We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

We thank thee, O God, for a prophet

To guide us in these latter days.

We thank thee for sending the gospel

To lighten our minds with its rays.

We thank thee for every blessing

Bestowed by thy bounteous hand.

We feel it a pleasure to serve thee

And love to obey thy command.

When dark clouds of trouble hang o’er us

And threaten our peace to destroy,

There is hope smiling brightly before us,

And we know that deliv’rance is nigh.

We doubt not the Lord nor his goodness.

We’ve proved him in days that are past.

The wicked who fight against Zion

Will surely be smitten at last.

We’ll sing of his goodness and mercy.

We’ll praise him by day and by night,

Rejoice in his glorious gospel,

And bask in its life-giving light.

Thus on to eternal perfection

The honest and faithful will go,

While they who reject this glad message

Shall never such happiness know.

-- William Fowler 

Terri Crockett Hutchings · We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

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In Memory of the Crucified

In mem’ry of the Crucified,

Our Father, we have met this hour.

May thy sweet Spirit here abide,

That all may feel its glowing pow’r.

 

Our Savior, in Gethsemane,

Shrank not to drink the bitter cup,

And then, for us, on Calvary,

Upon the cross was lifted up.

 

We rev’rence with the broken bread,

Together with the cup we take,

The body bruised, the lifeblood shed,

A sinless ransom for our sake.

 

Our Father, may this sacrament

To ev’ry soul be sanctified

Who eats and drinks with pure intent,

That in our Savior he’ll abide.

Text:  Frank I. Kooyman

Terri Crockett Hutchings · In Memory of the Crucified

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Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me

Jesus, Savior, pilot me

Over life’s tempestuous sea;

Unknown waves before me roll,

Hiding rock and treach’rous shoal.

Chart and compass came from thee;

Jesus, Savior, pilot me.

As a mother stills her child,

Thou canst hush the ocean wild;

Boist’rous waves obey thy will

When thou say’st to them, “Be still!”

Wondrous Sov’reign of the sea,

Jesus, Savior, pilot me.

When at last I near the shore,

And the fearful breakers roar

’Twixt me and the peaceful rest,

Then, while leaning on thy breast,

May I hear thee say to me,

“Fear not; I will pilot thee.”

Text: Edward Hopper

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O God, the Eternal Father

O God, th’Eternal Father,

Who dwells amid the sky,

In Jesus’ name we ask thee

To bless and sanctify,

If we are pure before thee,

This bread and cup of wine,

That we may all remember

That offering divine—

That sacred, holy off’ring,

By man least understood,

To have our sins remitted

And take his flesh and blood,

That we may ever witness

The suff’ring of thy Son,

And always have his Spirit

To make our hearts as one.

 

When Jesus, the Anointed,

Descended from above

And gave himself a ransom

To win our souls with love—

With no apparent beauty,

That man should him desire—

He was the promised Savior,

To purify with fire.

 

How infinite that wisdom,

The plan of holiness,

That made salvation perfect

And veiled the Lord in flesh,

To walk upon his footstool

And be like man, almost,

In his exalted station,

And die, or all was lost.

Text by William W. Phelps

Terri Crockett Hutchings · O God, the Eternal Father

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God So Loved the World

God so loved the world,

God so loved the world

that he gave his only begotton Son,

that whoso believeth, believeth in him

should not perish,

should not perish,

but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world

to condemn the world,

God sent not his Son into the world

to condemn the world,

but that the world through him might be saved.

 

God so loved the world,

God so loved the world

that he gave his only begotton Son,

that whoso believeth, believeth in him

should not perish,

should not perish,

but have everlasting life

everlasting life, everlasting, everlasting life.

God so loved the world,

God so loved the world,

God so loved the world.

— John Stainer

Terri Crockett Hutchings · God So Loved the World

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