Higher Things youth gathering)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFyaPy6NLY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFyaPy6NLY</a> (stanzas 1, 3, 5)</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQ_5pzRllM" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbQ_5pzRllM</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (stanzas 1-4)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTjZCDO_A8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTjZCDO_A8</a> (organ setting)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Come, you faithful, raise the strain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of triumphant gladness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God has brought His Israel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Into joy from sadness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yoke<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jacob’s sons and daughters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Led them with unmoistened foot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Through the Red Sea waters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">’Tis the spring of souls today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Christ has burst His prison<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And from three days’ sleep in death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> As a sun has risen;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All the winter of our sins,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Long and dark, is flying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From His light, to whom is giv’n<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Laud and praise undying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now the queen of seasons, bright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> With the day of splendor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the royal feast of feasts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Comes its joy to render;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Comes to gladden faithful hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Which with true affection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Welcome in unwearied strain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Jesus’ resurrection!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For today among His own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Christ appeared, bestowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His deep peace, which evermore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Passes human knowing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Neither could the gates of death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Nor the tomb’s dark portal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nor the watchers nor the seal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Hold Him as a mortal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alleluia! Now we cry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> To our King immortal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who, triumphant, burst the bars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of the tomb’s dark portal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Come, you faithful, raise the strain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of triumphant gladness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God has brought His Israel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Into joy from sadness!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-22735225992696680722020-04-12T18:16:00.001-04:002020-04-12T18:17:53.797-04:00Stay With Us<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A hymn by Herbert F. Brokering (1926-2009) "Stay With Us" captures an event that took place on the evening of Easter when Jesus appeared to two of His disciples walking on the road to Emmaus </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Luke 24:13-35)</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. It is paired to the tender tune STAY WITH US by Walter L. Pelz (b. 1926). The hymn text forms a beautiful prayer for us during this pandemic and is found in the evening section of Lutheran Service Book (LSB 879).</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eWvrBMI5dg"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eWvrBMI5dg</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stay with us, till night has come:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our praise to You this day be sung.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Bless our bread,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Open our eyes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus, be our great surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Walk with us. Our spirits sigh:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hear when our weary spirits cry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Feel again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Our loss, our pain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus, take us to Your side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Walk with us. The road will bend:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Make all our weeping, wailing end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Wipe our tears,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Forgive our fears:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus, lift the heavy cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Talk with us, till we behold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A joyful life You will unfold:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Heal our eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> To see the prize:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus, take us to the light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stay with us, till day is done:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No tears nor dark shall dim the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Cheer the heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Your grace impart:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jesus, bring eternal life.</span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-18777005149602167322020-04-12T00:43:00.003-04:002020-04-12T00:44:38.486-04:00Awake, My Heart, With Gladness<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How does one choose a favorite hymn for Easter? For me, the answer is Paul Gerhardt's (1607-76) "Awake, My Heart, With Gladness." It is sung to the tune AUF, AUF, MEIN HERZ composed by Johann Crueger (1598-1662). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9-11_uG7ys">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9-11_uG7ys</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDgSlpOMh0"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDgSlpOMh0</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5yYY4vSLM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5yYY4vSLM</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agRB9rxJuk"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agRB9rxJuk</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Awake, my heart, with gladness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> See what today is done;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, after gloom and sadness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Comes forth the glorious sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My Savior there was laid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where our bed must be made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> When to the realms of light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Our spirit wings its flight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The foe in triumph shouted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> When Christ lay in the tomb;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But lo, he now is routed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> His boast is turned to gloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For Christ again is free;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In glorious victory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> He who is strong to save<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Has triumphed o’er the grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a sight that gladdens—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> What peace it doth impart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now nothing ever saddens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The joy within my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No gloom shall ever shake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No foe shall ever take<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The hope which God’s own Son<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> In love for me has won.