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A Safe, Healing Place
$0.00 or moreA Safe, Healing PlaceAdd 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 living, we truly are blessed: you are our home and our soul’s gentle nest. Even the swallows shall find in your arms safety and beauty and rest from all harm. As you have welcomed us into this space, help us find others who long for your grace, those who seek shelter and all those who roam. Make of our living a warm, welcome home You have forgiven and blessed us today, healed us and raised us to go on our way: send us in courage with trust in your grace, to make of this world a safe, healing place. -
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. -
Becoming Whole
$3.00 or moreBecoming WholeAdd to cartOriginal song. Several verses may be used, or one verse repeated. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: We are a broken people becoming whole again. We are a wounded people being healed again. We are a hungry people being fed again. We are a wandering people coming home again. We are a groaning people giving birth again. ... And more... -
Bread of Justice
$0.00 or moreBread of JusticeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA.* Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God of justice and compassion, you who freed the Hebrew slaves, you who feed the poor and powerless, you whose great forgiveness saves, now you feed us, poor in spirit, through the grace of your dear Son; now you call us, now you send us. May your loving will be done. Feed us, God, the bread of justice: give us hearts to see and care. We are one with all who suffer. They are yours; now send us there. Knowing not if we shall triumph, give us faith to never cease; give us strength to boldly witness, seeking justice, making peace. Feed us, God, the wine of courage, faithfully to do your will. Now we drink of resurrection, facing death but steadfast still. To this world of heartless plunder, send us in a different vein: by our fearless, gentle healing, bearing witness to your Reign. * Or Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, Ode to Joy, or even What a Friend We Have In Jesus. -
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. -
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. -
Christ, Ruler of All Things
$0.00 or moreChrist, Ruler of All ThingsAdd 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: ST. ELIZABETH (Fairest Lord Jesus)
Lyrics: Christ, Ruler of all things, what is seen and unseen, your love reigns; your grace is sure. Beneath our fear and strife, death fails to conquer life: your tender mercy still endures.
Christ, Ruler of our hearts, come and reign within us. Make us comrades, siblings, friends. Your love be our life, our only power, that gives us life that never ends.
Christ, Ruler of the earth, bring your gentle justice: your Realm come, your will be done. Heal all oppression; fill us with mercy, as faithful as the rising sun.
Christ, Ruler of all things, of what is and is to come, Risen One, our song we raise. Rule in our living; guide us with tender love. Your grace in us will be your praise. -
Do Justice
$3.00 or moreDo JusticeAdd to cartOriginal song. Micah 6.8 May be repeated as a chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. O, help us humbly live your justice, your love, your mercy. -
Feast On Mercy
$3.00 or moreFeast On MercyAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between congregation and song leader. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: May not my comfort cloud my eyes to see the needy at my door. But, poor in spirit, may I rise, and feast on mercy with the poor. Poor Christ, I confess: I cling to all I posses. With grace, open my eyes to see the poor who bear your image to my door. My my privilege and place not blind me to my need for grace. With empty hands I come, for I am sure with grace, O God, you feed the poor. As one who by your hand is fed I hunger now to share your bread, to see that justice for the poor is done, for at your table we are one. -
Feed My Sheep
$3.00 or moreFeed My SheepAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on John 21.15-19. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: “Feed my sheep. Tend my lambs. Do you love me? Reach your hands. Bear your cross faithfully. Give you life and follow me. Sight restored,wounded healed, God's deep love is thus revealed. God sent me: I send you, love, my new commend, to do. Serve the poor and the weak, help them find their voice to speak. Evil turned, mercy raised, love and justice are my praise. Peace be yours from this hour, and the Holy Spirit's power. Raised from death, born anew, live in me and I in you.” -
For Households
$0.00 or moreFor HouseholdsAdd to cartA song about domestic violence. Original lyrics set to the tune of Blest Be the Tie that Binds. (Download includes a version set to DETROIT, Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: For homes where love is shared we give you thanks, O Lord, where all your children hear your grace and know they are adored. We pray for homes where fear and hurt and loneliness stay. For those abused, unsure, not free, your blessing, God, we pray. As when from Egypt slaves escaped and crossed the Sea, God, make a way and go with those who are becoming free. God, give us hearts to speak, to break the silent shield that covers the hurt, protecting the sin: so violence may be healed. God help your church to be a home, a healing place, where all are free and whole and blest and honored in your grace. -
Freedom Feast
$0.00 or moreFreedom FeastAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Let Us Break Bread Together. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, we thank you, for you have set us free. (2x) When we come to this feast, from the greatest to the least, Oh, Love, you set your people free. God, where there is injustice, set them free. (2x) When we come to this feast, from the greatest to the least, Oh, Love, you set your people free. God, now use us to set your people free. (2x) When we come to this feast, from the greatest to the least, Oh, Love, you set your people free. -
Give Us Eyes
$0.00 or moreGive Us EyesAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of EBENEEZER (Once To Every Man and Nation). (Alternate tunes: “Ode to Joy,” or “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.”) Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Give us eyes, O God of justice, to see clearly as you see: not to turn away but bravely face oppression’s misery. Steel our hearts to see injustice, and to feel our siblings’ pain. Give us sorrow; give us rage; but let our anger be humane. Give us eyes, O God of mercy, to see evil as you see: holding victim and oppressor in its jaws, and neither free. God, refine our wrath and grief with yours ‘till only love remains. Give us loving rage and courage to step up and break the chains. Give us eyes, O God of wholeness, to see all the love you sow, and by grace to set it free: in every person let it flow. Let our wrath be flames of love and not the burn of power denied, till we gently, firmly, mightily pry the gates of justice wide. -
God of all Gentleness
$0.00 or moreGod of all GentlenessAdd 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: Be Thou My Vision
Lyrics: God of all gentleness, God of pure love, you do not watch us from heights far above, you are no tyrant, but patient and mild, present with grace in the poor, in the child.
