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Hymn Source = The Hymnal and Order of Service (1925), The Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod
Paraphrase (1924) of Psalm 139:23 and 24 by Claus August Wendell (1866-1950)
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Search me, God, and know my heart,
Lord of truth and mercy;
Try me, Thou who from afar
Knowest all my secrets;
And if any wicked way
Should be found within me,
Blessed Saviour, lead Thou me
In the way eternal.
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The Service Book and Hymnal (immediate predecessors of the American Lutheran Church [1960] and the Lutheran Church in America [1962], 1958) also contains the above text verbatim.
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The Lutheran Book of Worship (immediate predecessors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [1987], 1978) modernizes the text and makes it the second verse of a composite hymn, with a new first verse (beginning with “Wondrous are your ways, O God!”) by Joel W. Lundeen. The modernized version of the text by Wendell follows:
Search me, God, and know my heart,
Lord of truth and mercy.
From afar, O Lord, you know
All my thoughts and secrets.
And if any wicked way
Should be found within me,
Cleanse, forgive me by your grace;
Grant me life eternal.
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Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1993) also modernizes the Wendell text and uses it as the second verse of a composite hymn. However, this hymn book alters the Lundeen text.
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The text by Wendell is absent from the current Lutheran denominational hymnals in my collection:
- Ambassador Hymnal for Lutheran Worship (The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, 1994),
- Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary (The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1996),
- Worship Supplement 2000 (Church of the Lutheran Confession, 2000),
- Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006), and
- Lutheran Service Book (The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, 2006).
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KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
JUNE 11, 2016 COMMON ERA
THE FEAST OF SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE, COWORKER OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE
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Above: Cloud Over a Mountain
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Text (1980; copyright, 1990), by David G. Mehrtens (October 18, 1930-January 11, 2010), a chemist and a Missouri Synod Lutheran
Hymn Source = The Presbyterian Hymnal: Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs (1990), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
The hymn is absent from Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal (2013), Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod resources, such as Hymnal Supplement 98 (1998) and the Lutheran Service Book (2006), also lack this text.
This hymn seems especially appropriate in the vicinity of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4).
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1. The world abounds with God’s free grace;
What wonders bless the land!
And on through boundless starry space,
God’s matchless works expand.
Lord, teach us an attitude that thanks You all our days,
A love that shows our gratitude through deeds that live our praise.
2. Give thanks for plains and valleys spaced
By mountains thrusting high;
Give thanks by fighting greed and waste
That drain their treasures dry.
Lord, teach us an attitude that thanks You all our days,
A love that shows our gratitude through deeds that live our praise.
3. In full thanksgiving for God’s love,
From which earth’s blessings flow,
Protect the precious air above,
The waters spread below.
Lord, teach us an attitude that thanks You all our days,
A love that shows our gratitude through deeds that live our praise.
4. Give thanks in hope, rejoice, repent,
And practice all you prayed;
True thanks can never be content
To foul the world God made.
Lord, teach us an attitude that thanks You all our days,
A love that shows our gratitude through deeds that live our praise.
Above: The Luther Rose
Scan by Kenneth Randolph Taylor
Anna Bernadine Dorothy Hoppe (1889-1941), of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was one of the best hymn writers and translators the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) produced. Her texts seem to have fallen out of favor with editorial committees recent North American Lutheran hymnals, however. My survey of the most recent denominational hymnals (1993-2006) among North American Lutherans has yielded the following results:
- Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary (1996, The Evangelical Lutheran Synod) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)–no Hoppe hymns;
- Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal (1993, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) and Lutheran Service Book (2006, The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)–one Hoppe hymn each; and
- Ambassador Hymnal for Lutheran Worship (1994, Association of Free Lutheran Congregations)–two Hoppe hymns.
Also, The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (1996, the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, a close relation to Scandinavian Lutheranism) contains one Hoppe hymn.
