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. Many such hymns are old/traditional - but where possible a variety of styles / genres are included.
A small selection of hymns that are still copyright, but are a particularly good fit for the day's readings, are also included. Many of these hymns are old / traditional - but where possible a variety of styles and genres are included.
Readings
First:Isaiah 65:17-25 - For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth ... Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard ... The wolf and the lamb shall feed together ...They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain
OR
Malachi 4:1-2a 4:1 See, the day is coming ... when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble ... But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.
Second: II Thessalonians 3:6-13 - Do not let anyone have food if they do not work.
Gospel: Luke 21: 5-19 - Jesus speaks to the disciples about the end-times - and of all that will happen beforehand - and promises that their endurance will win their lives.
Themes
The second coming / God's triumph / Christ's overcoming of evil. The Day of the Lord. RevelationFree-use hymns
- A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God - Hedge, Luther
- A Safe Stronghold Our God is Still - Carlyle
- Abide with Me
- All Creatures of our God and King
- All my Hope On God is Founded - Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- All Ye Nations / All You Nations Sing Out Your Joy - Lucien Deiss (1921-2007)
- Arise my Soul Arise - Wesley
- Blessed Quietness - Ferguson
- Christ From Whom All Blessings Flow - Wesley
- Christ is our Corner-Stone - Chandler
- Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Wesley
- Come Down O Love Divine
- Come Labour On - Borthwick (1813-1897)
- Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Come ye Thankful People Come
- Come Ye that Love the Lord - Watts
- Day of Judgment! Day of Wonder! - Newton
- Father Most Holy Merciful and Tender - Percy Dearmer (1867-1936)
- Father, I Know that All my Life - Anna Letitia Waring (1823-1910)
- Fight the Good Fight with all thy Might
- Forth in Thy Name O Lord I Go - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Freedom Is Coming - Unknown
- From All that Dwell Belowthe Skies - Watts
- From Thee All Skill and Science Flow - Kingsley (1819-1875)
- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
- God Will Take Care of You (Nunca Desmayes) - Civilla D. Martin (1866-1948)
- God, whose Almighty Word - Marriott
- God's Son Came to Bless Us - Winkworth
- Great is Thy Faithfulness - free-use in the USA
- Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
- Hark What A Sound and Too Divine For Hearing - Myers
- Help us to Help Each Other Lord - Wesley
- How Blest are They Who Hear God’s Word - Smeby
- How Firm A Foundation - Keith / Keen
- I Cannot Tell (why he whom angels worship)
- I Love to Tell the Story - Hankey / Fischer
- I Sing the Mighty Power of God
- I Will Trust in the Lord - Unknown
- If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee - Winkworth
- It is Well With my Soul (When peace like a river)
- Jerusalem the Golden - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Jesu, Still Lead On - Borthwick
- Jesus United By Thy Grace - Wesley
- Leaning On the Everlasting Arms - Hoffman (1839-1929)
- Let all the World in Every Corner Sing
- Let me be Thine Forever - Loy
- Let us Ever Walk With Jesus - Rimbach
- Lift Every Voice and Sing - John R Johnson (1873–1954)
- Living to Serve the Cause of Christ (My gracious Lord, I own Thy right) - Doddridge
- Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending
- Lord Keep us Steadfast in Thy Word - Winkworth
- Lord of all Hopefulness
- Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal
- My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ the Solid Rock) - Mote
- My Lord, What a Morning - unknown
- Near to the Heart of God - McAfee (1866–1944)
- Now Thank we all our God
- O Crucified Redeemer - Rees
- O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
- O Freedom - Unknown
- O Jesus I Have Promised
- O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
- O Morning Star How Fair and Bright - Winkworth
- O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- O Word of God Incarnate - How
- Of the Father's Love Begotten - Neale / Baker
- On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand - Stennett
- Onward Christian Soldiers
- Praise to the Lord the Almighty
- Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart - Plumbtree
- Rise, Ye Children of Salvation - Bevan
- Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
- Sing to the King (Sing we the King who is coming to reign) - Horne
- Songs of Praise the Angels Sing / Sang - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Stand By Me (When the storms of life are raging) - Tindley
- Stand Up and Bless the Lord - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus - Duffield (1818-1888)
- Standing on the Promises of Christ my King - Carter
- Strengthen For Service Lord The Hands - Humphreys
- Take up Thy Cross / Take up Your Cross (the Saviour Said)
- The Church's One Foundation
- The King Shall Come when Morning Dawns
- The Lord our Righteousness - Wesley
- The Lord Will Come and Not be Slow - Milton
- The Lord's my Shepherd - Scottish Psalter translation
- There's a Light Upon the Mountains - Alfred Henry Burton (1840-1930)
- Through the Love of God our Saviour - Peters
- Thy kingdom Come, O Father, Hear our Prayer - Margaret R. Seebach (1875-1948)
- To God be the Glory
- When we All Get to Heaven / Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus
- Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life - North
- Wonderful Words of Life - Bliss
- Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem - Robert Campbell (1814-1868)
- Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Hymns which may still be copyright
- All my days (Beautiful Saviour) - Stuart Townend (b. 1963)
- All Who Love and Serve Your City - Routley
- All Praise to Thee, for thou, O King Divine - Tucker
- By Gracious Powers so Wonderfully Sheltered - Green
- Fear not for I Have Redeemed You - Page-Clark (b 1941)
- For the Healing of the Nations - Fred Kaan (1929-2009)
- Great is the Darkness That covers the Earth - Coates / Richards
- Have Faith in God my Heart - Rees
- How Great is our God - Tomlin, Reeves and Cash
- My Soul finds Rest in God Alone - Townend
- O Christ the Same (through all our story's pages) - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- O Day of God, Draw Nigh - Scott (1899-1987)
- O Lord the Clouds are Gathering - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950)
- Soon and Very Soon
- The Battle Belongs to the Lord - Jamie Owens-Collins (b 1957)
- The Clouds of Judgment Gather - Unknown - from the Lutheran Book of Worship
- The Trees of the Field (will clap their hands) - Rubin / Dauermann
- There is a Higher Throne Than all this World has Known - Getty
- There is A New Heaven; There is A New Earth - Duck
- We Know That Christ is Raised and Dies No More - Geyer
- Whom Shall I Fear [God of Angel Armies] - Chris Tomlin (b. 1972)
- You Never Let Go (Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death) - Matt Redman (b 1974)
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