God of all mercy, may we be the ones bearing your love to your daughters and sons, not out of pity but humbly, with grace, for in the poor we see your human face.
God of all justice, give us hearts to care, hope to free prisoners of fear and despair, courage to challenge the ways that oppress, deep love to reach out to heal and to bless.
God of compassion, your Spirit now pour into us all, for it’s we who are poor, hungry for justice, for healing and grace, and for full life for the whole human race. -
God We Are Broken
$0.00 or moreGod We Are BrokenAdd 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, we are broken, for all flesh is weak. Grant us the healing and peace that we seek. For all that pains us, beyond our control, grant us your healing, our bodies made whole. God, we are broken; our hearts are not one. Sometimes it seems that our souls come undone. Bring us renewal and calm in our soul. Grant us your healing and make our hearts whole. God, we are broken: for families and friends suffer when love fails and faithfulness ends. May your forgiveness and grace play its role. Grant us your healing; make covenants whole. God, we are broken, for many are poor, and we ignore those who lie by our door. God, may your justice like great rivers roll. Grant us your healing; make all people whole. God, we are broken for hate and all war wound us so we are not free anymore. Make us one people from pole to pole. Grant us your healing, and make the world whole. -
Isaiah 61
$0.00 or moreIsaiah 61Add to cartOriginal lyrics—Isaiah 61.1-4— set to the tune of O Little Town of Bethlehem. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: The Spirit of our loving God is strong in us and sure, sent in God’s grace to be God’s face with good news for the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, and set the captives free, and to proclaim in God’s own name their deep new liberty. We shall provide for those who mourn and broken lives repair, for God demands that in our hands God’s justice we shall bear. As earth brings forth new green things, our God will cause to rise the righteousness that all shall bless, the dawn that greets our eyes. -
Lead On, O God of Justice
$0.00 or moreLead On, O God of JusticeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Lead On, O King Eternal. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Lead on, O God of justice. Your vision calls us forth: to life where all are cherished, and know their sacred worth, where all have what they need to be who they can be, and all know their belonging and live in peace and free. Lead on, O God of justice, as Jesus shows the way, and gives to us your Spirit, and guides us day by day. Your courage and compassion, your love flow through our veins for those we cast aside, who bear oppression’s chains. Lead on, O God of justice. Your fiery pillar burn in us to heal the world, to make injustice turn. To change our evil systems your Spirit sets us free. Though long the road and tiring, you bear us faithfully. -
Magnificat (Luke 1.46-55)
$0.00 or moreMagnificat (Luke 1.46-55)Add to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What Child Is This. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: My soul sings out in joy to God, who’s favored me, so lowly. The Mighty One has kindly done great things, for God is holy. This, this is grace outlaid, God's mercy in the promise made, Praise, praise, the Faithful One, and magnify our savior! God brings the powerful down from thrones while lifting up the lowly. God feeds the poor, and the rich no more receive, but the hungry solely. Praise! Praise the Mighty one for all the things that God has done Love, love will honor God, who promises mercy forever -
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. -
Raise Up Your People
$0.00 or moreRaise Up Your PeopleAdd 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, you who raised up your Christ from the grave. Raise up your people and bless us and save! Help us be mindful our life is in you when we surrender you raise us up new. When all the powers of evil assail, not by our strength but your grace we prevail: when we are lowly and gentle in love power is not ours but flows from above. Give us the faith, God, to fearlessly live, love with our whole hearts and bless and forgive. Your Word is borne, God, in all that we do; in our forgiveness is Christ raised anew. -
Send Us, Jesus
$0.00 or moreSend Us, JesusAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Send us, Jesus, in your spirit, held in your love, to this torn and troubled world, still held in your love. When despair and pain have found us, still your mercy wraps around us, giving hope that may astound us, held in your love. Send us, Jesus, bearing witness, held in your love, present with the poor and broken, held in your love. Evil looms, so cruel, deceiving, leaving victims shorn and grieving; still we will not cease believing, held in your love. Send us with the power of healing, held in your love. Give us courage, strength and wisdom, held in your love. To the selfish powers, oppressing, may we stand, your love expressing, facing fear with grace and blessing, held in your love. Send us for the sake of living, held in your love. Give us grace to be forgiving, held in your love. Facing evil's vile rejection, fearless love is resurrection. May we be your best reflection, held in your love. -
When Fear Lives Close
$0.00 or moreWhen Fear Lives CloseAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Tallis' Canon or Gift of Love. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We pray for those who live in fear, where secret hurt and shame live near, that they may know your loving grace, and find their way to freedom’s space. And God of love, we pray for those whose inner darkness overflows, that those who wound, control or use may be healed, too, their demons lose. We pray, O God, that we may be your gentle ones who set them free, with deep respect, with love and prayer, create a world of gentle care.