Text 1When on life a darkness falls,When the mist flows chilling,Paths and sign posts lost in doubt,Loveless, unfulfilling,Reach us, Jesus, from Your cross,Though we feel forsaken;Keep us through the aching nightTill new dawns awaken. 2When the dreams and vows of youthPainfully accuse us,Stab our conscience, steal our worth,Christ will not refuse us:Peace the world cannot…
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Text 1When Christ was lifted from the earth His arms stretched out aboveThrough every culture, every birth, to draw an answering love. 2Still east and west His love extends and always, near or far,He calls and claims us as His friends and loves us as we are. 3Where generation, class, or race divides us to…
Text 1There’s a Spirit in the air,telling Christians everywhere“Praise the love that Christ revealed,living, working in our world.” 2Lose your shyness, find your tongue;tell the world what God has done:God in Christ has come to stay,we can see His pow’r today. 3When believers break the bread,when a hungry child is fed:Praise the love that Christ…
Text 1Life is great! So sing about it,As we can and as we should-Shop and buses, towns and people,Village, farmland, field and wood,Life is great and life is given;Life is lovely, free and good. 2Life is great! What ever happens,Snow or sunshine, joy or pain,Hardship, grief or disillusion,Suffering that I can’t explainLife is great if…
Text 1I come with joy to meet my Lord,Forgiven, loved and free,In awe and wonder to recallHis life laid down for me,His life laid down for me. 2I come with Christians far and nearTo find, as all are fed,Our true community of loveIn Christ’s communion bread,In Christ’s communion bread. 3As Christ breaks bread for us…
Text 1Lord God, Your love has called us here,As we, by love, for love were made.Your living likeness still we bearTho’ marred, dishonored, disobeyed.We come, with all our heart and mindYour call to hear, Your love to find. 2We come with self inflicted painsOf broken trust and chosen wrong,Half free, half bound by inner chains,By…
Text 1Is this a day of new beginnings,Time to remember and move on,Time too believe what love is bringing,Laying to rest the pain that’s gone? 2How can the seasons of a planetMindlessly spinning round its sunWith just a human name and numberSay that some new thing has begun? 3Yet through the life and death of…
Text 1I am going to Calvary,Would you like to come with MeAll the way and back again?You must follow the Leader then.You must follow the Leader,You must follow the Leader,All the way and back again,You must follow the Leader. 2If I want a thorny crown,If the soldiers knock me downCan I really be a king?Love…
Text 1Christ is alive!Let Christians sing.His cross stands empty to the sky.Let streets and homes with praises ring.His love in death shall never die. 2Christ is alive!No longer boundTo distant years in Palestine,He comes to claim the here and nowAnd conquer every place and time. 3In every insult,rift, and warWhere color, scorn or wealth divide,He…
Text 1Christ upon the mountain peakStands alone in glory blazing;Let us, if we dare to speak,With the saints and angels praise Him:Refrain:Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. 2Trembling at His feet we sawMoses and Elijah speaking;All the prophets and the lawShout thro’ them their joyful greeting:Refrain:Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. 3Swift the cloud of glory came,God proclaiming in the thunderJesus…