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 subject to copyright may be included, where they are particularly appropriate.
Readings
First: Acts 17:22-31 The God who made the world and everything in it .. does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands ...From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, ... For 'In him we live and move and have our being'; . God ... now he commands all people everywhere to repent.Psalm: 66 Bless our God O peoples .
Second: I Peter 3:13-22 - Reverence Christ in your hearts .. have your answer ready for those who ask you the reason for your hope ... Christ himself has died for sins - in the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.
Gospel: John 14:15-21 - I shall ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate ... that spirit of Truth. ... anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me: and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father.
Themes
Receiving the Spirit - strengthening for the Christian life. Truth. The spirit as the source of the message we proclaim. Looking forward to Pentecost - coming of another advocate.Free-use artwork
Free-use hymns
All for Jesus - James
Be Still, My Soul
Beloved let us Love: Love is of God - Bonar
Blessed Quietness - Ferguson
Christ is the world's Redeemer - MacGregor
Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come - Caswall
Give me the Faith which can Remove - Wesley
He Keeps Me Singing (There’s Within My Heart a Melody) - Bridgers
Holy Spirit Truth Divine - Longfellow
I Love to Tell the Story - Hankey and Fischer
In the Quiet Consecration - Coote
Jesus, lover of my soul - Wesley
Jesus, Thine All-Victorious Love - Wesley
Jesus Where'er thy People Meet - Cowper
Lord of Beauty Thine the Splendor - Alington
Lord Speak to Us That We May Speak - Havergal
May We Thy Precepts Lord Fulfill - Osler
O For a Heart to Praise My God - Wesley
O Lord of Heaven and Earth and Sea - Wordsworth
O Love Divine what hast Thou Done - Wesley
O Love, how Deep, how Broad, how High Webb
Of the Glory of God in the Starry Heavens (The spacious firmament on high) - Addison
Once, Only Once, and Once for All - Bright
Our Blest Redeemer - Auger
Son of God, Eternal Savior - Lowry
There is a Green Hill far Away - Alexander
Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose - Wesley
Through all the Changing Scenes of Life - unknown, pre 1696
We give Immortal Praise - Watts
Hymns which may still be copyright
Deep in the Shadows of the Past - Wren
Let there be Love
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