1. Lord of creation, to you be all praise!
   Most mighty your working, most wondrous your ways!
   Your glory and might are beyond us to tell,
   and yet in the heart of the humble you dwell.

2. Lord of all power, I give you my will,
   in joyful obedience your tasks to fulfil.
   Your bondage is freedom; your service is song;
   and, held in your keeping, my weakness is strong.

3. Lord of all wisdom, I give you my mind,
   rich truth that surpasses my knowledge to find;
   what eye has not seen and what ear has not heard
   is taught by your Spirit and shines from your word.

1. Speak, O Lord, as we come to you
   to receive the food of your holy word.
   Take your truth, plant it deep in us;
   shape and fashion us in your likeness,
   that the light of Christ might be seen today
   in our acts of love and our deeds of faith.
   Speak, O Lord, and fulfil in us
   all your purposes, for your glory.

2. Teach us, Lord, full obedience,
   holy reverence, true humility.
   Test our thoughts and our attitudes
   in the radiance of your purity.
   Cause our faith to rise, cause our eyes to see
   your majestic love and authority.
   Words of power that can never fail;
   let their truth prevail over unbelief.

1. Dear Lord and Father of mankind
   forgive our foolish ways;
   reclothe us in our rightful mind;
   in purer lives thy service find,
   in deeper reverence, praise.

2. In simple trust like theirs who heard
   beside the Syrian sea
   the gracious calling of the Lord,
   let us, like them, without a word
   rise up and follow thee.

3. O sabbath rest by Galilee!
   O calm of hills above,
   where Jesus knelt to share with thee
   the silence of eternity,
   interpreted by love!

1. Hear the call of the kingdom,
   lift your eyes to the King;
   let his song rise within you
   as a fragrant offering
   of how God, rich in mercy,
   came in Christ to redeem
   all who trust in his unfailing grace.

2. Hear the call of the kingdom
   to be children of light
   with the mercy of heaven,
   the humility of Christ;
   walking justly before him,
   loving all that is right,
   that the life of Christ may shine through us.

1. In the wonder of creation,
   when all nature shares one song,
   showing God’s imagination,
   all may see his love goes on.
   Through the Holy Story spoken,
   of God’s people called as one,
   gathered, exiled, saved and broken,
   this we learn: his love goes on.

2. In the Christ who died to save us;
   in God’s risen, living Son;
   through the Spirit, whom he gave us;
   this we know: his love goes on.
   In the telling of the gospel
   Matthew, Mark and Luke and John
   join the Church in testifying
   through the years: his love goes on.

3. From the perfect days of gladness
   when the sun has brightly shone,
   to the slog of working madness,
   all the while his love goes on.
   Through the times of harsh temptation,
   seeking strength but finding none,
   in our human desperation,
   mercy comes: his love goes on.

1. Break thou the bread of life,
   O Lord, to me,
   as thou didst break the loaves
   beside the sea.
   Beyond the sacred page
   I seek thee, Lord;
   my spirit longs for thee,
   O living Word!

2. Thou art the Bread of Life,
   O Lord, to me,
   thy holy word the truth
   that saveth me;
   give me to eat and live
   with thee above;
   teach me to love thy truth,
   for thou art love.

1. Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
   Longing for truth, we turn to you.
   Make us your own, your holy people,
   light for the world to see.

Christ, be our light!
Shine in our hearts.
Shine through the darkness.
Christ, be our light!
Shine in your Church gathered today.

2. Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
   Longing for hope, many despair.
   Your word alone has power to save us.
   Make us your living voice.

1. Here is bread, here is wine,
   Christ is with us — he is with us;
   break the bread, drink the wine —
   Christ is with us here.

2. Here is grace, here is peace,
   Christ is with us — he is with us;
   know his grace, find his peace —
   feast on Jesus here.

In this bread there is healing,
in this cup there's life for ever;
in this moment, by the Spirit
Christ is with us here.

1. Guide me, O thou great Jehovah,
   pilgrim through this barren land;
   I am weak, but thou art mighty;
   hold me with thy powerful hand:
   Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
   feed me now and evermore;
   feed me now and evermore.

2. Open thou the crystal fountain
   whence the healing stream shall flow;
   let the fiery, cloudy pillar
   lead me all my journey through:
   strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
   be thou still my strength and shield;
   be thou still my strength and shield.

1. God is here!  As we his people
   meet to offer praise and prayer,
   may we find in fuller measure
   what it is in Christ we share.
   Here, as in the world around us,
   all our varied skills and arts
   wait the coming of the Spirit
   into open minds and hearts.

2. Here are symbols to remind us
   of our lifelong need of grace;
   here are table, font, and pulpit;
   here the cross has central place.
   Here in honesty of preaching,
   here in silence, as in speech,
   here, in newness and renewal,
   God the Spirit comes to each.

Abba Father, let me be
yours and yours alone.
May my will forever be
evermore your own.
Never let my heart grow cold,
never let me go.
Abba Father, let me be
yours and yours alone.

1. Lord, you have come to the seashore,
   neither searching for the rich nor the wise,
   desiring only that I should follow.

O Lord, with your eyes set upon me,
gently smiling, you have spoken my name.
All I longed for I have found by the water,
at your side I will seek other shores.

1. Jesus calls us!  O'er the tumult
   of our life's wild restless sea,
   day by day his voice is sounding,
   saying: ‘Christian, follow me.’

2. As of old apostles heard it
   by the Galilean lake,
   turned from home and toil and kindred,
   leaving all for his dear sake.

3. Jesus calls us from the worship
   of the vain world's golden store,
   from each idol that would keep us,
   saying: ‘Christian, love me more.’

1. Give me the faith which can remove
   and sink the mountain to a plain;
   give me the childlike praying love,
   which longs to build thy house again;
   thy love, let it my heart o'erpower,
   and all my simple soul devour.

2. I would the precious time redeem,
   and longer live for this alone:
   to spend, and to be spent, for them
   who have not yet my Saviour known;
   fully on these my mission prove,
   and only breathe, to breathe thy love.

1. Master, speak! Thy servant heareth,
   waiting for thy gracious word,
   longing for thy voice that cheereth;
   Master, let it now be heard.
   I am listening, Lord, for thee;
   what hast thou to say to me?

2. Speak to me by name, O Master,
   let me know it is to me;
   speak, that I may follow faster,
   with a step more firm and free,
   where the Shepherd leads the flock
   in the shadow of the rock.

1. Lord of creation, to you be all praise!
   Most mighty your working, most wondrous your ways!
   Your glory and might are beyond us to tell,
   and yet in the heart of the humble you dwell.

2. Lord of all power, I give you my will,
   in joyful obedience your tasks to fulfil.
   Your bondage is freedom; your service is song;
   and, held in your keeping, my weakness is strong.

3. Lord of all wisdom, I give you my mind,
   rich truth that surpasses my knowledge to find;
   what eye has not seen and what ear has not heard
   is taught by your Spirit and shines from your word.