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By Nature Deaf to Things Divine:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/by-nature-deaf-to-things-divine/
Desire of Every Nation:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/desire-of-every-nation/
Eternal God, Our Father:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/eternal-god-our-father/
Have Ye Heard the Invitation:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/have-ye-heard-the-invitation/
Heavenly Sower, Thou Hast Scattered:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/heavenly-sower-thou-hast-scattered/
How Blest Are They Who Through the Power of Heaven-Kindled Faith:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/how-blest-are-they-who-through-the-power-of-heaven-kindled-faith/
I Open Wide the Portals of My Heart:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/i-open-wide-the-portals-of-my-heart/
Jesus, O Precious Name:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/jesus-o-precious-name/
Like Enoch, Let Me Ever Walk With Thee:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/let-enoch-let-me-ever-walk-with-thee/
Lord Jesus Christ, the Children’s Friend:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/lord-jesus-christ-the-childrens-friend/
O Dear Redeemer Crucified:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/o-dear-redeemer-crucified/
O Father Mine, Whose Mercies Never Cease:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/o-father-mine-whose-mercies-never-cease/
O Friend of Sinners, Son of God:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/o-friend-of-sinners-son-of-god/
O Precious Saviour, Heal and Bless:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/o-precious-saviour-heal-and-bless/
The Sower Goeth Forth to Sow:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/the-sower-goeth-forth-to-sow/
This Night a Wondrous Revelation:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/this-night-a-wondrous-revelation/
Thou Goest to Jerusalem:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/thou-goest-to-jerusalem/
Thou Hast Indeed Made Manifest:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/thou-hast-indeed-made-manifest/
Thou Lord of Life and Death:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/thou-lord-of-life-and-death/
Jesus, Thou from Death Hast Risen:
https://gatheredprayers.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/jesus-thou-from-death-hast-risen/
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Above: Wedding Rings
Image Source = Jeff Belmonte
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Wedding_rings.jpg)
Prayer Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006)
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O Lord Jesus, Your mercies are new every morning.
We thank You for another year of married life together for name and name.
Open their hearts always to receive more of Your love
that their love for each other may never grow weary
but deepen and grow through every joy and sorrow shared;
for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now forever. Amen.
Above: Lutheran Eucharistic Adoration
Image Source = Wikipedia
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Original German Words by Johann Heermann (1585-1647)
English translation from The Lutheran Hymnal (1941)
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Feed Thy children, God most holy;
Comfort sinners poor and lowly.
O Thou Bread of Life from heaven,
Bless the food Thou here hast given!
As these gifts the body nourish,
May our souls in graces flourish
Till with saints in heav’nly splendor
At thy feast due thanks we render.
The Constellation Orion
Image Source = Mouser
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Original words by Jochen Klepper (1903-1942); English translation (in 2000) by the Reverend Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. (1923-2007), a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1976-1989)
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1. I lie, O Lord, within Your care,
Awake or when I’m sleeping.
Whoever trusts in Your strong arms
Is safe within Your keeping.
2. Lord, You alone keep constant watch;
My restless heart You quiet.
When darkness fills the night with fear,
I will by faith defy it.
3. When shadows fall, I will not dwell
On troubles that distress me,
Nor let some painful memory
Embitter and oppress me.
4. It is enough that You are near;
I need not now discover
What hidden plans You have for me,
My future’s path uncover.
5. Tomorrow’s road I cannot trace
Nor know what ills will meet me.
You only ask that I be still
And trust You there will greet me.
6. Each dawning day to which I wake
Will show Your hand still guiding
And ev’ry good my life requires
Your grace again providing.
7. Though troubles still may cloud the sky,
I’ll see beyond them shining
A light to show some hidden way–
A way of Your designing.
8. Since You have gently touched my eyes,
I’ll sleep through tears of sorrow.
Though long the night, my God, my friend,
Will be my guide tomorrow.
A Hiking Trail
Image Source = Jonathunder
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhitewaterStateParkTrail2010.jpg)
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Words (in 1997) by the Reverend Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. (1923-2007), a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1976-1989)
(http://www.wfn.org/2007/03/msg00237.html)
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1. Lord, help us walk Your servant way
Wherever love may lead
And bending low, forgetting self,
Each serve the other’s need.