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now hell, its prince, the devil,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of all their pow’r are shorn;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I am safe from evil,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And sin I laugh to scorn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Grim death with all its might<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cannot my soul affright;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> It is a pow’rless form,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Howe’er it rave and storm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The world against me rages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Its fury I disdain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Though bitter war it wages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Its work is all in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My heart from care is free,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No trouble troubles me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Misfortune now is play,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> And night is bright as day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I will cling forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> To Christ, my Savior true;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My Lord will leave me never,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Whate’er He passes through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He rends death’s iron chain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He breaks through sin and pain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> He shatters hell’s grim thrall;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I follow Him through all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He brings me to the portal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That leads to bliss untold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whereon this rhyme immortal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Is found in script of gold:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Who there My cross has shared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finds here a crown prepared;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Who there with Me has died<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Shall here be glorified.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-65302773337136046922020-04-10T01:26:00.002-04:002020-04-10T01:26:37.160-04:00Upon the Cross Extended<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Good Friday hymn of personal reflection for each believe, penned by Paul Gerhardt (1607-76) and set to the tune O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN, by Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517). <i>"Your cords of love, my Savior, Bind me to You forever."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-zLTbxjrWI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-zLTbxjrWI</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDPbRdV4Dw"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayDPbRdV4Dw</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Upon the cross extended<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">See, world, your Lord suspended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Your Savior yields His breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Prince of Life from heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Himself has freely given<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> To shame and blows and bitter death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Come, see these things and ponder,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your soul will fill with wonder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As blood streams from each pore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Through grief beyond all knowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From His great heart came flowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Sighs welling from its deepest core.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who is it, Lord, that bruised You?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who has so sore abused You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And caused You all Your woe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We all must make confession<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of sin and dire transgression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> While You no ways of evil know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I caused Your grief and sighing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By evils multiplying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As countless as the sands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I caused the woes unnumbered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With which Your soul is cumbered,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Your sorrows raised by wicked hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your soul in griefs unbounded,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your head with thorns surrounded,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> You died to ransom me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cross for me enduring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The crown for me securing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> You healed my wounds and set me free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your cords of love, my Savior,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bind me to You forever,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I am no longer mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To You I gladly tender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All that my life can render<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And all I have to You resign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your cross I place before me;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Its saving pow’r restore me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Sustain me in the test.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It will, when life is ending,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be guiding and attending<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> My way to Your eternal rest</span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-22357358583387808862020-04-09T00:46:00.006-04:002020-04-09T00:47:59.929-04:00When You Woke That Thursday Morning<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A deeply moving Holy Week text by Jaroslav Vajda (1919-2008), it is set in LSB (#445) to the tune by Marty Haugen (b. 1950) JOYOUS LIGHT, which I feel is a bit too 'cheerful' for this text. A far better match in my opinion is the tune MAUNDY by David Schack (b. 1947) and is shared in the following link. The somber character of this tune better supports the reflective nature of this fine text.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzCHYO8KoTE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzCHYO8KoTE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When You woke that Thursday morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Savior, teacher, faithful friend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thoughts of self and safety scorning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Knowing how the day would end;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lamb of God, foretold for ages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Now at last the hour had come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When but One could pay sin’s wages:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> You assumed their dreadful sum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Never so alone and lonely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Longing with tormented heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To be with Your dear ones only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> For a quiet hour apart:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sinless Lamb and fallen creature,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> One last paschal meal to eat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One last lesson as their teacher,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Washing Your disciples’ feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What was there that You could give them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That would never be outspent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What great gift that would outlive them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> What last will and testament?