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All of the Gifts I Have
$0.00 or moreAll of the Gifts I HaveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to Tune: Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Lyrics: All of the gifts I have, all that is within me, you give to me, O God, with care; all of my prayers and skills, passions and energies you grant to me to freely share.
Here are my hopes and dreams, attitudes and deepest loves, all of the treasure to which I cling. I will not hold them in, stilling my ardent song, but serving you I’ll freely sing.
In all I keep or give, may I do my very best in everything I say and do, in harmony with you, only to love and bless, with joy, to serve and honor you. -
Anointing
$0.00 or moreAnointingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Jesus, as we try to follow on your journey toward the cross, we ourselves will come to suffer weakness, loneliness and loss. But in love you turn to heal us: you let go all goods and powers, gently sharing all our troubles, making them your own, not ours. Jesus, in your grace and mercy, you share all our pain and tears. You anoint us with your love and heal our wounds and calm our fears. So, like Mary with her perfume, we bring gifts of love to you, sharing death and resurrection, trusting lives will be made new. -
At Home In You
$0.00 or moreAt Home In YouAdd to cartOriginal lyrics, reflecting John 14.2, 6, set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We give you thanks, O loving God, Creator, for in your house are many rooms to dwell. Your Christ prepares a place for all your people where we are one, made holy and made well. Give us your life; make us your holy people, to shine with light, and your good news to tell. The place you make, O Jesus, for your people is not far off, but near—too near to see. It is the home of love within God’s loving, the place of peace where we are called to be. Bring us to you, that love may be our dwelling, at home in you, in love eternally. We give you thanks, O Loving Christ, companion; you are the truth, you are the life, the way. For when we share in love's divine communion, we are by grace alive in every way. Grant us to love, with you in blessed union, love be our faith, our truth, our life, our way. -
Behold the Lamb
$3.00 or moreBehold the LambAdd to cartOriginal song. A simple line; may be repeated as a continuing chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Come let us follow the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. -
Blessed
$3.00 or moreBlessedAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Includes version for four-part choir.
Lyrics: Dear God, receive me anew, mourning and poor in my soul, hungry for what makes me whole. Bless me by making me simple like you.
Refrain: Blessed are the ones who have nothing but God, for God and God alone shall fill their lives.
Mercy please grant me anew. Make my heart pure by your grace, humble, that I may see your face. Bless me by making me gentle like you. Refrain.
Courage please give me anew, peace in the world to make, and to suffer for your Gospel’s sake. Bless me by making me faithful to you. Refrain. -
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. -
By Your Grace
$0.00 or moreBy Your GraceAdd 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 so freely give the bread by which we live, that you revive our soul, by your Word, by your Word, and by your life in us make us whole. Our lives we give to you, by your grace, by your grace, our lives we give to you, by your grace. Lord, use the gifts we give to help your children live, that all may come and feast by your grace, by your grace, the greatest and the least, by your grace. God, help us die and rise, by your grace, by your grace, by Christ alive in us, die and rise; for when we finally do surrender all to you, you give us life anew, by your grace, by your grace you give eternal life, by your grace. -
Children of the Heavenly Mother
$0.00 or moreChildren of the Heavenly MotherAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Children of the Heavenly Father. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Children of the Heavenly Mother, gather gladly with each other, for you call us to your table bringing gifts as we are able. You have held us and caressed us, washed and taught us, healed and blessed us; now you cherish and adore us and you set our lives before us.* You have birthed us, and have freed us; with your body now you feed us. In this grace, O loving mother, we are one with one another. So we praise you, heavenly Mother, Holy Spirit, Christ our brother, All Creation sings together honor, thanks and praise for ever. * With communion: “and you set this table for us.” -
Christ, Begotten of the Love of God
