Song Sheet July 28th
Entrance Hymn: As We Gather at Your Table
As we gather at your table, as we listen to your word, Help us know, O God, your presence: Let our hearts and minds be stirred. Nourish us with sacred story till we claim it as our own; Teach us through this holy banquet how to make love’s victory known.
Turn our worship into witness in the sacrament of life; Help us forth to love and serve you, bringing peace where there is strife. Give us, Christ, your great compassion to forgive as you forgave; May we still behold your image in the world you died to save.
Gracious spirit, help us summon other guests to share that feast. Where triumphant love will welcome those who had been last and least. There no more will envy blind us; nor will pride our peace destroy. As we join with saints and angels to repeat the sounding joy.
Offertory Hymn: How Great Thou Art
Oh Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds 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 Savior God to Thee, How great Thou art, how great Thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior 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.(To 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. (To Refrain)
When Christ shall come with shout 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!” (To Refrain)
Communion Hymn: Behold the Lamb of God
Those who were in the dark are thankful for the sunlight; we who live, we who die are grateful for his gift, thankful for his love.
(Refrain) Behold, behold the lamb of God. All who eat, all who drink shall live; and all, all who dwell in God shall come to know his glory.
Peaceful now, those whose hearts are blessed with understanding of the wheat, of the wine united with his word and the love we share. (To Refrain)
Gentle one, Child of God, join with us at this table. Bless our lives; nourish all who hunger for this feast; shelter them with peace. (To Refrain)
Lord of all, give us light. Deliver us from evil. Make us one; be our shield. Make still the winds that blow; cradle us with love. (To Refrain)
Recessional Hymn: Praise the Lord Ye Heavens
Praise the Lord ye heav’ns adore him; Praise him angels, in the height: Sun and moon, rejoice before him; Praise him, all ye starts of light. Praise the Lord for he has spoken; Worlds his mighty voice obeyed; Laws which never shall be broken for their guidance he has made.
Praise the Lord for he is glorious; Never shall his promise fail; God has made his saints victorious; Sin and death shall not prevail Praise the God of our salvation! Hosts on high his pow’r proclaim; Heav’n and earth and all creation, Laud and magnify his name.
Worship, honor, glory, blessing, Lord, we offer unto thee; Young and old, thy praise expressing, in glad homage bend the knee. All the saints in heav’n adore thee, We would bow before thy throne; As thine angels serve before thee, so on earth thy will be done.
