Most are free-to-use (ie public domain or copyright-free), so the words can be copied and sung to at least one tune with no concerns about copyright or performance licensing - sometimes in a limited setting. Many of these hymns are old / traditional - but where possible a variety of styles and genres are included.
A small selection of hymns that are still copyright may also be included, if they are particularly relevant.
Readings
First:Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw:
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? ... The wicked surround the righteous-- therefore judgment comes forth perverted. Then the Lord answered "For there is still a vision for the appointed time" ...
OR
Isaiah 1:10-18
God speaks to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, telling them to make [them]selves clean ...cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? ... The wicked surround the righteous-- therefore judgment comes forth perverted. Then the Lord answered "For there is still a vision for the appointed time" ...
OR
Isaiah 1:10-18
God speaks to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, telling them to make [them]selves clean ...cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Second: II Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 We pray that God will make you worthy ... Christ will be glorified in you. Turn to the coming of Jesus - but do not be alarmed by predictions that the day has come.
Gospel: Luke 19: 1-10 - Zacchaeus the tax-collector climbed a tree so Jesus would see him - Jesus dined with him, Zacchaeus has a change of heart and is saved. Jesus came to seek and save the lost.
Themes
Jesus in our midst: our protector and Saviour of the lost. Forgiveness. The love of God. Sending forth.Free-use hymns
- A Charge to keep I Have - Wesley
- A Safe Stronghold Our God is Still - Carlyle
- Abide Among us with Thy Grace - Winkworth
- All my Hope On God is Founded - Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- Amazing Grace
- Be Still my Soul
- Be Thou my Vision
- Blessed be the Ties that Bind / Blest be the Tie that Binds
- Brotherly Love - Wesley
- Christ From Whom All Blessings Flow - Wesley
- Come Let us to the Lord Our God - Morrison
- Come Sinners to the Gospel Feast - Wesley
- Come Thou (O) Long Expected Jesus
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- Come Ye (You) Sinners Poor and Needy (I will arise and go to Jesus)
- Come Ye that Love the Lord - Watts
- Day by Day Dear Lord - Richard of Chichester
- Day of Judgment! Day of Wonder! - Newton
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
- Deck Thyself my Soul with Gladness - Winkworth
- Draw Me Nearer (I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice) - Crosby
- Father of Peace and God of Love - Doddridge
- Father, We Praise Thee, Now the Night is Over - Dearmer
- Fight the Good Fight with all thy Might
- From All that Dwell Belowthe Skies - Watts
- God Be with You Till we Meet Again - Rankin (1828-1904)
- God is Working His Purpose Out / As the Waters Cover the Sea - Arthur Campbell Ainger (1841-1919)
- God Moves in a Mysterious Way
- God of Grace and God of Glory - Fosdick (1878-1969) - free us in the USA
- Great is Thy Faithfulness - free us in the USA
- Hear My Cry O Lord - Unknown
- How Firm A Foundation - Keith / Keen
- How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
- I Love Thy Kingdom Lord - Dwight
- I Sought the Lord and Afterward I Knew - Ingelow (1820-1897)
- I Surrender All (All to Jesus I Surrender)
- I'm Not Ashamed To Own my Lord - Watts
- I'm so Glad Jesus Lifted Me - Unknown
- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
- It is Well With my Soul (When peace like a river)
- Jesus – the Name High Over All - Wesley
- Jesus Calls us O’er the Tumult - Alexander
- Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - Caswall
- Joyful Joyful we Adore Thee
- Just as I Am Without One Plea
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Alleluias of St James)
- Living For Jesus - Chisholm (1866-1960) - free us in the USA
- Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending
- Look up Look Down that Lonesome Road - Unknown
- Lord in the Strength of Grace - Wesley
- Lord Jesus Think on Me
- Lord Keep us Steadfast in Thy Word - Winkworth
- Love Divine all Loves Excelling
- Man of Sorrows, What a Name - Bliss
- May the Grace of Christ Our Saviour - John Newton (1725-1807)
- May the Mind of Christ my Saviour - Wilkinson
- My Faith Looks up to Thee - Palmer (1808-1887)
- No Cause for Fear (God is my strong salvation) - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Not so in Haste my Heart - Torrey
- O Jesus I Have Promised
- O Jesus Saviour Grow in Me - Elizabeth Lee Smith
- O Love How Deep How Broad How High - Webb
- O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go - Matheson
- O Thou Who Camest From Above - Wesley
- O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be - John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- O Worship the King (all glorious above) - Grant
- Partaking of the Lord's Supper (Jesus we thus obey) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
- Put all Your Trust In God - Wesley
- Rescue the Perishing - Crosby
- Shall we Gather at the River
- Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above - Cox
- Sing to the King (Sing we the King who is coming to reign) - Horne
- Speak Lord in the Stillness - Crawford (1864-1927)
- Stand Up and Bless the Lord - James Montgomery (1771-1854)
- Take my Life and Let it Be
- The God of Abraham Praise - Olivers
- The Lily of the Valley - Charles W Fry (1837-1882)
- The Promised Rest (God of all power, and truth, and grace) - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Souls of men, why will ye scatter) - Faber
- Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose - Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Thy Kingdom Come O God - Hensley
- To God be the Glory
- Walking with God - Cowper
- We Believe In One True God - Winkworth
- We Give Immortal Praise - Isaac Watts
- We Would See Jesus - Warner
- We'll Understand It Better By and By - Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933)
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
- When Wilt Thou Save the People - Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
- Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life - North
- Zacchaeus was a Wee Little Man - Unknown
Hymns which may still be copyright
- A Long-Lost Lamb - Keithahn
- All are Welcome (Let us build a house) - Marty Haugen (b 1950)
- Freely Freely - Owens
- God of Freedom, God of Justice - Shirley Erena Murray (1931-2020)
- I'm Forever Grateful - Mark Altrogge (b. 1950)
- He gave his life in Selfless Love - Porteous
- How long, O Lord, will you forget - Woollett
- Jesus Christ is Waiting - John Bell (b. 1949), Maule (1958-2019)
- Mighty to Save (Everyone needs compassion) - Reuben Morgan (b. 1975) Ben Fielding ()
- O Day of God, Draw Nigh - Scott (1899-1987)
- O God of Every Nation - Reid
- Refiner's Fire
- The Kingdom of God is Justice and Joy - Rees
- This is A Day of New Beginnings - Wren
- This is the Day - various
- When the Music Fades (The Heart of Worship) - Matt Redman (b. )
- Zaccheus (There was a man in Jericho called Zaccheus) - Miriam Therese Winter (b 1938)
- Zaccheus was a Greedy Little Man - unknown
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