Vocal Music
- Jesus, My Breath, My Life – K. Lee Scott
Instrumental Music
- O Man, Bewail Thy Grievous Fall – J. S. Bach
- Prelude in C, BWV 846 – J. S. Bach
- Christ, the Lamb of God – J. S. Bach
Congregational Music (all hymns from the Hymnal 1982 with the exception of those marked “R” which are from Renew.)
- Hymn 522 - Glorious things of thee are spoken (AUSTRIA)
- Hymn R 9 - As the Deer pants for the water (Martin Nystrom)
- Hymn 686 - Come, thou fount of every blessing (NETTLETON)
- Hymn 676 - There is a balm in Gilead (BALM IN GILEAD)
- Hymn 679 - Surely it is God who saves me (THOMAS MERTON)
- Hymn 685 - Rock of ages, cleft for me (TOPLADY)
- Hymn 690 - Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (CWM RHONDDA)
- Hymn S-35 - Psalm 95: The Venite (Jack Noble White)
Glorious things of thee are spoken (AUSTRIA)
John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace," wrote this hymn to educate his congregation about the Bible. Most classic hymns are Biblically oriented, and this text has references to Isaiah 33:20, Psalm 87:3, I Peter 2, Revelation 1, and Exodus 17:1-7, which describes the streams of living water, referring to the Israelites journey through the wilderness in today's Old Testament reading.
As the Deer pants for the water (Martin Nystrom)
Nystrom was at a Bible College in Dallas one summer when a friend challenged hymn to take up a fast. On the 19th day of the fast he found himself sitting at a piano trying to write a song. "I was simply playing chord progressions when I noticed a Bible on the music stand of the piano. It was open to Psalm 42. My eyes fell on the first verse of that chapter... As the hart (deer) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. After reading the verse I began to sing its message, right off the page. I wrote the first verse and the chorus of a song, pretty much straight through. The whole of the adventure was completed in a matter of minutes."
"As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after thee."
Come, thou fount of every blessing (NETTLETON)
In 1752, a young Robert Robinson attended an evangelical meeting to heckle the believers and make fun of the proceedings. Instead, he listened in awe to the words of the great preacher George Whitefield, and in 1755, at the age of twenty, Robinson responded to the call he felt three years earlier and became a Christian. Another three years later, when preparing a sermon for his church in Norfolk, England, he penned these words which have become one of the church’s most-loved hymns.
The imagery of Christ as the giver of living water reminds us of his encounter with the woman at the well in today's Gospel.
Surely it is God who saves me (THOMAS MERTON)
Isaiah 12 consists of two stanzas of praise (12: 1-3 and 4-6). Together they make up the "First Song of Isaiah," one of the "lesser" Old Testament canticles used by the medieval church. As songs of joy and praise for God's deliverance, these stanzas are the climax to a group of prophecies spanning Isaiah 7-11. In stanza 1, Isaiah 12:2 echoes Exodus 15:2 of the Song of Moses (see also 152), and 12:3 uses the "wells of living water" image, often a biblical symbol of salvation (John 4:10). Carl P. Daw, Jr., versified these passages in 1981 for The Hymnal 1982.
Rock of ages, cleft for me (TOPLADY)
There is a legend that Augustus Toplady was inspired to write this hymn after finding shelter from a thunderstorm in a cleft in a rock at Burrington Combe in Somerset, England in 1776. While evidence to support that story is lacking, it does provide a vivid image which echos the themes of both the Old Testament reading and Gospel.
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (CWM RHONDDA)
At the urging of a Welsh evangelist, under whom he was converted, William Williams began writing hymns as a Welsh Calvinist-Methodist. His brother Peter, who was later expelled from the church for heresy, provided the translation. The Exodus and the journey through the wilderness to Canaan is the basis of the hymn, with its reference to "the crystal fountain" being perfect for the Old Testament reading of Exodus 17.
John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace," wrote this hymn to educate his congregation about the Bible. Most classic hymns are Biblically oriented, and this text has references to Isaiah 33:20, Psalm 87:3, I Peter 2, Revelation 1, and Exodus 17:1-7, which describes the streams of living water, referring to the Israelites journey through the wilderness in today's Old Testament reading.
As the Deer pants for the water (Martin Nystrom)
Nystrom was at a Bible College in Dallas one summer when a friend challenged hymn to take up a fast. On the 19th day of the fast he found himself sitting at a piano trying to write a song. "I was simply playing chord progressions when I noticed a Bible on the music stand of the piano. It was open to Psalm 42. My eyes fell on the first verse of that chapter... As the hart (deer) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. After reading the verse I began to sing its message, right off the page. I wrote the first verse and the chorus of a song, pretty much straight through. The whole of the adventure was completed in a matter of minutes."
"As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after thee."
Come, thou fount of every blessing (NETTLETON)
In 1752, a young Robert Robinson attended an evangelical meeting to heckle the believers and make fun of the proceedings. Instead, he listened in awe to the words of the great preacher George Whitefield, and in 1755, at the age of twenty, Robinson responded to the call he felt three years earlier and became a Christian. Another three years later, when preparing a sermon for his church in Norfolk, England, he penned these words which have become one of the church’s most-loved hymns.The imagery of Christ as the giver of living water reminds us of his encounter with the woman at the well in today's Gospel.
Surely it is God who saves me (THOMAS MERTON)
Isaiah 12 consists of two stanzas of praise (12: 1-3 and 4-6). Together they make up the "First Song of Isaiah," one of the "lesser" Old Testament canticles used by the medieval church. As songs of joy and praise for God's deliverance, these stanzas are the climax to a group of prophecies spanning Isaiah 7-11. In stanza 1, Isaiah 12:2 echoes Exodus 15:2 of the Song of Moses (see also 152), and 12:3 uses the "wells of living water" image, often a biblical symbol of salvation (John 4:10). Carl P. Daw, Jr., versified these passages in 1981 for The Hymnal 1982.
Rock of ages, cleft for me (TOPLADY)
There is a legend that Augustus Toplady was inspired to write this hymn after finding shelter from a thunderstorm in a cleft in a rock at Burrington Combe in Somerset, England in 1776. While evidence to support that story is lacking, it does provide a vivid image which echos the themes of both the Old Testament reading and Gospel.
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (CWM RHONDDA)
At the urging of a Welsh evangelist, under whom he was converted, William Williams began writing hymns as a Welsh Calvinist-Methodist. His brother Peter, who was later expelled from the church for heresy, provided the translation. The Exodus and the journey through the wilderness to Canaan is the basis of the hymn, with its reference to "the crystal fountain" being perfect for the Old Testament reading of Exodus 17.
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