Most are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free) meaning the words can be copied and sung to at least one tune with no concerns about copyright or performance licensing - sometimes in a limited setting. Many of these hymns are old / traditional - but where possible a variety of styles and genres are included.
A small number of hymns that may still be copyright are also included, if they are particularly appropirate.
Readings
First: Ezekiel 33: 7-9 - The prophet explains that God will hold him responsible for failing to pass on information from God.Psalm 94 - O that today you would listen to his voice, harden not your heart / Come ring out our joy to the Lord / Come in and let us bow and bend low.
Second: Romans 13 8-10 - All the commandments are summed up in a single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself ... love is the answer to every one of the commandments.
Gospel: Matthew 18: 15-20 - Jesus outlines a process for resolving conflicts in the community - approaching the offender first and then the elders. ... "Where two or three meet in my name, I am there."
Themes
Christ's on-going presence in the world. Relationships. Reconciliation. Love. Being faithful to God's word.Free-use artwork
Free-use hymns
- All People that on Earth do Dwell
- Beloved let us Love: Love is of God - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
- Blessed be the Ties that Bind / Blest be the Tie that Binds
- Christ is Made the Sure Foundation
- Come Ye (You) Sinners Poor and Needy (I will arise and go to Jesus)
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - John Greenleaf Whitter (1807-1892)
- Draw us in the Spirit’s Tether
- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken - John Newton (1725-1807)
- God is Love His the Care
- Holy Holy Holy (early in the morning) - Heber
- How Can I Keep from Singing (My life flows on in endless song)
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say - Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
- In Christ there is no East or West - William A. Dunkerley (pseudonym John Oxenham, 1852-1941)
- Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
- Lord of all Hopefulness
- Love Divine all Loves Excelling
- My God Loves Me
- O Breathe on Me O Breath of God - Edwin Hatch (1835-1889)
- O Come and Sing to the God, the Lord - adapt. From The Scottish Psalter
- O God Our Help in Ages Past - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- Rejoice the Lord is King
- Soul of my Saviour (Savior)
- The King of Love my Shepherd Is - George Herbert (1593-1633)
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Frederick W Faber ( (1814-1863)
- We Walk By Faith
- What Wondrous Love - Unknown (pre 1811)
Hymns which may still be copyright
- A New Commandment - Roy Crabtree (c 1930)
- A Touching Place (Christ's is the world in which we move) - John L Bell (b. 1949)
- And They'll Know we are Christians by our Love (We are One in the Spirit) - Peter Scholtes (1938-2009)
- As Gentle as Silence / Oh the love of my Lord is the essence - Estelle White (1925-2011)
- As It Is in Heaven - Matt Maher (b. 1974)
- Be God’s - Danielle Rose (2001)
- Bring Forth the Kingdom (You are salt for the earth) - Haugen - Marty Haugen (b. 1950)
- Called to Shed Light - Nick Fawcett (b. 1957)
- Can We Love? - Tom Booth
- Christ be our Light - Bernadette Farrell (b 1957)
- Diverse in Culture, Nation, Race - Ruth Carolyn Duck (1947-2024)
- Embrace the Universe with Love - June Boyce-Tillman (b. 1943)
- Faith, Hope and Love - Stephen Dean (b. 1948)
- Here in Christ we Gather (God is Love) - James Quinn (1919-2010)
- Hold Us Together - Matt Maher (b. 1974)
- Hymn to Christ the Companion (Where two or three are gathered in the name of Christ) - Colin Gibson (1933–2022)
- If There is this Love Among You - Martin Barry Dianne Murden
- If Today You Hear His Voice - Jesse Manibusan (b. 1958)
- Let Not Your Hearts Be Hardened - Steven C. Warner (b. 1954)
- Let There be Love Shared Among Us - Dave Bilbrough (b. 1965)
- Lord Whose Love Through Humble Service - Bayly
- Lord You Give the Great Commission - Rowthorn (1934)
- Love Never Fails You - Brandon Heath (b. 1978)
- Love One Another - Habjan - Germaine Habjan (b 1943 - ?)
- Love the Lord Your God (Love round) - Stewart
- Many and One - Sarah Hart and Steve Angrisano and Dwight Liles
- Micah's Theme (Hear then what Yahweh asks of you) - Anne Kelly
- Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- Oh Lord, All the World Belongs to You - Patrick Apleford (1925-2018)
- Oh, Christ, be the center of our lives - Charlie Hall, Matt Redman (b. 1974)
- Shine the Light - Matthew Leon, Michael Paul Leon, David Stanton
- This Is My Will - James Quinn (1919-2010)
- Those who Love and Those who Labour - Geoffrey Dearmer (1893 –1996)
- We Are Many, We Are One - Nancy Bodsworth
- We Gather in Love - John Angotti
- Whatever You Do - Gillette
- Where is Love and Loving Kindness - Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957)
- Where Two or Three (of you gather) - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950)
- Where Two or Three are Gathered - Liam Lawton
- Your Love Is Finer Than Life - Marty Haugen (b. 1950)
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