100 Hymns Everyone Should Learn

30. Rejoice the Lord Is King – Charles Wesley, 1746

Rejoice in glorious hope!
Jesus the Judge shall come,
and take his servants up to their eternal home.

29. God is here! As we your people – Fred Pratt Green, 1978

Here are symbols to remind us
of our life-long need of grace;
here are table, font, and pulpit;
here the cross has central place.
Here in honesty of preaching,
here in silence, as in speech,
here, in newness and renewal,
God the Spirit comes to each.

28. Come, Thou Almighty King – Anonymous

Thy sovereign majesty
may we in glory see,
and to eternity
love and adore.

27. For all the saints – William W. How, 1864

And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
and hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia!

26. Let all mortal flesh keep silence – Liturgy of St. James, 4th century; trans. Gerard Moultrie, 1864

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,
and with fear and trembling stand;
ponder nothing earthly minded,
for with blessing in his hand,
Christ our God to earth descendeth,
our full homage to demand.

25. When I survey the wondrous cross – Isaac Watts, 1707

All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.

24. Be thou my vision – Ancient Irish; trans. Mary E. Byrne, 1905

Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
thou and thou only, first in my heart,
great God of heaven, my treasure thou art.

23. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing – Charles Wesley, 1739

Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
late in time behold him come,
offspring of a virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the God-head see;
hail th’incarnate Deity,
pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.

22. Of the Father’s love begotten – Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, ca. 4th century; trans. John Mason Neale, 1851

Christ, to thee with God the Father,
and, O Holy Ghost, to thee,
hymn and chant and high thanksgiving,
and unwearied praises be:
honor, glory, and dominion,
and eternal victory,
evermore and evermore.

21. All people that on earth do dwell – Attr. to William Kethe, 1561

For why! the Lord our God is good;
his mercy is forever sure;
his truth at all times firmly stood,
and shall from age to age endure.