Into your hands we commend our spirit, O Lord;into your hands, we commend our hearts.For we must die to ourselves in loving you.Into your hands, we commend our love. O God, my God, why have you gone from me,far from my prayers, far from my cry?To you, I call, and you never answer me;you send … Read more
Hail, holy Cross of our Saviour,Hail, holy Cross of Christ!On his bleeding shoulder, Jesus bore you with love.Hail, holy Cross of our Saviour,sign of redemption and love.We sing the glory, the power of your name,through the Saviour’s Blood. Step by step he bore you with a heartall filled with love. Step by step, he wentto … Read more
Your only Son no sin to hide, but you havesent him from your side to walk upon this guiltysod and to become the Lamb of God. O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God,I love the holy Lamb of God.O wash me in His precious blood.my Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. Your gift of … Read more
How long, O Lord, will you hide your face?How long will the heavens be silent?How long, O Lord, must we call out your namestill, you hear us and reach out your hand? Behold your children, forgotten, forsaken,lost in our shame and our sadness.Our hearts are barren, our spirits are broken.Where is the love that you … Read more
Sweet Lord, grant by my tears, the sins of years,I may now wash out, O sweet Lord.Thy mercies still, with healing shower,O Lord, on me, pour. Nevermore will I from thee wander,never more holy graces squander, sweet Lord.I’ve strayed from thee, pity on me,Jesus, set me free. Sweet Lord, oft on thy child, thy grace … Read more
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,calling for you and for me;see, on the portals he’s waiting and watching,watching for you and for me. Come home, {2} ye who are weary, come home;earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,calling, “O sinner, come home!” Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,pleading for you and for me?Why should we … Read more
By the blood that flowed from theein thy bitter agony, by the scourge so meeklyborne, by thy purple robe of scorn: Jesus, Saviour, hear our cry, thou wertsuffering once as we. Hear the loving litany,we, thy children, sing to thee. By the thorns that crowned thy head,by thy sceptre of a reed, by thy footstepsfaint … Read more
Come to the Saviour, he waits for you;come with your heartache and care.Jesus will give you his wonderful peace,free you from guilt and despair. Come to the Saviour, he waits for you.Come without further delay.Jesus is waiting with arms open wide,Come to him now while you may. Come to the Saviour, he died for you,paid … Read more
Glory be to Jesus, who, in bitter pains,poured for me the life-blood From his sacred veins. Grace and life eternal in that blood I find:blest be his compassion, infinitely kind. Blest through endless ages be the precious streams,which, from endless torment, doth the world redeem. Abel’s blood for vengeance pleaded to the skies,but the blood … Read more
Just as a lost and thirsty deer longs for a cooland running stream, I thirst for you, the living God,anxious to know that you are near. Both day and night I cry aloud; tears havebecome my only food, while all around cruelvoices ask, { ‘Where is your God?’ {2} Broken and hurt, I call to … Read more