Hymns and song suggestions, based on themes from the Revised Common lectionary for the Sunday of Proper 28 / Ordinary Time 33, 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 that are still copyright, but are a particularly good fit for the day's readings, are also included.
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:1 Samuel 1:4-20 - Hannah prayed in deep distress - Eli the priest heard her, "Go in peace; the God of Israel grant the petition you have made to him." She conceived and bore a son, who she named Samuel.
OR
Daniel 12:1-13 - There will be a time of great distress ... your own people will be spared
Psalm: 15 - Preserve me God I take refuge in you / You are my portion and cup / My heart rejoices / You show me the path of life
Second: Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25 - Christ offered one single sacrifice for sins, then took his place at God's right hand
Gospel: Mark 13:1-8 - The end: destruction of the world, be aware of the signs - and false signs ... but the end is still to come. For nation will rise against nation ...there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning
Psalm: 15 - Preserve me God I take refuge in you / You are my portion and cup / My heart rejoices / You show me the path of life
Second: Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25 - Christ offered one single sacrifice for sins, then took his place at God's right hand
Gospel: Mark 13:1-8 - The end: destruction of the world, be aware of the signs - and false signs ... but the end is still to come. For nation will rise against nation ...there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning
Themes
Last days, end times: being prepared, faithfulness to God. Salvation.Free-use artworks
See lectionary art for this Sunday for suggested pictures and art-works based on today's readings.Free-use hymns
- A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
- All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
- All my Hope On God is Founded
- All Things are Possible to Him - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Alleluia Sing to Jesus
- And Can it Be that I should Gain - Wesley
- And Now O Father Mindful of the Love - Bright
- Author of Life Divine - Charles Wesley
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (Mine eyes have seen the coming)
- Be Thou my Vision
- Blessed Assurance
- Christ is our Corner-Stone - Chandler
- Christ the Fair Glory of the Holy Angels - Percy Dearmer (1867-1936)
- Christ Whose Glory Fills the Skies - Wesley
- Come Let Us With Our Lord Arise - Wesley
- Come my Way my Truth my Life - Herbert
- Come Thou (O) Long Expected Jesus
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Come, Ye Disconsolate - Moore / Hastings
- Crown Him With Many Crowns
- Draw Me Nearer (I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice) - Crosby
- Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Fight the Good Fight with all thy Might
- Fix Me Jesus - Unknown - traditional spiritual
- For all the Saints - How
- Forth in Thy Name O Lord I Go - Wesley
- Freedom Is Coming - Unknown
- Give to the Winds Thy Fears - Wesley, trans from Gerhardt (1656)
- Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
- Glory be to Jesus
- God Who Made the Earth - Rhodes
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- Hail Thou Once Despised Jesus - Toplady
- Hark my Soul it is The Lord - Cowper
- Hark What A Sound and Too Divine For Hearing - Myers
- He (All) Who Would Valiant be / to be a Pilgrim
- Here is Love Vast as the Ocean
- How Can I Keep from Singing (My life flows on in endless song)
- How Firm A Foundation - Keith / Keen
- I Know Whom I have Believed (I know not why God’s wondrous grace) - Whittle
- I to the Hills will Lift my Eyes - Unknown - from the Scottish Psalter, 1650
- I Want to be Ready (The great day is nearing) - Blackmer
- I will Fight the Fight - Jana Alayra
- I’ll Praise my Maker While I’ve Breath - Wesley / Watts
- Jerusalem my Happy Home - Joseph Bromehead (1747-1826)
- Jesu, Still Lead On - Borthwick, trans from Ludwig / Zinzendorf (1721)
- Jesus Lead thou On - Jane L. Borthwick (1813-97)
- Jesus Loves Me this I Know - Warner (1824-1915)
- Jesus Paid It All - Hall
- Jesus Priceless Treasure - Winkworth, trans from Franck
- Judge Eternal, Throned In Splendor - Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)
- Kum ba ya / Kumbayah
- Leave It There (If the world from you withhold of its silver and its gold) - Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933)
- Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Winkworth
- Living For Jesus - Chisholm (1866-1960)
- Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending
- Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour
- Lord Jesus Think on Me
- Lord Keep us Steadfast in Thy Word - Winkworth
- Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me - von Hausmann (1826-1901)
- Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- My Faith Looks up to Thee - Palmer (1808-1887)
- My God and is Thy Table Spread / My God Thy Table Now is Spread - Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)
- 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 (There Is A Place of Quiet Rest) - McAfee
- Not so in Haste my Heart - Torrey
- Nothing But the Blood of Jesus - Lowry (1826-1899)
- Now Thank we all our God
- O Christ our Hope our Heart’s Desire - Chandler (1806-1876)
- O For A Heart to Praise my God - Wesley
- O Freedom - Unknown
- O God Our Help in Ages Past
- O Hear the Good News - William Augustine Ogden (1841-189)
- O Jesus King Most Wonderful - Edward Caswall (1814-1878)
- O My Saviour Lifted - How (1823-1897)
- O Worship the King (all glorious above) - Grant
- O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness - Monsell (1811-1875)
- Oft In Danger, Oft In Woe - Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
- Once Only Once and Once For All - Bright (1824-1901)
- Our Father in Heaven - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- Praise for the Fountain Opened - Cowper (1731-1800)
- Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
- Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Winkworth
- Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Rejoice the Lord is King
- Rock of Ages Cleft for Me - Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)
- Send Forth the Gospel - Henry Elliott Fox (1841-1926)
- Since Jesus Came Into My Heart - McDaniel (1850-1940)
- Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (God in man made manifest) - Wordsworth
- Spirit Divine Attend Our Prayers - Reed
- Stand By Me (When the storms of life are raging) - Tindley
- Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus - Duffield (1818-1888)
- Steal Away to Jesus
- Sweet Hour of Prayer - Walford
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Unknown
- The Advent of our God - Chandler
- The God of Abraham Praise - Olivers
- The Head that Once Was Crowned With Thorns - Kelly
- The Jubilee (Blow ye the trumpet, blow) - Charles Wesley
- The Lord Ascendeth Up on High - Arthur T. Russell (1806-1874)
- The Lord Bless and Keep You - Peter Christian Lutkin (1858–1931)
- The Lord Will Come and Not be Slow - Milton
- There is Power in the Blood - Jones (1865-1936)
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
- Thou Art the Way: to Thee Alone - Doane
- Through all the Changing Scenes of Life - Unknown - from Tate and Brady's New Version, 1696, 1698
- Through the Love of God our Saviour - Peters
- Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow - Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
- Tis finished! The Messiah Dies - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Victim Divine - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Wake Awake for Night is Flying (Zion Hears the Watchmen / Sleeper’s Awake)
- When Morning Gilds the Skies - Caswall
- Where High the Heavenly Temple Stands - Bruce (1746-1767)
- Whiter than Snow (Dear Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole) - James L Nicholson (1828-1876)
- Who are These like Stars Appearing - Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812-1897), trans from Heinrich Theobald Schenk (1719)
Hymns which may still be copyright
- Canticle of the Turning
- Come All Who Look to Christ Today - Jones (1926-2022)
- Go Make of All Disciples - Adkins
- Great is the Darkness That covers the Earth - Coates / Richards
- Hosanna to the Son of David (You are the King of Glory)
- How Great Thou Art - Hine
- Hymn of Promise (In the Bulb There is A Flower) - Sleeth (1930-1992)
- Jesus has Come and brings Joy as our Savior - J. L. K. Allendorf (vv. 1, 3-5) and Otto E. Thiele (vs 2) - trans. from Oliver C. Rupprecht (1903-)
- Let us Draw Near to God - David Fellingham (b. 1945)
- Long Ago Prophets Knew (Ring, Ring, Ring) - Pratt Green (1903–2000)
- Lord, When the Storms of Life Arise - Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024)
- O Day of God, Draw Nigh - Scott (1899-1987)
- O Lord the Clouds are Gathering - Kendrick
- Our God is An Awesome God - Mullins
- Soon and Very Soon - Crouch
- The King of Glory Comes - Willard F. Jabusch (1930-2018)
- There are Some Things I May Not Know (Yes, God Is Real) - Morris* (1917-1989)
- There is A New Heaven; There is A New Earth - Duck
- Unsettled World - David Sparks (1994)
- View the Present Through the Promise - Troeger
- We Pray until the Hour that Awesome Hour Unknown - Wesley
- We Turn to God When we are Sorely Pressed - Reginald Horace Fuller (1915-2007), trans from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- When Our Confidence is Shaken - Pratt Green (1903–2000)
- Wonder of Wonders - Wren (b 1936)
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