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Show Me and the world you love Me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Know Me as the Lamb of God:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do this in remembrance of Me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Eat this body, drink this blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One in faith, in love united,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> All one body, You the head,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we meet, by You invited,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> You are with us, as You said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One with You and one another<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> In a unity sublime,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See in us Your sister, brother,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> One in ev’ry place and time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One day all the Church will capture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That bright vision glorious,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Your saints will know the rapture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That Your heart desired for us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the longed-for peace and union<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Of the Greatest and the least<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meet in joyous, blest communion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> In Your never-ending feast.</span>amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-63220510924367674702020-04-08T09:38:00.002-04:002020-04-08T09:39:11.950-04:00O Dearest Jesus, What Law Hast Thou Broken<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This passion hymn by Johann Heermann (1585-1647) was translated into English by Catherine Winkworth (1872-78) and is paired to the tune HERZLIEBSTER JESU by Johann Crueger (1598-1662). A great text for meditation as Good Friday draws near.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jul9U6w9tos" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jul9U6w9tos</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph1w1f7txD8"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph1w1f7txD</span>8</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAo-IoOTsBk" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAo-IoOTsBk</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O dearest Jesus, what law hast Thou broken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That such sharp sentence should on Thee be spoken?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of what great crime hast Thou to make confession,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What dark transgression?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They crown Thy head with thorns, they smite, they scourge Thee;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With cruel mockings to the cross they urge Thee;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They give Thee gall to drink, they still decry Thee;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They crucify Thee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whence come these sorrows, whence this mortal anguish?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is my sins for which Thou, Lord, must languish;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yea, all the wrath, the woe, Thou dost inherit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This I do merit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What punishment so strange is suffered yonder!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Shepherd dies for sheep that loved to wander;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Master pays the debt His servants own Him,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who would not know Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sinless Son of God must die in sadness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sinful child of man may live in gladness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Man forfeited his life and is acquitted;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">God is committed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There was no spot in me by sin untainted;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sick with sin’s poison, all my heart had fainted;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My heavy guilt to hell had well-nigh brought me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such woe it wrought me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O wondrous love, whose depth no heart hath sounded,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That brought Thee here, by foes and thieves surrounded!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All worldly pleasures, heedless, I was trying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While Thou wert dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">O mighty King, no time can dim Thy glory!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How shall I spread abroad Thy wondrous story?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How shall I find some worthy gifts to proffer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What dare I offer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For vainly doth our human wisdom ponder—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thy woes, Thy mercy, still transcend our wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, how should I do aught that could delight Thee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can I requite Thee?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet unrequited, Lord, I would not leave Thee;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will renounce whate’er doth vex or grieve Thee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And quench with thoughts of Thee and prayers most lowly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But since my strength will nevermore suffice me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To crucify desires that still entice me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To all good deeds O let Thy Spirit win me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And reign within me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’ll think upon Thy mercy without ceasing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That earth’s vain joys to me no more be pleasing;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To do Thy will shall be my sole endeavor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Henceforth forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whate’er of earthly good this life may grant me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’ll risk for Thee; no shame, no cross, shall daunt me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I shall not fear what foes can do to harm me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nor death alarm me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But worthless is my sacrifice, I own it;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet, Lord, for love’s sake Thou wilt not disown it;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And when, dear Lord, before Thy throne in heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To me the crown of joy at last is given,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where sweetest hymns Thy saints forever raise Thee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-70062253657035046122020-04-06T23:38:00.001-04:002020-04-06T23:38:58.011-04:00In Babylon We Weep<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This new text by Alan Kornacki, Jr. (b. 1974) captures well the hunger Christians are feeling for the Sacrament of the Altar during this pandemic time of social distancing and sheltering at home. The final stanza's prayer for the Lord's mercy in the midst of this crisis is a fitting conclusion that points us to that time when we will reunite around the Lord's Table; it will truly be a Eucharist, a meal of thanksgiving! The suggested tune is SOUTHWELL, a good fit!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">1. In Babylon we weep.<br /> Your house is dark and still.<br /> Our woe in exile, Lord, is deep,<br /><span class="textexposedshow"> Our grief, a bitter pill.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">2. Your people stand apart,<br /> Dispersed by earthly care.<br /> The devil aims his fiery dart<br /> Of doubt and deep despair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">3. We hunger to be fed<br /> As You have bid us do:<br /> To dine upon the living Bread<br /> And sing Your praise anew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">4. Until that happy day<br /> When saints may reunite,<br /> Sustain us with Your holy Word<br /> To guide us through this night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">5. And as our hunger grows,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br /> As we desire the Feast,<br /> Fill us with grace which ever flows<br /> For greatest and for least.