$0.00 or moreChrist, Begotten of the Love of GodAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Of the Father's Love Begotten. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ, begotten of the love of God, here before the world’s first day, Christ the Alpha and Omega, Christ the source, the end, the way, Christ, the promised One, still coming: come, O Light, and show the way, evermore and evermore. Christ, we waken to your coming at an unexpected hour, bringing love and justice with you, with divine grace and power May our waiting be our praising; in our hope may courage flower, evermore and evermore. Christ, we bring our gifts to honor you, and we come on bended knee, offering our hearts and living, that to you the glory be. May your light adorn and guide us, now and in eternity, evermore and evermore. Christ, your glory fills the universe, blessing us with joyful mirth; and your grace renews our spirits, granting us a second birth. Come, O Christ, and rule among us, bringing peace to all the earth, evermore and evermore. Amen. -
Drawing Me
$3.00 or moreDrawing MeAdd to cartOriginal song. Also especially suitable for a solo (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Holy One, Mystery, how will you keep drawing me nearer to the heart within the heart? Nearer still, falling in, closer to the heart within, draw me God. I fall into your love. Lover, you are calling, you are drawing, I am falling into you in love. Deep in me there's a voice, there's a hunger, there's a choice, seeking something vital that is you. By your grace drawing me, may I fall eternally nearer to my center deep in you. Lover, you are calling, you are drawing, I am falling into you in love. -
God of Mystery (Abraham’s Song)
$0.00 or moreGod of Mystery (Abraham’s Song)Add 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
Genesis 22.1-14
Tune: Picardy - Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Lyrics: God of mystery, always calling, in my heart your love has stirred, calling me to follow humbly, and obey the voice I have heard, giving you my all, my treasure, trusting in your gracious Word.
God of mystery, always calling, move my spirit as I pray. Give me faith to change my living, paths I've followed all my days. Stay my hand from ill, providing grace to walk in bless'd new ways.
God of mystery, always calling, still is Isaac bound in me?— your Beloved, precious, but threatened by my old, unchecked piety? New, life-giving ways reveal, that your Child in me may be free.
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God, I surrender
$3.00 or moreGod, I surrenderAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
(Hear an audio clip in the Product Description.) Lyrics: God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. All my desires I give to you. Take them from me and make me new. God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. Trusting you wholly I follow you Take my life and make me new. God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. I am a seed that has died in you. Raise me to serve and make me new. -
Holy Child
$3.00 or moreHoly ChildAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. May be repeated as a chant. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: Holy child, holy child, grant this blessing from above: holy child, holy child, grant the joy of giving you my love. -
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
$3.00 or moreHow Lovely Is Your Dwelling PlaceAdd to cartOriginal song. Psalm 84. A dialogue between cantor/leader and congregation. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Congregation: How lovely is your dwelling place. We find a home in you, O God. Even the sparrow finds a place in the perfect sanctuary of your grace. Cantor: 1. My soul cries out to be with you. My heart and flesh sing out to you. Our love is in you. 2. Blessed are they who live in you, who put their trust in you alone. Our hope is in you. 3. You bless your pilgrims on their way. You turn our hearts to living springs. Our strength is in you. 4. A day within your house, O God, is better than a year without. Our joy is in you. 5. I'll be a servant in your house, rather than riches on my own. Our heart is in you. 6. There's nothing good that you withhold from those who live each day in you. Our home is in you. -
I Am Listening
$3.00 or moreI Am ListeningAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
May be used as a repeating chant. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: Speak, for I am listening. My heart is open. Speak, for I am listening, open to your word. -
I Am Open
$3.00 or moreI Am OpenAdd to cartOriginal song. Includes harmony part. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Dear gentle Jesus, I open to you the deepest chambers of my soul. My heart is open, wounded and broken. Heal and forgive and make me whole. Open, I am open, open to your grace. Beloved Jesus, my eyes are open; your healing touch restores my sight. Like open windows, they shine, and in flows your glory filling me with light. Open, I am open, open to your grace. My wounded Jesus. Your arms are open, our hurt and dying to embrace. When I would close them, hold my arms open, to be so loving by your grace. Open, I am open, open to your grace. Now risen Jesus, my life is open, a flower unfolding in the sun: by your light growing, and boldly showing the love of God, as you have done. Open, I am open, open to your grace. -
