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 be copyright may also included where they are a particularly good for for the theme(s).
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:Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 - Esther intercedes with the King to ask for relief of the people from having being sold by Haman - the king had Haman killed, and Mordecai enjoined the Jews to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth day of Adar a a memorial of the time they were been turned from sorrow into gladness.
OR
Numbers 11:4-5, 10-16, 25-29 - The gift of prophecy is given to Eldad and Medad - Moses is pleased, Joshua is jealous on his behalf
Psalm: 18: The precepts of the Lord gladden the heart / The law of the Lord is perfect
Second: James 5: 13-20 - Instructions for suffering, prayer and anointing ... whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner's soul from death.
Gospel: Mark 9:38-50 - Anyone who is not against us is for us - purge yourself from sin - do not be an obstacle to those who have faith.
Psalm: 18: The precepts of the Lord gladden the heart / The law of the Lord is perfect
Second: James 5: 13-20 - Instructions for suffering, prayer and anointing ... whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner's soul from death.
Gospel: Mark 9:38-50 - Anyone who is not against us is for us - purge yourself from sin - do not be an obstacle to those who have faith.
Themes
Living faithfully in the faith, discern what is God's will and follow it, acting in service of other people, welcoming the gifts that God has given to all people.Free-use hymns
- A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
- A Mighty Fortress is Our God - Hedge, trans from Luther
- A Tender Conscience - Wesley
- All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
- All People that on Earth do Dwell
- Angel Voices Ever Singing - Pott
- At the Name of Jesus
- Be Thou my Guardian and my Guide - Isaac Williams (1802-1865)
- Be Thou my Vision
- Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (Thou God of truth and love) - Wesley
- Behold the Saviour of Mankind - Samuel Wesley (1662-1735)
- Blessed Jesus at Your Word
- Brotherly Love - Wesley
- Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Wesley
- Come Down O Love Divine
- Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- Come, Ye Disconsolate - Moore / Hastings
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
- Dear Lord for All in Pain
- Father Hear the Prayer we Offer - Willis (1824-1908)
- Father of Heaven Whose Love Profound - Cooper
- For the Beauty of the Earth
- Give Me Thy Heart
- Give to the Winds Thy Fears - Wesley, trans from Gerhardt (1656)
- God be in my Head (the Sarum Prayer)
- God Himself is Present - Foster / Miller, translated from Blumengärtlein
- God Will Take Care of You (Nunca Desmayes) - Martin
- Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)
- Hail Redeemer King Divine
- Have Thine own way Lord
- He (All) Who Would Valiant be / to be a Pilgrim
- His Eye is on the Sparrow
- Holy God we Praise Thy Name
- How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
- I am His and He is Mine - Robinson (1838-1876)
- I Am the Lord that Healeth Thee (Heal us, Immaneul) - Cowper (1731-1800)
- I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
- I Sing the Mighty Power of God
- I Surrender All (All to Jesus I Surrender)
- If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee - Winkworth, trans from Neumark
- If you Believe and I Believe
- In Christ there is no East or West
- Jesus I my Cross Have Taken - Lyte (1793-1847)
- Jesus Lover of my Soul - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Jesus the First and Last - Lelia (Mrs. C.H.) Morris (1862-1929)
- Jesus Where'er Thy People Meet - Cowper
- Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
- Just as I Am Without One Plea
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Alleluias of St James)
- Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So - Kirkpatrick
- Lift up your Hearts (We lift them, Lord, to Thee) - Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918)
- Lord God, We all to Thee Give Praise (verses 1-4) - verses 1-10, trans from Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
- Lord I was Blind - William T. Matson (1833-1899)
- Lord Keep us Steadfast in Thy Word - Winkworth
- Lord Thy Word Abideth - Baker
- Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal
- Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- More Than Conquerors (All hail the mighty Conqueror) - Jonathan Landry Cruse (2015)
- My Hope is Built on Nothing Less - Mote (1797-1874)
- New Every Morning is the Love - Keble (1792-1866)
- Now is the Healing Time Decreed - Thomas Alexander Lacey (1853-1931)
- Now Israel May Say - Whittingham
- Now Thank we all our God
- O God of Bethel By Whose Hand - Doddridge
- O God Our Help in Ages Past
- O Jesus I Have Promised
- O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
- O Worship the King (all glorious above) - Grant
- On Opening a Place of Social Prayer (Great shepherd of Thy people hear) - Newton
- Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
- Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him
- Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Winkworth
- Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Rescue the Perishing - Crosby
- Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
- Son of God Eternal Savior - Lowry
- Songs of Praise the Angels Sing / Sang - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Spirit Divine Attend Our Prayers - Reed
- Strengthen For Service Lord The Hands - Humphreys, Dearmer - trans from St. Ephraem, Syrus
- Sweet Hour of Prayer - Walford
- Sweet Saviour Bless us as we Go
- Take my Life and Let it Be
- Take Time to be Holy
- Take up Thy Cross / Take up Your Cross (the Saviour Said)
- The Heavens Declare Thy Glory Lord - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
- Thine Arm, O Lord, in Days of Old - Plumptre
- Through all the Changing Scenes of Life - Unknown - from Tate and Brady's New Version, 1696, 1698
- To the Name of Our Salvation - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- We Walk By Faith
- What a Friend we have in Jesus
- When all Thy Mercies O my God - Addison
- When we Walk with the Lord (Trust and Obey)
- Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life - North
- Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones - Riley
Hymns which may still be copyright
- And They'll Know we are Christians by our Love (We are One in the Spirit) - Scholltes
- Be Present Spirit of the Lord - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- Before I Take the Body of my Lord - Bell (b. 1949)
- Bring Forth the Kingdom (You are salt for the earth) - Haugen - Haugen
- Come Bring Your Burdens to God - John Bell (b. 1949)
- Dear Lord Lead Me Day By Day - Asuncion
- Faith is Patience in the Night - Keithahn
- Faithful One so Unchanging - Doerksen
- Freely Freely - Owens
- Go Forth for God (Go forth for God, go to the world in peace) - Peacey (1896-1971)
- He Touched Me (Shackled by a Heavy Burden) - Gaither / Gaither
- Help us Accept Each Other - Fred Kaan (1929-2009)
- If it Had Not Been for the Lord - Douroux (b. 1941)
- Jehovah Jireh, my Provider
- Let God Arise - Graham Kendrick (b. 1950)
- Lord of all Hopefulness
- Make Me A Servant - Willard F. Jabusch (1930-2018)
- May we, O Holy Spirit, Bear your Fruit - Paul Wigmore (1925-2014)
- Seek Ye First - Karen Lafferty (b. 1948)
- When the Poor Ones (Cuando El Pobre) - Lockwood (b 1946), trans from Olivar
- Where Christ Is, His Church Is There - Pratt-Green
- Where the Spirit of the Lord Is - Adams (b 1943)
- You are the Salt of the Earth - Richard Kinsey Avery (1934-2020) and Donald Stuart Marsh (1923-2010)
- Your Word O God a Living Sword - Christopher Webber (b 1932)
See also ...
- Hymns for Harvest Festival / season (Northern hemisphere)
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