Download Audio Now calm your heart and dry each tear, on such death none should look with fear; a faithful Christian now has won, and with this death true life’s begun. These bones, now dead, again shall feel new warmth and vigor through them steal; and reunited they shall soar on high to live forevermore. […]
Download Audio When aimless violence takes those we love, when random death strikes childhood’s promise down, when wrenching loss becomes our daily bread, we know, O God, you leave us not alone. When passing years rob sight and strength and mind yet fail to still a strongly beating heart, and grief becomes the fabric of […]
Download Audio I’m but a stranger here, heaven is my home; earth is a desert drear, heaven is my home; danger and sorrow stand round me on every hand; heaven is my fatherland, heaven is my home. What though the tempest rage, heaven is my home; short is my pilgrimage, heaven is my home; and […]
Download Audio Church of God, elect and glorious, holy nation, chosen race, called as God’s own special people, royal priests and heirs of grace; know the purpose of your calling, show to all his mighty deeds, tell of love that knows no limits, grace that meets all human needs. God has called you out of […]
Download Audio The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ, her Lord; she is his new creation by water and the Word. From heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. Elect from every nation, yet over all the earth; […]
Download Audio Built on the Rock the Church shall stand even when steeples are falling. Crumbled have spires in every land; bells still are chiming and calling, calling the young and old to rest, but above all the soul distressed, longing or rest everlasting. Surely in temples made with hands God, the Most High, is […]
Download Audio Glorious things of you are spoken, Zion, city of our God; he whose word cannot be broken formed you for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake your sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, you may smile at all your foes. See, the streams of living waters, springing […]
Download Audio God is here! As we your people meet to offer praise and prayer, may we find in fuller measure what it is in Christ we share. Here, as in the world around us, all our varied skills and arts wait the coming of the Spirit into open minds and hearts. Here are symbols […]
Download Audio Your kingdom, O God, is my glorious treasure, my pearl of incomparable worth. Its value exceeds every standard of measure, surpassing the wealth of the earth. Lord, give me your grace and the power of the Spirit to value this treasure aright that, never allured by the world, I inherit your kingdom of […]
Download Audio In Christ there is no east or west, in him no south or north, but one great fellowship of love throughout the hole wide earth. With God there is no tribe or race; in him we all are one. He loves us as his children through our faith in his ear Son. So, […]