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. -
I Take Up My Cross
$3.00 or moreI Take Up My CrossAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Dialogue between soloist & Congregation. (Listen to it in the Product description below.) Lyrics: Letting go, I am held. I take up my cross and follow. 1. Jesus, you call to me, and draw me into your life. 2. Christ, I leave all behind, to follow you in love. 3. I yield my life to you, for you alone are God. 4. Loved with your costly love, I’ll suffer for the sake of love. 5. Christ, make my one desire to be to serve you in love. -
I Wait for Your Will
$3.00 or moreI Wait for Your WillAdd to cartOriginal song. May be sung as a dialogue between leader and congregation, or the congregation may sing the whole thing. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: I wait for your will. I wait for your will. I wait for your will, O God, for your loving will, your life-giving will. I wait for your will, O God. 1. All I desire to control I let go and place into your hands, my God. 2. Heal and protect and provide. Hear me and stay by my side. 3. You are my wisdom and strength. I will do your will alone, my God. 4. Help me to listen and wait, trusting your Spirit to move, my God. -
Into the Darkness
$3.00 or moreInto the DarknessAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on John 12.24 and Psalm 51. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Only the seed that has died and is buried lives to bear fruit, Jesus said. Lead me then into the darkness and dying, so you can raise me up from the dead. Jesus, help me die and rise. All of my living, my loves and desires, all of the things that I cling to, now I surrender to die and be buried. Raise me in following, serving you. Jesus, help me die and rise. Lead me to truth and have mercy and wash me deep in the dark of my being, a spirit like bread that is taken and broken: this is the death that is freeing. Jesus, help me die and rise. Give me a clean heart, a heart pure in spirit, willing and steadfast and made new. My life I lose; let your cross lift me up now. One joy restore to me: life in you. Jesus, help me die and rise. -
Jesus, Come Speak to Us
$0.00 or moreJesus, Come Speak to UsAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, you have gathered us, hungry for the Bread of Life, thirsty for waters of flowing grace. Our broken hearts are yours, open and waiting. We want to meet you face to face. Jesus, come speak to us. Sit beside the way with us. Draw from the well and refresh our souls. Shine light into our hearts, heal hidden wounds within, call forth our gifts and make us whole. Spirit, our Breath of Life, fill us with your grace and truth. Make us your vessels of love and light. Flow like a river, welling up within us with waters of eternal life. Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
John 4.1-42 -
Jesus, Gather Us
$0.00 or moreJesus, Gather UsAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Jesus, our brother, teacher like no other, gather us in and make us one. Grant us your Wisdom; help us your saints become. O Heart of Love, your will be done. Jesus, our healer, gentle redeemer, touch us and hold us close to you. Heal all the wounds we bring; feed our hearts’ hungering. Now speak your Word and make us new. Jesus, our faithful guide, come, journey at our side. Show us your way and shed your light. Now let your Spirit flow, that we your grace may know and shine with God’s own loving light. -
Jesus, Our Shepherd
$0.00 or moreJesus, Our ShepherdAdd 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: Jesus, our shepherd, gently you lead us to these green pastures’ sheltering place. By the still waters guide and refresh us; gather and feed us here with your grace. Jesus, our shepherd, gently you bless us, granting us peace and life-giving breath. Through the dark valleys still you are with us. Lead us to new life out of our death. Jesus, our shepherd, gently you call us. We hear your voice and follow with you. Lead us to serve you, loving each other, always receiving life that is new. -
Lead Me, My Shepherd
$0.00 or moreLead Me, My ShepherdAdd 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: Lead me, my shepherd, in paths that you show. Not by my own will, but yours, may I go. By the still waters of baptism’s grace dear God, renew me, and show me your face. God, may your rod and your staff be my guide. Even in death’s shadow walk by my side. Help me to listen, to trust and obey, going wherever you show me the way. God, in the face of my fears you provide, bidding me dine with my foes at my side. Lead me, wherever my path in life goes, trusting your mercy, that grace overflows. Dearest companion of blessing and weal, you who provide and forgive me and heal, still now, I listen and wait for what’s true: your voice that leads me to life, and to you. -
O Christ, My Way
