Thursday, September 29, 2011

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior


Words: Fanny J. Crosby
Music: William H. Doane
Copyright: Public Domain
Main Subject: Supplication
Scripture: Genesis 18:3



            1.     Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
                  Hear my humble cry;
                  While on others Thou art calling,
                  Do not pass me by.

                      Refrain:
                      Savior, Savior,
                      Hear my humble cry,
                      While on others Thou are calling,
                      Do not pass me by.

                  Let me at a throne of mercy
                  Find a sweet relief;
                  Kneeling there in deep contrition,
                  Help my unbelief.

                  Trusting only in Thy merit,
                  Would I seek Thy face;
                  Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
                  Save me by Thy grace.

                  Thou the spring of all my comfort,
                  More than life to me,
                  Whom have I on earth beside Thee,
                  Whom in Heav’n but Thee.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Nothing But the Blood of Jesus


Words and Music: Robert Lowry
Copyright: Public Domain
Main Subject: Blood
Scripture: Hebrews 9:22







            1.     What can wash away my sin?
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
                  What can make me whole again?
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                      Refrain:
                      Oh! precious is the flow
                      That makes me white as snow;
                      No other fount I know,
                      Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                  For my pardon, this I see,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
                  For my cleansing this my plea,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                  Nothing can for sin atone,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
                  Naught of good that I have done,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                  This is all my hope and peace,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
                  This is all my righteousness,
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                  Now by this I’ll overcome—
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
                  Now by this I’ll reach my home—
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

                  Glory! Glory! This I sing—
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
                  All my praise for this I bring—
                  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Text: Joachim Neander

Music: Erneuerten Gesangbuch
Copyright: Public Domain
Main Subject: Praise
Scripture: Psalm 150:1-2






            1. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
              O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!
              All ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;
              Praise Him in glad adoration.

              Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth,
              Shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
              Hast thou not seen how thy desires e’er have been
              Granted in what He ordaineth?

              Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;
              Surely His goodness and mercy here daily attend thee;
              Ponder anew what the Almighty can do,
              If with His love He befriend thee.

              Praise to the Lord, who, when tempests their warfare are waging,
              Who, when the elements madly around thee are raging,
              Biddeth them cease, turneth their fury to peace,
              Whirlwinds and waters assuaging.

              Praise to the Lord, who, when darkness of sin is abounding,
              Who, when the godless do triumph, all virtue confounding,
              Sheddeth His light, chaseth the horrors of night,
              Saints with His mercy surrounding. 
            2. Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore Him!
              All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him;
              Let the Amen sound from His people again,
              Gladly for aye we adore Him.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Oh Worship the King

Text: Robert Grant
Music: Lyons, attributed to Johann M. Haydn; arranged by William Gardiner
Copyright: Public Domain

Main subject: Worship








            1. O worship the King, all glorious above,
              O gratefully sing His power and His love;
              Our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,
              Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.
              O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,
              Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space,
              His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
              And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.
              The earth with its store of wonders untold,
              Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old;
              Established it fast by a changeless decree,
              And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.
              Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
              It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
              It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
              And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
              Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
              In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;
              Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
              Our maker, defender, redeemer, and friend.
              O measureless might! Ineffable love!
              While angels delight to worship Thee above,
              The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
              With true adoration shall all sing Thy praise.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Rise Up, O Men of God!

Text: William P. Merril
Music: William H. Walter
Copyright: Public Domain








            1. Rise up, O men of God!
              Have done with lesser things.
              Give heart and mind and soul and strength
              to serve the King of kings.

              Rise up, O men of God!
              The kingdom tarries long.
              Bring in the day of brotherhood
              and end the night of wrong.

              Rise up, O men of God!
              The church for you doth wait,
              her strength unequal to her task;
              rise up, and make her great!

              Lift high the cross of Christ!
              Tread where his feet have trod.
              As brothers of the Son of Man,
              rise up, O men of God!

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Let the Lower Lights be Burning

Text: Philip P. Bliss
Copyright: Public Domain

Main subject: Light







            1. Brightly beams our Father’s mercy,
              From His lighthouse evermore,
              But to us He gives the keeping
              Of the lights along the shore.
              • Refrain:
                Let the lower lights be burning!
                Send a gleam across the wave!
                Some poor struggling, fainting seaman
                You may rescue, you may save.
            2. Dark the night of sin has settled,
              Loud the angry billows roar;
              Eager eyes are watching, longing,
              For the lights along the shore.
            3. Trim your feeble lamp, my brother;
              Some poor sailor, tempest-tossed,
              Trying now to make the harbor,
              In the darkness may be lost.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Text: Thomas O. Chisholm
Music: William M. Runyan
Copyright:  © 1923 renewed 1951 Hope Publishing Co., Carol Stream, IL 60188
Main subject: Praise, Faithfulness
Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23



English lyrics to this popular hymn cannot be published here due to copyright restrictions. Details of the copyright statement can be viewed here. A Tagalog translation is presented here instead. The original translator, however, is unknown to this blogger.


O Dios naming Ama laging tapat
Hindi nagbabago sa twi-twina
Namamalagi ang awa’t pagsinta
Ang katapatan Mo’y walang hanggan

CHORUS
Tunay Kang matapat!
Tunay Kang matapat!
Araw-araw aking namamalas
Ang nasa ko ay aking natanggap
Tunay Kang matapat
Hanggang wakas

Tag-ani, tag-ulan at sa tag-araw
B’wan, araw, at bituin kumikinang
Nag-aawitan na may kasiyahan
Katapatan Mo O Dios ay tunay

Kapatawaran at kapayapaan
Mga pangako Mong umakbay
Ang pag-asa’t lakas ay sumisilang
Ang lahat na ito’y kaloob lamang


Saturday, September 17, 2011

How Great Thou Art

Text: Carl Boberg in Swedish
Translated into English by Stuart K. Hine
Copyright: Original copyright owned by Suart K. Hine, 1941. Renewed 1981 by Manna Music, Inc. ARR UBP of Manna Music, Inc. (35255 Brooten Road, Pacific City OR 97135)
Main subject: Praise
Scripture: Psalm 8


O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works Thy hands have made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Refrain:
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!


When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:
(Repeat Refrain.)

And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin:
(Repeat Refrain.)

When Christ shall come with shouts of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow in humble adoration,
And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art!
(Repeat Refrain.)

The Lily of the Valley

Music: Charles W. Fry

Copyright: Public Domain
Main subject: Jesus/Saviour

Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:1









              1. I have found a friend in Jesus, He’s everything to me,
                He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul;
                The Lily of the Valley, in Him alone I see
                All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole.
                In sorrow He’s my comfort, in trouble He’s my stay;
                He tells me every care on Him to roll.
                • Refrain:
                  He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star,
                  He’s the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.
              2. He all my grief has taken, and all my sorrows borne;
                In temptation He’s my strong and mighty tow’r;
                I have all for Him forsaken, and all my idols torn
                From my heart and now He keeps me by His pow’r.
                Though all the world forsake me, and Satan tempt me sore,
                Through Jesus I shall safely reach the goal.
              3. He will never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here,
                While I live by faith and do His blessed will;
                A wall of fire about me, I’ve nothing now to fear,
                From His manna He my hungry soul shall fill.
                Then sweeping up to glory to see His blessed face,
                Where rivers of delight shall ever roll.