English Lyrics [ The Servant King ] From heav’n You came, helpless Babe enter’d our world, Your glory veil’d, not to be served but to served, and give Your life that we might live. There in the garden Of tears, My heavy load He chose to bear. His heart with sorrow Was torn, ‘Yet not my will But Yours,’ He said. Come see His hands and His feet, the scars that speak of sacrifice, Hands that flung stars into space, To cruel nails surrendered. So let us learn how to serve, And in our lives enthrone Him. Each other’s needs to prefer, For it is Christ we’re serving. Refrain: This is our God, the Servant King, he calls us now to follow Him, To bring our lives as a daily offering of worship to the Servant King.
The hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first couplet of the second verse paraphrases Galatians 6:14a and the…
English Lyrics [The Church’s One Foundation][1]The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord;She is His new creation by water and the Word.From heaven He came and sought her to be His holy bride;With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.[2]Elect from every nation, yet one over all the earth;Her…
English Lyrics Refrain:All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and smallAll things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them allEach little flower that opens, each little bird that singsHe made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wingsThe purple-headed mountain, the river running byThe sunset and the morning, that brightens up the skyThe…
English Lyrics The King of love my Shepherd is,Whose goodness faileth never;I nothing lack if I am hisAnd he is mine for ever.Where streams of living water flowMy ransomed soul he leadeth,And where the verdant pastures growWith food celestial feedeth.Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,But yet in love he sought me,And on his shoulder gently…
“My Jesus, My Saviour – Shout to the Lord” is not a psalm but a contemporary Christian worship song. Here is a brief account of its background:Origin and Author: The song was written by Darlene Zschech. It emerged in the contemporary Christian music scene, which has been growing and evolving since the mid-20th century. Zschech…
English Lyrics Beauty for brokennessHope for despairLord, in your sufferingThis is our prayerBread for the childrenJustice, joy, peaceSunrise to sunsetYour kingdom increase!Shelter for fragile livesCures for their illsWork for the craftsmanTrade for their skillsLand for the dispossessedRights for the weakVoices to plead the causeOf those who can’t speakGod of the poorFriend of the weakGive us…