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 such hymns are old/traditional - but where possible a variety of styles and genres are included. A small selection of hymns which are still copyright may also be included, if they are particularly relevant.
Suggestions about other free-to-use hymns that could be included are welcome: leave a message in the Comments box near the bottom of the page.
Readings
First:Hosea 11:1-11 - The Lord promises to return the people of Israel to their homes, despite them having turned away from him.
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Ecclesiastes 1: 2; 12-14; 2:18-23 - Vanity of vanities. A man who has laboured must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled. What does he gain for his toil?
Psalm:
89 - Lord you have been our refuge from one generation to the next / You turn men back into dust / You sweep men away like a dream / Make us know the shortness of our life / In the morning, fill us with your love.
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94 - O that today you would listen to his voice, harden not your hearts / Come ring out our joy to the Lord / Come in, let us kneel and bend low
Psalm:
89 - Lord you have been our refuge from one generation to the next / You turn men back into dust / You sweep men away like a dream / Make us know the shortness of our life / In the morning, fill us with your love.
OR
94 - O that today you would listen to his voice, harden not your hearts / Come ring out our joy to the Lord / Come in, let us kneel and bend low
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107 - O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.
Second: Colossians 3:1-11 - Let your thoughts be on heavenly things - when Christ is revealed, you will be revealed in your glory with him.
Gospel: Luke 12 : 13-21 - Parable of the rich fool, who built extra barns to store his wealth, but died before he could use them.
See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.
Second: Colossians 3:1-11 - Let your thoughts be on heavenly things - when Christ is revealed, you will be revealed in your glory with him.
Gospel: Luke 12 : 13-21 - Parable of the rich fool, who built extra barns to store his wealth, but died before he could use them.
Themes
Looking towards heaven and eternal life. Asking what is important to us, and what we value.Free-use artworks
See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.Free-use hymns
- A Tender Conscience - Wesley
- All Creatures of our God and King
- All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
- All my Hope On God is Founded - Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- All People that on Earth do Dwell
- All That Thrills My Soul (Who can cheer the heart like Jesus) - Thoro Harris (1874-1955)
- Alleluia Alleluia Hearts to Heaven and Voices Raise - Wordsworth (1807-1885)
- Be Thou my Vision
- Before the Throne of God Above (The Advocate) - Charitie Lees Smith Bancroft (1841-1923)
- Blessed Assurance
- Christ From Whom All Blessings Flow - Wesley
- Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- Close to Thee - Crosby
- Come Let Us With Our Lord Arise - Wesley
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
- Draw Me Nearer (I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice) - Crosby
- Fight the Good Fight with all thy Might
- Firmly I Believe and Truly
- For the Beauty of the Earth
- For the Bread Which you have Broken - Bensen
- God is Love: Let Heaven Adore Him - Rees (1874-1939) - free use in the USA
- God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free use in the USA
- God Will Take Care of You (Nunca Desmayes) - Civilla D. Martin (1866-1948)
- Great is Thy Faithfulness - free use in the USA
- Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
- Hail Thou Once Despised Jesus - Toplady
- Hark my Soul it is The Lord - Cowper
- He that is Down Needs Fear no Fall - John Bunyan (1628-1688)
- He Waiteth to Be Gracious (Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Holy God we Praise Thy Name
- How Shall I Sing That Majesty - Mason (1646?-1694)
- I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
- I Surrender All (All to Jesus I Surrender)
- If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee - Winkworth, trans from Neumark
- Immortal Love for Ever Full - Whittier
- In Christ there is no East or West - William A. Dunkerley (pseudonym John Oxenham, 1852-1941)
- In Heavenly Love Abiding - Waring
- Jerusalem the Golden - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Jesus Lives Your Terrors Now - Cox, trans from Gellert
- Jesus Priceless Treasure - Catherine Winkworth, trans from Franck
- Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
- Judge Eternal, Throned In Splendor - Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
- Leave It There (If the world from you withhold of its silver and its gold) - Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933)
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Alleluias of St James)
- Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Milton
- Lord in the Strength of Grace - Wesley
- Lord, I have Made Thy Word my Choice - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- Make me A Captive Lord - Matheson
- Master Speak Thy Servant Heareth - Havergal
- My God Accept my Heart This Day
- My God, How Wonderful Thou Art - Faber
- My Song is Love Unknown
- Nothing Between my Soul and my Savior - Tindley
- Now Thank we all our God
- O Breathe on Me O Breath of God
- O Come Let Us Sing to the Lord - Unknown, from the Scottish Psalter, 1650
- O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
- O God of Earth and Altar
- O Jesus I Have Promised
- O Jesus Joy of Loving Hearts / Jesus Thou Joy of Loving Hearts - Palmer, trans from Bernard of Clairvaux
- O Lord Your Tenderness - Kendrick
- O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
- O Merciful Creator Hear - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness - Monsell (1811-1875)
- Out of the Depths / From Depths of Woe I Cry to Thee (De profundis)
- Resurrection Song / Sing with all the Saints in Glory - Irons
- Revive Us Again - Mackay (1839-1885)
- Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
- Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling - Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)
- Son of God Eternal Savior - Lowry
- Take my Life and Let it Be
- Take Time to be Holy - William Dunn Longstaff (1822-1894)
- Take up Thy Cross / Take up Your Cross (the Saviour Said)
- Teach Me my God and King - Herbert
- The Church's One Foundation
- The Day of Resurrection (Earth tell it out abroad) - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- The Golden Gates are Lifted Up - Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895)
- The Whole Bright World Rejoices Now - Percy Dearmer (1867-1936), trans from Friedrich von Spee
- The Worldling (My barns are full, my stores increase) - John Newton (1725-1807)
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
- Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus - Lemmel (1863-1961) - free use in the USA
- Victory in Jesus - Bartlett
- Wake Awake for Night is Flying (Zion Hears the Watchmen / Sleeper’s Awake)
- We Give Thee but Thine Own - How
- When all Thy Mercies O my God - Addison
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
- Woke up This Morning - Unknown
- Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Hymns which may still be copyright
- A Spendthrift Lover Is The Lord - Troeger
- All the Riches of His Grace
- As the Deer - Nystrom
- Bigger Barns - Gillette
- Change my Heart O God - Espinosa
- Christ is the World's True Light - Briggs (1875-1959)
- Christ You are the Fullness - Polman
- He gave me Beauty for Ashes
- Heaven Is in My Heart (The kingdom of our God is here) - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950)
- Heaven Shall Not Wait - Bell (b. 1949), Maule (1958-2019)
- How Long, O Lord? - Barbara Woollett (b 1937)
- In Christ Alone - Getty / Townsend
- Knowing You (All I once held dear) - Kendrick
- Love is His Word (Richer than gold is the love of my Lord) - Luke Connaughton (1917-1979)
- More Precious Than Silver - DeShazo
- My Worth Is Not in What I Own - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950), Keith and Kirsten Getty
- Praise with Joy the World's Creator - Bell
- Refiner's Fire
- Restless is the Heart - Farrell
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