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Song Lyrics and Readings

Worship Song Lyrics and Readings

May 5, 2024

Call to Worship

It is good to praise the Lord and make music to Your name, O Most High, proclaiming Your love in the morning and Your faithfulness at night.
 

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come Thou Fount of every blessing

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace

Streams of mercy never ceasing

Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above

Praise His name I’m fixed upon it

Name of God’s redeeming love.

 

Hitherto Thy love has blest me

Thou hast brought me to this place

And I know Thy hand will lead me

Safely home by Thy good grace

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God

He, to rescue me from danger

Bought me with His precious blood.

 

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I’m constrained to be

Let Thy goodness like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to Thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it

Prone to leave the God I love

Here’s my heart, O take and seal it

Seal it for Thy courts above.

 

Across the Lands

You’re the Word of God the Father

From before the world began

Ev’ry star and ev’ry planet

Has been fashioned by Your hand

All creation holds together

By the power of Your voice

Let the skies declare Your glory

Let the land and seas rejoice!

 

You’re the author of creation

You’re the Lord of ev’ry man

And Your cry of love rings out

Across the lands

 

Yet You left the gaze of angels

Came to seek and save the lost

And exchanged the joy of heaven

For the anguish of a cross

With a prayer You fed the hungry

With a word You stilled the sea

Yet how silently You suffered

That the guilty may go free

 

With a shout You rose victorious

Wresting victory from the grave

And ascended into heaven

Leading captives in Your wake

Now You stand before the Father

Interceding for Your own

From each tribe and tongue and nation

You are leading sinners home

 

For the Cause

For the cause of Christ the King

We give our lives an offering

‘Til all the earth resounds

With ceaseless praise

To the Son

For the cause of Christ we go

With joy to reap with faith to sow

As many see

And many put their trust in the Son

 

Christ we proclaim

The Name above every name

For all creation

Ev’ry nation

God’s salvation

Through the Son

 

For the King once lifted high

To cries of rage of crucify

Endured the cross

As every sin was laid

On the Son

To the King who conquered death

To free the poor and the oppressed

For lasting peace

For life and liberty

In the Son

 

Let it be my life’s refrain

To live is Christ to die is gain

Deny myself take up my cross

And follow the Son

 

Confession of Sin
Forgive us our sins, O Lord.
Forgive us the sins of our youth and the sins of our age,
The sins of our soul and the sins of our body,
Our secret and our whispering sins,
Our presumptuous and our careless sins,
The sins we have done to please ourselves, the sins we have done to please others.
Forgive us the sins we know, and the sins we know not;
Forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all because of Your great goodness.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
 

Assurance of Pardon
Through Jesus Christ forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to us.
In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.

 

I Will Boast Only in the Cross

I will boast only in the cross

Where my Savior died for me.

Nothing else, no other love,

Goes so far and runs so deep.

 

I will boast only in the cross.

See His head, His hands and feet.

Scars of grace, the scars that heal.

He broke the curse and set me free.

 

Only One took the nails.

Only One tore the veil.

Only One spotless Lamb.

I will boast only in the cross.

 

I will boast only in the cross,

The Father’s love at Calvary.

My sin erased; my debt He paid.

This is my hope, the song I sing.

This is my hope, the song I sing.

 

Blessing
O Creator and Mighty God, you have promised strength for the weak, rest for the laborers, light for the way, grace for the trials, help from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.
O Creator and Mighty God, help us to continue in Your promise.

 

 

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