Hymns and Songs: Proper 13A

If you're looking for songs for worship on July 31, 2011, here are some traditional and contemporary hymn suggestions based on the lectionary texts for that Sunday (the seventh Sunday after Pentecost -- Proper 13A). 

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 other song suggestions for July 31, 2011, see Praise & Worship Songs: Proper 13A.

Song Suggestions for Genesis 32:22-31

Bless Now, O God, the Journey, Sylvia Dunstan

Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown, Charles Wesley

*Life Has No Mystery As Great, Fred Pratt Green (wrestling with God)

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

*Surely It Is God Who Saves Me, Carl P. Daw

Wrestling Jacob (spiritual) 

Song Suggestions for Psalm 17:1-7, 15

Have Thine Own Way Lord, Adelaide Pollard 

Hear Our Prayer, O God (Oyenos, mi Dios), Owen Alstott 

Hear Our Prayer, O Lord, Psalm 143:1, George Whelpton

I Then Shall Live, Gloria Gaither 

Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying, Ken Medema CCLI 22829

O Lord, Hear My Prayer, Taize 

Search Me, O God, J. Edwin Orr 

Song Suggestions for Romans 9:1-5

Hope of the World, Georgia Harkness  

            (See text and alternate music arrangement here.) 

*The Countless Stars of Heaven, Christopher Idle

Song Suggestions for Matthew 14:13-21

*Bread of Life, Rusty Edwards, Ray Makeever

Break Thou the Bread of Life, Mary A. Lathbury CCLI 128338 

Eat This Bread, Taize 

*Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ, Fred Kaan

Five Barley Loaves, Betty Carr Pulkingham CCLI 356382

All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly, Sylvia Dunstan

I Received the Living God, anonymous. Listen here. 

We Come to the Hungry Feast, Ray Makeever  (text page five)

Here is Bread, Graham Kendrick

*Jesus, Come! For We Invite You, Christopher Idle

*For the Crowd of Thousands, Fred Kaan

*The Church of Christ in Every Age, Fred Pratt Green

*Gather Up the Scattered Fragments, Carl P. Daw

*Take Us As We Are, O God, Carl P. Daw

*Crowds Followed Yesu, Tom Colvin

*The Poor Are Served, Tom Colvin

*What Have You Here to Eat? Carl P. Daw

Hope of the World, Georgia Harkness  

            (See text and alternate music arrangement here.) 

Song Suggestions for Isaiah 55:1-5

O Let All Who Thirst, John B. Foley 

All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly, Sylvia Dunstan 

I Received the Living God, anonymous  Listen here. 

We Come to the Hungry Feast, Ray Makeever (text page five)

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah, William Willams

Here is Bread, Graham Kendrick 

I Am the Bread of Life, Suzanne Toolan

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, Horatius Bonar 

Jesus, the Joy of Loving Hearts, Bernard of Clairvaux/Ray Palmer

Rain Down, Jaime Cortez 

Come Away from Rush and Hurry, Marva Dawn

*From All the Wind’s Wide Quarters, Timothy Dudley-Smith

*All Who Are Thirsty, Michael Perry

*As Water to the Thirsty, Timothy Dudley-Smith

Satisfied (All my life long I had panted), Clara Williams 

Hope of the World, Georgia Harkness  

            (See text and alternate music arrangement here.) 

Your Kingdom Come, Jane Parker Huber

Song Suggestions for Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21

All Creatures of Our God and King, St. Francis of Assisi/William Draper 

All the Way My Saviour Leads Me, Fanny Crosby 

All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly, Sylvia Dunstan

Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord (Mendelssohn), from Elijah 

I Received the Living God, anonymous. Listen here. 

O God Beyond All Praising, Michael Perry 

O Worship the King, Robert Grant 

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, Joachim Neander/Catherine Winkworth 

Rain Down, Jaime Cortez 

We Come to the Hungry Feast, Ray Makeever (text page five)

We Plough the Fields, Matthias Claudius 

Your Faithfulness, O Lord, Is Sure, Joy F. Patterson 

For more worship resources related to the scripture passages for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost (July 31, 2011), click on Proper 13A in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page.