LiturgyTools.net: Hymns for Proper 19 / Ordinary 24 in Year B (17th Sunday after Pentecost, 15 September 2024)

A selection of hymns and songs, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24, Year B.

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 which are, or may be, still copyright are 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:

Proverbs 1:20-33 - Wisdom rebukes the foolish - Give heed to my reproof; I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.

Isaiah 50:4-9 - The suffering servant: I made no resistance - offered my back to those who struck me. The Lord comes to my aid.

Psalm: 114: I will walk in the presence of God / I love the Lord for he has heard my cry.

Second: James 3:1-12 The unbridled tongue - With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in the likeness of God.

Gospel: Mark 8:27-38 - Who do people say I am? Peter recognises The Christ, but struggles with his need to suffer - take up your cross and follow me.

Themes

Suffering, and our need to assist others in their suffering. Salvation / redemption through suffering. No redemption without crucifixion.

Free-use pictures / art-works

See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.

Free-use hymns

A Man There Lived in Galilee - Lowry (1855-1932)
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
All my Hope is Firmly Grounded - Jacobi, trans from Neander
And are We Yet Alive - Charles Wesley
And Now O Father Mindful of the Love - Bright
At the Name of Jesus

Christ be with Me
Christ For the World we Sing - Wolcott
Christ in You,the Hope of Glory - Wesley, trans from Gerhardt
Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Wesley
Come ye Thankful People Come
Crown Him With Many Crowns

Fold to Your Heart Your Sister and Your Brother - Whittier (1807-1892)
For the Beauty of the Earth
Forth in Thy Name O Lord I Go - Wesley
God be in my Head (the Sarum Prayer)
God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free use in the USA
God, whose Almighty Word - Marriott
Guide me O Thou Great Redeemer / Jehovah (Bread of Heaven)

Hail Thou Once Despised Jesus - Toplady
Hail to the Lord's Anointed
He is Lord, He is Lord / You are Lord - Unknown
How Shall I Sing That Majesty - Mason (1646?-1694)

I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I Sing the Mighty Power of God
I’ll Praise my Maker While I’ve Breath - Wesley / Watts
If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee - Winkworth, trans from Neumark
I'm Goin' a Sing When the Spirit Says Sing - Unknown
I'M Gonna Live so God Can Use Me - Unknown
I'm Not Ashamed To Own my Lord - Watts
Immortal Love for Ever Full - Whittier
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
In Christ there is no East or West

Jesus Calls us O’er the Tumult - Alexander
Jesus Friend of Little Children - Mathams
Jesus Lives Your Terrors Now - Cox, trans from Gellert
Jesus Loves Me this I Know - Warner (1824-1915)
Just as I Am Without One Plea
Let the Words of my Mouth - Unknown (Psalm 19:14)
Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Milton
Living For Jesus - Chisholm (1866-1960)- free use in the USA
Look Ye Saints the Sight is Glorious - Kelly
Lord, Speak to Me that I May Speak - Havergal

Make me A Captive Lord - Matheson
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone - Shepherd
My Song is Love Unknown
Nearer my God to Thee
New Every Morning is the Love - Keble (1792-1866)
Now on Land and Sea Descending - Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892)
Now that the Daylight Fills the Sky - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Wesley
O God my Faithful God - Winkworth (1827-78), trans from Heermann (1585-1647)
O God Our Help in Ages Past
O Jesus I Have Promised
O Jesus, King most Wonderful - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
O Master Let me Walk with Thee (You) - Gladden
O Perfect Love all Human Thought Transcending - Gurney
O Word of God Incarnate - How
O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness - Monsell (1811-1875)
Open my Eyes that I May See - Scott

Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Praise to the Holiest in the Height
Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Winkworth
Rejoice the Lord is King
Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart - Plumbtree
Revive Us Again - Mackay (1839-1885)
Saviour like a Shepherd Lead Us
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
Strengthen For Service Lord The Hands - Humphreys, Dearmer - trans from St. Ephraem, Syrus

Take my Life and Let it Be
Take Time to be Holy
Take up Thy Cross / Take up Your Cross (the Saviour Said)
Teach Me my God and King - Herbert
The God of Abraham Praise - Olivers
The Heavens are Telling - Unknown
The Heavens Declare Thy Glory Lord - Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Thou art the Christ, O Lord - William Walsham How (1823-1897)
Through all the Changing Scenes of Life - Unknown - from Tate and Brady's New Version, 1696, 1698

We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died - Kelly
What a Friend we have in Jesus
When all Thy Mercies O my God - Addison
Where He Leads me I Will Follow - Blandly (1849-?)
Wherever He Leads I'll Go - B. B. McKinney (1886-1952)
Woke up This Morning - Unknown
Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim - Wesley
Yes God is Good in Earth and Sky - John Hampden Gurney (1802–1862)

Hymns which may still be copyright

Christ is the World's Light He and None Other - Pratt Green (1903–2000)
Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom - Ruth Duck (b. 1947)
Come Wounded Healer - Leckebusch (b 1962)
Earth's Fragile Beauties we Possess - Robert Willis (b. 1947)

Follow Me / Lose Your Life and Save It - Robin Mann
God Grant us Words to Speak - Alan Luff (1928-2020)
Goodness is Stronger than Evil - Tutu
In all our Grief And Fear - Sylvia G. Dunstan (1955-1993)
Jesus Christ is Waiting - Bell (b. 1949), Maule (1958-2019)

Let Kings and Prophets Yield Their Name - Carl P Daw ()
Lift High the Cross
Lord For the Years Your Love Has Kept and Guided - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
Lord We Turn to You For Mercy - Leckebusch
Lord You Call us to Your Service - Willimon / West

Merciful (At the cross where Jesus suffered) - graham Kendrick (b )
See Christ Was Wounded For Our Sake - Brian Foley (1919-2000)
Servant Song (Brother let me be Your Servant) - Gillard - Gillard
Show Me the Way of the Cross Once Again - Redman (b 1974)

The Servant King (From heav'n You came helpless babe) - Kendrick
The Summons (Will You Come and Follow Me)
Walking in the Way of the Cross of Love (Weary of All Trumpeting) - Martin H Franzmann (1907-1976)
Were I the Perfect Child of God - John Bell (b. 1949)
Would I Have Answered When You Called - Stuempfle (1923-2007)