SDAH 175: Now the Green Blade Rises

For Worship Leaders Text 1Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;Love lives again, that with the dead has been;Love is come again like wheat arising green. 2In the grave they laid Him, love by hatred slain,Thinking that He would never wake again,Laid in the earth…

SDAH 174: Star of Our Hope

For Worship Leaders Text 1Star of our hope! He’ll soon appear,The last loud trumpet speaks Him near;Hail Him, all saints, from pole to pole-How welcome to the faithful soul! 2From heaven angelic voices sound:Behold the Lord of glory crowned,Arrayed in majesty divine,And in His highest glories shine. 3The grave yields up its precious trust,Which long…

SDAH 173: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice!

For Worship Leaders Text 1Good Christian friends, rejoice and sing!Now is the triumph of our King!To all the world glad news we bring:Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2The Lord of life is risen for aye;Bring flowers of song to strew His way;Let all mankind rejoice and say:Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 3Praise we in songs of victoryThat love, that…

SDAH 172: The Strife Is O’er

For Worship Leaders Text Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 1The strife is o’er, the battle done;Now is the victor’s triumph won!Now be the song of praise begun. Alleluia! 2The pow’rs of death have done their worst,But Christ their legions has dispersed.Let shouts of holy joy outburst. Alleluia! 3The three sad days have quickly sped,He rises glorious from…

SDAH 171: Thine Is the Glory

For Worship Leaders Text 1Thine is the glory, Risen, conquering Son;Endless is the victory Thou o’er death hast won.Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,Kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay. Refrain :Thine is the glory,Risen, conquering Son;Endless is the victory Thou o’er death hast won. 2Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the…

SDAH 170: Come, You Faithful

For Worship Leaders Text 1Come, you faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness;God has brought His IsraelInto joy from sadness;Loosed from Pharoah’s bitter yokeJacob’s sons and daughters;Led them with unmoistened footThrough the Red Sea waters. 2‘Tis the spring of souls today;Christ has burst His prison,And from three days’ sleep in deathAs a sun has risen;All the…

SDAH 169: Come, You Faithful

For Worship Leaders Text 1Come, you faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness;God has brought His people forthInto joy from sadnessNow rejoice, Jerusalem,And with true affectionWelcome in unwearied strainsJesus’ resurrection. 2‘Tis the spring of souls today;Christ has burst His prisonFrom the frost and gloom of deathLight and life have risenAll the winter of our sins,Long and…

SDAH 168: And Have the Bright Immensities

For Worship Leaders Text 1And have the bright immensitiesReceived our risen Lord,Where light years frame the PleiadesAnd point Orion’s sword?Do flaming suns His footsteps traceThro’ corridors sublime,The Lord of inter stellar spaceAnd conqueror of time? 2The heav’n that hides Him from our sightKnows neither near nor far;A little candle sheds its lightAs surely as a…

SDAH 167: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!

For Worship Leaders Text 1Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne.Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone.Hark! the songs of peaceful Sion thunder like a mighty flood.Jesus out of every nation hath redeemed us by His blood. 2Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;Alleluia! He is near us,…