Category: Letters to the Choir

1 All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and with us sing, O praise ye! Alleluia! O brother sun with golden beam, O sister moon with silver gleam! O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 O brother wind, air, clouds, and rain, by which all creatures ye sustain, O praise ye! Alleluia! Thou rising morn, in praise rejoice, ye lights of evening, find a voice! O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 O sister water, flowing clear, make music for thy Lord to hear, Alleluia! Alleluia! O brother fire who lights the night, providing warmth, enhancing sight, O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 Dear mother earth, who day by day unfoldest blessings on our way, Alleluia! Alleluia! The flowers and fruits that in thee grow, let them God’s glory also show! O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
5 All ye who are of tender heart, forgiving others, take your part, O praise ye! Alleluia! Ye who long pain and sorrow bear, praise God and on him cast your care! O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
6 And thou, our sister, gentle death, waiting to hush our latest breath, Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou leadest home the child of God, and Christ our Lord the way has trod, O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
7 Let all things their Creator bless, and worship him in humbleness, O praise ye! Alleluia! Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son, and praise the Spirit, Three in One! O praise ye! O praise ye! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

TFWS 2077

1 You alone are holy; you alone are worthy; you are filled with splendor and with awesome wonder. For our sins You suffered, died, and resurrected. Granting us salvation, giving us eternal life.
2 You alone are holy; you alone are worthy; you are filled with splendor and with awesome wonder. Send your Holy Spirit; make it shine upon us, let your wondrous glory with its radiance fill this place.

(UMH 213)

1 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates; behold, the King of glory waits; the King of kings is drawing near; the Savior of the world is here!
2 Fling wide the portals of your heart; make it a temple, set apart from earthly use for heaven’s employ, adorned with prayer and love and joy.
3 Redeemer, come, with us abide; our hearts to thee we open wide; let us thy inner presence feel; thy grace and love in us reveal.
4 Thy Holy Spirit lead us on until our glorious goal is won; eternal praise, eternal fame be offered, Savior, to thy name!

Christ Is All – Lyrics

1 I don’t possess houses or lands, fine clothes or jewelry, sorrows and cares in this old world my lot seems to be, but I have a Christ who paid the price way back on Calvary, and Christ is all, all and all this world to me.
REFRAIN: Christ is all, He’s everything to me, Christ is all; yes, Christ is all, He’s everything to me; Christ is all, He rules the land and sea; Christ is all, without Him nothing could be; Christ is all, all and all this world to me.
2 There are some folk who look and long for this world’s riches, there are some folk who look for power, position too, but I have a Christ all in my life, this makes me happy, for Christ is all, all and all this world to me. REFRAIN
3 Yes, Christ is all, means more to me than this world’s riches, He is my sight, my guiding light thru pathless seas, yes, it’s mighty nice to own a Christ who will my friend be, yes Christ is all, all and all this world to me. REFRAIN

1.King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn-crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.
Chorus:
Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget Thine agony; Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.
2.Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid,
Tenderly mourned and wept;
Angels in robes of light arrayed
Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept. (Refrain)
3.Let me like Mary, through the gloom,
Come with a gift to Thee;
Show to me now the empty tomb,
Lead me to Calvary. (Refrain)
4. May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee;
Even Thy cup of grief to share,
Thou hast borne all for me. (Refrain)

1. Low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Savior, waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord! 
Refrain:
Up from the grave he arose; with a mighty triumph o’er his foes; he arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever, with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!
2. Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus my Savior, vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord! (Refrain) 
3. Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior; he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord! (Refrain)

1 Go to dark Gethsemane, You who feel the tempter’s pow’r; Your Redeemer’s conflict see; Watch with Him one bitter hour; Turn not from His griefs away; Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
2 Follow to the judgment hall; View the Lord of life arraigned; O the worm-wood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained! Shun not suff’ring, shame, or loss; Learn of Him to bear the cross.
3 Calv’ry’s mournful mountain climb There’ adoring at His feet, Mark the miracle of time, God’s own sacrifice complete: “It is finished!” Hear the cry; Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
4 Early hasten to the tomb Where they laid his breathless clay; All is solitude and gloom; Who hath taken Him away? Christ is ris’n! He meets our eyes: Savior, teach us so to rise.

1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (x2)
Oh! sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (x2)
Oh! sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
3 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? (x2)
Oh! sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
4 Were you there when the sun refused to shine?(x2)
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when the sun refused to shine?

1. All hail the power of Jesus’ name! Let angels prostrate fall, let angels prostrate fall; bring forth the royal diadem,
   (Refrain) and crown him, crown him, crown him, crown him, and crown him Lord of all.
2. Ye chosen seed of Israel’s race, ye ransomed from the fall, ye ransomed from the fall, hail him who saves you by his grace, (Refrain)
3. Sinners, whose love can ne’er forget the wormwood and the gall, the wormwood and the gall, go spread your trophies at his feet, (Refrain)
4. Let every kindred, every tribe on this terrestrial ball,on this terrestrial ball,
   to him all majesty ascribe, (Refrain)
5. Crown him, ye martyrs of your God, who from his altar call, who from his altar call; extol the Stem of Jesse’s Rod, (Refrain)
6. O that with yonder sacred throng we at his feet may fall, we at his feet may fall!
   We’ll join the everlasting song, (Refrain)