Weekly Hymns

23 March 2025

Processional Hymn

FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
Forty days and forty nights
you were fasting in the wild,
forty days and forty nights
tempted and yet undefiled.

Let us your endurance share
and from earthly greed abstain,
with you, watching unto prayer,
with you, strong to suffer pain.

And if Satan on us press
flesh or spirit to assail,
victor in the wilderness,
grant we may not faint or fail.

So shall we have peace divine:
holier gladness ours shall be;
round us, too, shall angels shine,
such as ministered to Thee.

Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
ever constant by your side,
that with you we may appear
at the eternal Easter tide.
Text: George Hunt Smitten 1822-1870, alt. Francis Pott 1832-1909.Music: AUS DER TIEFE (HEINLEIN) 77.77; Nürnbergisches Gesonbuch, 1676. Melody attrib. Martin Herbert 1654-1681. All rights reserved. Reprinted under One License #A640714.

Offertory Hymn

HERE I AM LORD (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
I the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin
my hand will save.
I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Refrain
Here I am Lord. Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people's pain.
I have wept for love of them.
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them.
Whom shall I send?         Refrain

I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will tend the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them.
My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide
'til their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them.
Whom shall I send?         Refrain
Text: Based on Isaiah 6. Text and music © 1981, OCP. Reprinted under CCLI License #A356485. All rights reserved.

Communion Hymn

ON EAGLE’S WINGS (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord,
who abide in His shadow for life,
say to the Lord “My refuge,
my rock in whom I trust”.

Refrain:
And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn,
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of His hand.

The snare of the fowler will never capture you
and famine will bring you no fear;
under His wings your refuge,
His faithfulness your shield.    Refrain

You need not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day;
thou thousands fall about you,
near you it shall not come.    Refrain

For to His angels He’s given a command –
to guard you in all of your ways;
upon their hands they will bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.    Refrain
Text: Based on Psalm 91. Text and music © 1979, OCP. Contributors: Michael Joncas. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.

IN CHRIST ALONE (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
In Christ alone, my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This cornerstone, this solid ground
firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My comforter, my all in all
here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone,who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
scorned by the onesHe came to save.
‘til on that cross as Jesus died
the wrath of God was satisfied.
For every sin on Him was laid
here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay,
light of the world by darkness slain;
then bursting forth in glorious day,
up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory,
sin's curse has lost its grip on me,
for I am His and He is mine
bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life,no fear in death,
this is the power of Christ in me;
from life's first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
can ever pluck me from His hand;
til He returns or calls me home,
here in the power of Christ I'll stand!
Music & Text: Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. © 2002 Thankyou Music. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.

Recessional Hymn

GO TELL EVERYONE (Sunday 9am & 5pm)
God’s Spirit is in my heart, He has called me and set me apart.
This is what I have to do, what I have to do.

Refrain              
He sent me to give the Good News to the poor,
tell prisoners that they are prisoners no more,
tell blind people that they can see,
and set the downtrodden free.
And go tell ev’ry one the news that the
kingdom of God has come,
and go tell ev’ryone
the news that God’s Kingdom has come.

Just as the Father sent me, so I’m sending you out to be
my witnesses throughout the world, the whole of the world.    Refrain

Don’t worry what you have to say, don’t worry because on that day
God’s spirit will speak in your heart, will speak in your heart.    Refrain
Music: Hubert Richards. Text: Alan Dale. Reprinted under One License #A640714. All rights reserved.