Hymns & Songs: Proper 12A

If you're looking for songs for worship on July 24, 2011, here are some traditional and contemporary hymn suggestions based on the lectionary texts for that Sunday (the sixth Sunday after Pentecost -- Proper 12A). 

Texts (and often music) for the songs marked with an asterisk (*) can be found on Hope Publishing’s Online Hymnody website.  They are legal to use if you have a CCLI, OneLicense of LicenSing copyright license. 

For more song suggestions for July 24, 2011, see Praise & Worship Songs: Proper 12A. 

Songs for Psalm 105:1-11, 45b

Come Rejoice Before Your Maker, Michael Baughen CCLI 647888  
Come with All Joy, Christopher Idle CCLI 647929
O Come, Loud Anthems Let Us Sing, based on Psalm 95, Tate and Brady
Great is Thy Faithfulness, Thomas Chisholm CCLI 18723
*I Am a Child of God, Mary Jackson Cathey (To NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD)
Jesus Calls Us Here to Meet Him, The Iona Community (text on p. 2-3)
Obey My Voice, Sheilagh Nowacki 
Praise the Lord! O Heavens, Adore HimFoundling Hospital Collection, 1796 
*The Heartfelt Praise of God Proclaim, Timothy Dudley-Smith


Songs for Romans 8:26-39

*Born by the Holy Spirit’s Breath, Timothy Dudley-Smith
Children of the Heavenly Father, Caroline Sandell Berg 
Christ Be With Me, Cecil F. Alexander 
    (Can be sung to the melody for “Children of the Heavenly Father.”)
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us, Stuart Townend CCLI 155811
How Firm a Foundation, John Rippon’s Selection of Hymns 1787  
*I Am a Child of God, Mary Jackson Cathey (To NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD)
Jesus Loves Me, Anna Warner 
*Lord Jesus, When My Courage Fails, Shirley Erena Murray
*Nothing in this World, Rusty Edwards
*Nothing is Lost on the Breath of God, Colin Gibson
*Nothing, Nothing in All Creation (Hope is Our Song), Shirley Erena Murray
Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, Samuel Trevor Francis 
Praise the Savior, Thomas Kelly 
*Since Jesus Gave His Life for Us, Joy F. Patterson (Tune: O WALY, WALY)
*What Is this Richness, Margaret Clarkson


Songs for Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

As the Deer, Martin Nystrom CCLI 1431
Bring Forth the Kingdom, Marty Haughen
*Come Learn of God’s Kingdom, Timothy Dudley-Smith
*Here’s What the Kingdom of God is Like, Christopher Idle
    (To the tune SKIP TO MY LOU.  Try with children?) 
Jesus Shall Reign, Isaac Watts 
*Like a Pearl of Great Price is the Kingdom of God, Christopher Idle
*Take Us As We Are, O God, Carl P. Daw
*The Kingdom of God, Grace Grindal
*To Think that Faith, Jane Marshall
*When Jesus Came Preaching the Kingdom of God, Fred Pratt Green
*When Jesus Came Preaching the Kingdom of God, Fred Pratt Green
*Worship Is for People, Daniel Charles Damon
You Are My All in All, Dennis Jernigan CCLI 825356 

For more creative worship resources for July 24, 2011 (the sixth Sunday after Pentecost), click on Proper 12A in the list of “Labels” at the right side of the page.