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A Baptismal Liturgy
$0.00 or moreA Baptismal LiturgyAdd to cartThis is not music, but a service of baptism which may be adapted for a baptism, Confirmation, and/or service of congregational baptismal renewal. -
Anna and Simeon’s Song
$3.00 or moreAnna and Simeon’s SongAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Luke 2.25-38. For congregation or solo (or duet). [Hear it in the Product Description below.]
Lyrics: Today I held in my trembling hands such a child so pure: a gift of grace, God’s human face, love so tenderly given. Wonder! Wonder! How God’s promise is sure! Fears cease in hope and peace: earth has now become heaven. Today I saw with my wondering eyes such a child divine! My heart sang out for all about shone the light of the Near One. Wonder! Wonder! That this joy could be mine. Jesus has come to us, the Beloved, the Dear one. Today you’ll meet in a simple way such a Presence, a Friend: the Gentle One refuses none with God’s tender salvation. Wonder! Wonder! Miracle without end! Praise, pray and everyday bow in deep adoration. -
Baptism – a Brief Glimpse
$0.00 or moreBaptism – a Brief GlimpseAdd to cartAn overview of the meaning of Baptism. -
Baptized in Light
$0.00 or moreBaptized in LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Baptized in water, we are your creatures, each son and daughter washed and reborn, fully forgiven, blessed and made new now, buried and risen into the morn. Baptized in light, God, we are your vessels, love shining bright in all that we do, as new creations, we are your glory, bright with elation, radiant with you. Baptized in Spirit, we are your servants. This we inherit: to be your light, Christ rising in us, healing and blessing, poor given justice, blind given sight. Baptized in love, my dearest companions, Spirit’s bright dove fly with you each day. God’s light revealing, go now in peace, friends, blessing and healing, lighting the way. -
Bearers of Light
$0.00 or moreBearers of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, how you love us, hold us and bless us, reign from above us, lead us by hand Call us to healing, bound by your Promise, your Word revealing, by your command. Great holy giver of life and wonder, deep like a river your blessings flow. Gladly we give you praise and thanksgiving: gifts we will give wherever we go. Baptized, anointed, filled with your Spirit, we are appointed bearers of light: for liberation, servants of justice, bringing the nations joy and delight. -
Breath of God
$0.00 or moreBreath of GodAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Londonderry Air (Oh Danny Boy) . Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O Holy One, Creator of the stars of night, whose dust we are, created with your light, now breathe your spirit into us and give us life; give us new hearts that beat with your delight. Our dust and ashes, Love, we give in faith to you. Receive our lives, our sin, our wounds, our death; and raise us up with Christ from death to life by grace. God, may we be your love and you our living breath. Breathe into us the breath of your compassion, God, the breath to sing your praise in all we do, the breath to run the race of justice, long and far. Breathe, holy breath: empower and renew. O be the grace that fills our lungs, reviving us; O be the wind on which our hearts can soar; O be our life, our beauty and our living breath. O Spirit, come breathe in us now and evermore. -
Child of God
$3.00 or moreChild of GodAdd to cartOriginal song. May be sung repeatedly in the style of Taizé. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: I'm a child, a child of God, God's beloved, in whom God is pleased. I am held in the arms of God. -
Children of the Resurrection
$0.00 or moreChildren of the ResurrectionAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA. (Alternate:Ode to Joy.) Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ is risen! Baptized in his death and rising, so are we. Children of the resurrection, we are one now; we are free. Fear no longer holds us, and we live with love courageously, giving gifts and sharing love for God, who loves eternally. * In this feast we greet the risen Christ, who calls us all in grace, gathered into one and fed with love, we now are mercy’s face. Now we are Christ’s risen Body; for the world we now are light, children of the resurrection, radiant with eternal life. * Without communion: “With glad hearts we greet the risen Christ ...” -
Christ We Are Baptized
$0.00 or moreChrist We Are BaptizedAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ we are baptized into your dying, all of our life poured out into yours; and we are baptized into your rising, life given to us from your deep stores. Christ we are baptized into your Body: we are all one community here. This is your presence, this is your rising: loving anew in your people dear. Christ we are baptized into your service: gentle and healing in all the strife, vessels of grace, who bear your redemption, bright with the light of eternal life. Christ we are baptized your New Creation, all of the world made new by your grace: dawn of your Realm of mercy and justice, Christ shining, risen, granting us peace. -
God Eternal, Holy Trinity
$0.00 or moreGod Eternal, Holy TrinityAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God Eternal, Holy Trinity, Father-Mother, Spirit, Son, Gracious Mystery, Loving Family, you have baptized us as one. Sharing life at your kitchen table, feeding us with generous grace, send us now into the world, one with all the human race. Christ, our Brother, Guide and Teacher, Savior, Healer, Living Word: we are baptized in your dying, in your rising, love out-poured. You have fed us with the outcast, raised us to new life in you; send us now to love our neighbors, with your Presence in all we do. Holy Spirit, Bright Companion, Breath of Life that lives in us, we are baptized in your power, grace to share your love and peace. Send us now as your living Body, radiant with your infinite grace. Lead us, guide us, bless and sustain us. May our living be your praise -
God, We Rise to Serve You
$0.00 or moreGod, We Rise to Serve YouAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Sing We Now of Christmas / Now the Green Blade Rises. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, we rise to serve you, baptized in your love as your Holy Spirit hovers like a dove. We, your Beloved, whom you bless with grace, offer you our gifts with love and joy and peace. God, your Spirit in us, dove with wings unfurled, gives us pow’r to bring forth justice to the world. Baptized in Christ, we serve with mercy’s grace, bringing to the world your love and joy and peace. -
I Belong to You
$0.00 or moreI Belong to YouAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: Water is Wide / Gift of Love
Lyrics: Beloved, I belong to you. You give me birth; you make me new, your image formed, by Spirit stirred. You are the Song; I am your Word.