2. You came to earth, O Christ, as lord,
But pow’r You laid aside.
You lived Your years in servanthood;
In lowliness You died.
3. No golden scepter but a towel
You place within the hands
Of those who seek to follow You
And live by Your commands.
4. You bid us bend our human pride
Nor count ourselves above
The lowest place, the meanest task
That waits the gift of love.
5. Lord, help us walk Your servant way
Wherever love may lead
And, bending low, forgetting self,
Each serve the other’s need.
http://adventchristmasepiphany.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/week-of-7-epiphany-tuesday-year-2/
http://ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/week-of-proper-2-tuesday-year-2/
Apostles
Image Source = Stanp
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Words (in 1993) by the Reverend Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. (1923-2007), a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1976-1989)
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1. O Christ, who called the Twelve
To rise and follow You,
Forsaking old, familiar ways
For ventures bold and new:
Grant us to hear Your call
To risk security
And, bound in heart and will to You,
Find perfect liberty.
2. O Christ, who taught the Twelve
The truth for ages sealed,
Whose words and works awakened faith,
The ways of God revealed:
Instruct us now, we pray,
By Your empow’ring Word.
True teacher, be for all who seek
Their light, their life, their Lord.
3. O Christ, who led the Twelve
Among the desolate
And broke as bread of life for all
Your love compassionate:
Lead us along the ways
Where hope has nearly died
And help us climb the lonely hills
Where love is crucified.
4. O Christ, who sent the Twelve
On roads they’d never trod
To serve, to suffer, teach, proclaim
The nearer reign of God:
Send us on ways where faith
Transcends timidity,
Where love informs and hope sustains
Both life and ministry.
5. O Christ, th’apostles’ Lord,
The martyrs’ strength and song,
The crucified and risen King
To whom the saints belong:
Though generations pass,
Our tribute still we bring,
Our hymns a sacrifice of praise,
Our lives an offering.
Lamb of God
Image Source = Workman
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stained_glass_Agnus_Dei.jpg)
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Words (in 1997) by the Reverend Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. (1923-2007), a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1976-1989)
(http://www.wfn.org/2007/03/msg00237.html)
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1. How wide the love of Christ!
It knows not class or race
But upholds our one humanity
Within its broad embrace.
2. How long the love of Christ!
Its patience will not cease
Until this broken world is bound
In everlasting peace.
3. How high the love of Christ!
Beyond all thought it soars,
And yet upon our passing lives
Unmeasured mercy pours.
4. How deep the love of Christ!
Descending to a cross!
He bears within His wounded hands
All human pain and loss.
5. All praise to You, O Christ,
For love whose depth and height,
Whose length and breadth fill time and space
With endless life and light!
The Matterhorn
Image Source = Dirk Beyer
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Matterhorn_Riffelsee_2005-06-11.jpg)
Hymn Source = Lutheran Service Book (2006), of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Words (in 1997) by the Reverend Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. (1923-2007), a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1976-1989)
(http://www.wfn.org/2007/03/msg00237.html)
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1. Voices raised to You we offer;
Tune them, God, for songs of praise.
Hearts and hands we bring in tribute
For Your gifts through all our days.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Triune God, to You we sing!
2. All creation joins to praise You;
Earth and sky Your works display.
Art and music, gifts You lend us,
We return to You today.
Alleluia! Alleluia! God, Creator, source of life!
3. Christ, the song of Love incarnate,
Touching earth with heaven’s grace,
For Your living, suff’ring, dying,
For Your rising, hear our praise!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ, Redeemer, Lord of life!
4. Spirit, flaming, through creation,
Kindle faith within each heart.
Lift our voices high in chorus;
Through our hands Your love impart.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Spirit, Helper, breath of life!
5. How can any praise we offer
Measure all the thanks we owe?
Take our hearts and hands and voices–
Gifts of love we can bestow.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Triune God, to You we sing!
GATHERED PRAYERS 
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