Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Profitable Hymns: First Line Index

I've decided the working title for my fourth book of hymns – at this writing, just starting to get underway – will be "Profitable Hymns for Meditation in the Lutheran Church, School and Home." I plan to add to this directory as the book grows, since experience with my past couple of volumes has taught me this is a (cough) profitable approach to keeping track of my progress and editing the material later. Eventually, it'll just sit here as, I hope, a helpful reference. It'll also be linked to the main Book Trolley page, where similar indices for the preceding books are already in place. And so, in ABC order:
Amend my heart, O Savior ... Penitence & Sanctification

Be it said in the waning of the days ... Winter Psalm
Bride of Christ, as fair and pure ... Song of Solomon 2

Christ, who passed through a desert place ... Temptation

Dearest child, do not despair ... Christ does not fail

For all things green and tender ... Spring Psalm
For heat that warms our aching bones ... Summer Psalm

God, infinite, incomprehensible ... Putting reason in subjection
God, who with might and skill ... Makers' Psalm
Gray was the disordered deep ... Color Psalm

How glad a consummation ... No fear of heaven

I am a beggar; this is true ... Luther's last words
I was not there when Jesus died ... Time & eternity

Leap, prophet yet unborn ... Advent / John the Baptist
Lo, the dewy stem grows dry ... Word of the Lord stands
Lo, what love the Father shows us ... Trinitarian love

O holy Mind, that did not think ... Having the mind of Christ
O human Soul of God the Son ... Passion Prayer
Oh, bitter bonds and labor ... Flavor Lament
Oh, golden harvest hour ... Autumn Psalm
Once, for all ... Holy Places

Rejoice, give thanks, and praise the Lord ... Wedding Anniversary

Shelter! Lord, give shelter ... Time of public unrest

This is indeed the day the Lord has made ... 'Indeed' (Easter)
This time is Yours, O Lord ... Worship Hymn

Word from all ages, Gift of truth ... Christmas
Word to a Virgin once was passed ... Sacramental Christmas
Would you see the Love of God? ... Look to Jesus

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