$0.00 or moreO Christ, My WayAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of The Gift of Love (The Water Is Wide. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O Christ, my truth, my life, my way, I give my heart to you this day. I give myself, yes all of me, that where you are I too may be. O Christ, my way, the path I take is love alone, for your love’s sake. O be my heart, my strength and nerve, that I may love and bless and serve. O Christ, my truth, in you I see the God who dwells in you and me. But God remains yet far above until I live in humble love. O Christ, my life, I give my heart, for when in you I take my part and share your love, your work and strife, I share in full your risen life. -
O Jesus, Wounded Sovereign
$0.00 or moreO Jesus, Wounded SovereignAdd 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: O Sacred Head Now Wounded Lyrics: Dear Jesus, you who suffer and walk among the poor whose hearts and lives are broken, whose faith is still unsure: despised, accused and battered, you do not say a word. So powerless, yet loving!— you are my Sovereign Lord. You bear no arms but loving, no threats nor flags unfurled. You wear no kingly robes, but the sorrows of the world. Yet your forgiveness conquers each worldly rule and reign, and rises, whole, undaunted, from evil, death and pain. While emperors abuse you, and people shrug or stare, and dark injustice troubles the ones for whom you care, your mighty grace arises, and hidden from our sight, enfolds all living beings in your triumphant light. O Jesus, wounded Sovereign, I pray, give me the nerve without this world’s armor to love and bless and serve. My master and companion, rule all eternity with grace and deep compassion, and, Lord, begin with me. -
O Sovereign Love
$0.00 or moreO Sovereign LoveAdd 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: Amazing Grace Lyrics: Beloved, you who guard and guide and give for every need, reign in my heart, O Sovereign Christ; direct each thought and deed. O Sovereign Love, my root, my sun, my purpose and my peace, I spurn the world's vain, anxious rule, and trust your Law of Grace. The Empire of your justice, God, with mercy's clear command shall be my home; my loyalty is to no lesser land. In humble and obedient thanks I pledge my life to you, to join your work of justice, God, to make the world anew. Reign in my heart, O Christ, my Rule. In faith I am compelled to serve you, who by love alone have conquered all the world. -
Return, My Soul
$0.00 or moreReturn, My SoulAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Return, my soul, from all your hungry wandering, your fearful search for comfort and control. Let go my grasp of things apart from God, for God alone can heal and hold my soul. Return to God, for God alone will love me, and give me life, and bless and make me whole. Return, my soul, from all the things that dull me, that soothe my sense, but leave my sin in place. My broken heart, return from tricks and bargains; turn to the One who meets me face to face. Return to God. Each moment turn again; receive unending love and life and grace. I turn, O God, to you who love with patience. You walk beside me, though I cannot see. You are my life in dry and weary deserts, my spring of life that flows eternally. I turn to you, from false desire and grasping, and letting go, I find that you hold me. -
We Lift Our Spirits Up
$0.00 or moreWe Lift Our Spirits UpAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of SURSUM CORDA, ... or Abide with Me... or Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We lift our spirits up to you, O God, O Love, our morning sun, our living breath. You are our first and final dwelling, God: receive our prayers, receive our life and death. Our grateful thanks we give you for your care that bears us through the challenges we face, for nothing we desire can compare with your compassion and your healing grace. O God, we open wide our longing soul: breathe into us your mercy and delight. We give to you all that we would control, make us pure vessels of your love and light. -
Woeful Cross
$3.00 or moreWoeful CrossAdd to cartWoeful cross, saddest wood, death in me of all that’s good, I confess. Mother/Father, bless. Mercy. Original song. Most suitable for Good Friday. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Holy cross, mystery, love from fear of death set free. Sin’s dark lie. Here I die. Mercy. Gentle Christ on the cross, for our life your own life’s loss. You forgive, and we live. Mercy. Our own cross calling us to your love and gentleness: may we live, as you give, mercy. -
Your Will Be Done
$3.00 or moreYour Will Be DoneAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Father, take my willfulness. I surrender it to you grace alone. Mother, be my willingness. I can only ask: Your will be done. Jesus, take my brokenness. I surrender it to you grace alone. Jesus, heal my brokenness. I can only ask: Your will be done. Spirit, take my empty hands. I surrender them to you grace alone. Spirit, with my empty hands I can only ask: Your will be done.