Whatever pains I may endure, I still belong. Your love is sure. Since I am yours, your will I do. I trust and give myself to you.
I am your coin to richly spend, so spend me, God, as you intend. You bless my end; you hold my worth; send me to love throughout the earth.
Beloved, I belong to you. Do with me what your love will do. Bear me, and I, through ease or strife will find in you eternal life. -
Immersed in Blessing
$0.00 or moreImmersed in BlessingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Joyful, Joyful. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Baptized in your grace with Jesus, loving God, we sing your praise. Echoing your own delight, with joy and thanks our song we raise. Your beloved children, birthed anew and rising from your womb, God, we bear your love through all our living, and beyond the tomb. God you heal, forgive and nourish, and revive us breath by breath; you restore our broken trust and save us from our fear of death. Like a dry and withered plant revived by water at its root, we are saved by streams of grace, for flourishing and bearing fruit. Bathed in grace, immersed in blessing, joined with your Beloved Son, how can we not love each other?— for your Spirit makes us One. Carried on a stream of mercy, springs beneath and rain above, may we flow with peace and in your Spirit flood the world with love. -
Light for the World
$3.00 or moreLight for the WorldAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. May be sung as a stand-alone song, or used as a weekly "theme song," especially in Epiphany, Year A. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) There are 19 verses to choose from. Sample lyrics: Chorus: Love, may we live by your light. Let us be light for the world. Sample verses: Magi who followed the light of your star offered their gifts to your glory. May we shine brightly wherever we are. Our love will tell your story. You are the light, the light of the world. Give thanks for the light shining in you. Let your light shine so that others may see, and glorify God. When you belong to God you are light, no longer held in the dark night. Live what is loving and true, my friends, as children of light. Give your attention to God's good news, like a candle that shines in a dark place; Let that light fill you and guide you, my friends, and shine with love. -
Like the Sun Rising
$0.00 or moreLike the Sun RisingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ, we surrender all of our living into your tender, merciful grace Baptized in you, we join in your dying, and rising, too, in your life’s embrace. Christ, you are living in us in mercy, faithfully giving life that is true. Like the sun rising, fresh every morning, free and surprising, we are made new. Great Holy Spirit, live in us daily, free from the fear that once bound us in, free now to love our neighbors with courage, rising above our death and our sin. Blest and forgiven and resurrected, set free for living by grace alone, may we live lives of gentle compassion, with the same light that in you has shone. -
New Breath
$0.00 or moreNew BreathAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ, we are baptized into your dying, and like the sunrise, we are made new, given new breath, to live every moment, for out of death comes new life in you. Great Holy Spirit, breathe in us daily, set free from fear that once bound us in, free now to love our neighbors with courage, rising above our death and our sin. Blessed and forgiven and resurrected, set free for living by grace alone, may we live lives of gentle compassion, with the same light that in Jesus shone. -
Sleeper, Awake
$3.00 or moreSleeper, AwakeAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Ephesians 5.14. May be sung once or repeated in the style of Taize. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) -
Spark of Light
$0.00 or moreSpark of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Most effective as a solo, with congregation joining on the final chorus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: In the cold and dark of night a Spirit gives a spark of light and breathes the breath of life that flows right through ya. The Spirit births and blesses you, and holds you and caresses you, and looks at you and cries out, “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah, hallelujah... With light that glimmers in your eyes your heart sings out to harmonize with everyone —they're all related to ya. The love in us will always pull our hearts together, beautiful, and make us all a single “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah... So even in the dark of night the Spirit gives us hopeful sight. You don't think that the end is coming, do ya? We'll bear the light and sing the song and side by side we'll work along until the whole world sings God's “Hallelujah.” Hallelujah... -
Spirit Feast
$0.00 or moreSpirit FeastAdd to cartOriginal lyrics—referring to both Baptism and Communion— set to the tune of Cradle Song (an alternative tune for Away in a Manger). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: With hearts that are baptized in mercy and grace, we enter the mystery of this time and place to feast on your mercy in light from above, receiving your Spirit, made one in your love. The cup that we drink from flows deep with your love, the water of blessing, descent of the dove. “My Chosen, Beloved, in whim I am pleased,” we're sent by your Spirit to shine with your light. With blest, grateful hearts, God, we come to this feast, and pray that your Spirit in us be released. This sharing, this joy and this justice you share is ours now to bring to the word everywhere. -