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">6. We beg, O Christ: with haste<br /> Let blood-bought mercy shine<br /> Until the day we joy to taste<br /> Of You in bread and wine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-52936101844364699042020-04-05T23:44:00.002-04:002020-04-05T23:58:40.572-04:00Go To Dark Gethsemane<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The text of this hymn was written by James Montgomery (1771-1854) and the tune GETHSEMANE was composed by Richard Redhead (1820-1901). The hymn walks us through the events of Holy Week as we are encouraged to <i>go, see, watch, turn not away, learn to pray, follow, view, shun not, learn to bear the cross, climb, adore, mark, hear, learn to die, hasten, be met, be taught to rise.</i> This is definitely a "hands" hymn...we are called upon to do!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_2WI4guKI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_2WI4guKI</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6tcMroY0A"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6tcMroY0A</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPJNxQStRY" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPJNxQStRY</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Go to dark Gethsemane,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> All who feel the tempter’s pow’r;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Your Redeemer’s conflict see,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Watch with Him one bitter hour;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Turn not from His griefs away;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Learn from Jesus Christ to pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Follow to the judgment hall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> View the Lord of life arraigned;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Oh, the wormwood and the gall!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Oh, the pangs His soul sustained!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Shun not suff’ring, shame, or loss;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Calv’ry’s mournful mountain climb;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> There, adoring at His feet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Mark that miracle of time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> God’s own sacrifice complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> “It is finished!” hear Him cry;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Learn from Jesus Christ to die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Where they laid His breathless clay;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> All is solitude and gloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Who has taken Him away?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Christ is ris’n! He meets our eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Savior, teach us so to rise.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-12099937109618582552020-04-04T23:19:00.000-04:002020-04-04T23:19:01.769-04:00No Tramp of Soldiers' Marching Feet<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This superb Palm Sunday text by Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) is extremely well written. His repetition of the final line in each stanza is one unifying device. He retells the story of Passion week with beautiful poetry. My favorite words are in stanza 2, line 1: "And yet He comes." Knowing all that would follow that exuberant entrance into Jerusalem, how the "hosannas" would turn into demands of "Crucify Him," <i>yet He comes.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The English tune KINGSFOLD well suits and supports the text of the hymn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gC4h478IDI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gC4h478IDI</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUIMWbVvlg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUIMWbVvlg</a></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLR5gS6SZs"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLR5gS6SZs</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. No tramp of soldiers’ marching feet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With banners and with drums,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> No sound of music’s martial beat—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “The King of glory comes!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> To greet what pomp of kingly pride<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> No bells in triumph ring,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “Behold, behold your King!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. And yet He comes. The children cheer;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With palms His path is strown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With ev’ry step the cross draws near—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The King of glory’s throne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As loud hosannas ring,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Or else the very stones would cry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “Behold, behold your King!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. What fading flow’rs His road adorn;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The King of glory’s crown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The soldiers mock, the rabble cries,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> As Pilate to the mob replies,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “Behold, behold your King!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Now He who bore for mortals’ sake<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And chose a servant’s form to take,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Hosanna to the Savior’s name<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And all the ransomed host proclaim<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> “Behold, behold your King!”</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />amelithpastorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06996662819387263599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8644392718114664034.post-89943542777279154352020-04-04T00:06:00.000-04:002020-04-04T00:06:28.707-04:00Hosanna, Loud Hosanna<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another favorite Palm Sunday text sung by Christians everywhere as Holy Week begins. Text by Jeannette Threlfall (1821-80). Tune ELLACOMBE is German, 1784. The meter for this hymn text is 76 76 D which means that the first line has seven syllables, the second line has six syllables, the third line has seven syllables, the fourth line has six syllables, and then that pattern is repeated or doubled (D).</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbJWeZNVrA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbJWeZNVrA</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlI2CHUkR4g&list=TLPQMDQwNDIwMjA4nH-neSXlNA&index=5">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlI2CHUkR4g&list=TLPQMDQwNDIwMjA4nH-neSXlNA&index=5</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Hosanna, loud hosanna,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The little children sang;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Through pillared court and temple<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The lovely anthem rang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> To Jesus, who had blessed them,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Close folded to His breast,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The children sang their praises,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The simplest and the best.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. From Olivet they followed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Mid an exultant crowd,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The victor palm branch waving<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And chanting clear and loud.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The Lord of earth and heaven<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Rode on in lowly state<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Nor scorned that little children<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Should on His bidding wait.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. “Hosanna in the highest!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> That ancient song we sing;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> For Christ is our Redeemer,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The Lord of heav’n our King.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> O may we ever praise Him<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> With heart and life and voice<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And in His blissful presence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Eternally rejoice!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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