Spirit Wind
$0.00 or moreSpirit WindAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What Wondrous Love Is This. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul! That you who made the earth with love would give us birth and by your Spirit’s breath lead us on, lead us on, and by your Spirit’s breath make us whole. Great Spirit, may the wind of your love freely blow, oh, let your wind of love freely blow, and guide us in your grace in every time and place, to bear your love and peace as we go, as we go. Oh, let the winds of love freely blow! As we are born anew from above, from above, God, send us out to serve in your love. And may we freely go wherever your winds blow, though how we do not know, in your love, in your love, wherever your winds blow, in your love.baptism,Holy Spirit -
Washed In Your Waters
$0.00 or moreWashed In Your WatersAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Washed in your waters, baptized with Jesus, your sons and daughters, risen anew, each day we live, God, we drink your blessings. Our lives we give, then, gladly to you. Not our deserving, but your indwelling blessing us, serving, will be our guide. Source of our living, Word of your Presence, Spirit of giving, stay by our side. Filled with your Spirit, one in your Body, Christ, we inherit mercy and light. Guide and defend us, and daily send us into the world to share your delight. Spirit who frees us, give us your courage, to walk with Jesus all of our days, blessing and healing, justice revealing, till all the world sings in thanks and praise. -
We Welcome the Child
$3.00 or moreWe Welcome the ChildAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Hear an audio clip in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: We welcome the child among us. We welcome the tender ones. In our embrace we meet your grace, your gentle love divine. Welcome to those who are fragile, a safe healing place to belong, a shelter from harm, a comforting arm, a refuge where you may grow strong. Welcome the child within us, the small, timid voice in the night, her wonder and fear at the world so near, the child of your love and delight. God, you are a child among us, no power or might or control. By your gentle part you soften my heart and make me a more loving soul. -
When Jesus Was Baptized
$3.00 or moreWhen Jesus Was BaptizedAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of "Cradle Song." (Hear an audio sample in the product description.) Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: When Jesus was baptized John said to repent, and follow the Righteous One whom God had sent. So wash us, dear God, and create us anew, born fresh from your Word and living wholly in you. When Jesus was baptized in waters that flow he sank in the Source of what makes all things grow. So, held in Creation, renewed and made one, we swim in the grace of your life-giving Son. When Jesus was baptized in light, like a dove your Spirit came down and you filled him with love. So give us your Spirit; let all that we do be you living in us as we live in you. When Jesus was baptized you spoke from above, saying “This is my servant, my son whom I love.” So help us to hear you speak love when you call, and as your Beloved, share freely with all. -
You Are My Delight
$3.00 or moreYou Are My DelightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of O Danny Boy. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We come with you, dear Jesus, through the desert hills, down to the river, flowing gently by, where through the rocks and valleys, deepening, it spills, and flows into the sea, the earth, the sky. As we sink down and rise up from the water a dove descends, a voice speaks, clear and bright: “Know you are my beloved son, my daughter, my spirit is in you and you are my delight.” We go our way, and in our daily living we follow you, and scatter rays of love in deeds of caring, healing grace and giving, for still we hear that voice and see the dove: “No river can undo you, for with you I go. I give my heart to you, and give you light. For you are mine; I hold you and I love you so. All water says, Remember you are my delight." -
Your Hands and Your Face
$0.00 or moreYour Hands and Your FaceAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God of all holiness, baptized in you, we are your Body: your presence shines through. We, poor in spirit, are blessed with your own. May our lives shine forth with your grace alone. We who with Jesus do mourn with the world shall see your banners of deep joy unfurled. We who are hungry for love freely shared feast at the banquet that you have prepared. May we be merciful and pure in heart, your gentle peacemakers, doing our part. Dying and rising, we do not fear loss, sealed with your Spirit and marked with your cross. Blest and beloved and baptized to serve, we are your Body and you are our nerve. Not by our effort, but by your pure grace, may we be your hands and your human face.