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This page is still undergoing additions of which I hope there will be many. I've just started with the hymn section.
I would also like to include Psalms and Scripture texts. |
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Appropriate Hymns |
Picking a hymn to testify to your personal faith, especially in the face of death, is so important. Don't let someone simply pick their favorites or guess what yours were. When we combine God's gift of music with the comfort of his powerful Word... what better way to communicate your love, hope, and faith in Jesus as the Resurrection and the Life.Below are choices from Christian Worship. They are here just as samples, and I ask that for the sake of copyrights, that you just listen to them for a sample. Please do not download them. The words are provided, because the text ought to be more important than the tune. | |
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Though an Advent hymn (as are the next couple),
this hymn testifies to the coming Bridegroom
and describes the home that awaits us."In that fair home shall never
Be silent music's voice."
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From Isaiah Chap. 40, God calls on his prophet
to "Comfort, comfort" his people.
"God will change their aching sadness
Into ever-springing gladness."How appropriate a hymn for a funeral! |
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Another hymn that anticipates the return of
our King, who will bring everlasting joy:"The King shall come...
When beauty gilds the eastern hills
And life to joy awakes." |
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The King who still bears the marks of the cross,
will come in glory. But he won't be alone!"Thousand, thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train." |
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Christmas Hymn for Children -
Appropriate for a child's funeral around
Christmas:"In paradise our songs renew
And praise you as the angels do." |
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Based on God’s definition of love in I Corinthians 13,
this is a reminder to our family that God’s love should
flow into love for one another, especially at this time of
loss. |
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A song of joy in the close relationship between
Christ and his saints: “Christ is our cornerstone; On him alone we build.
With his true saints alone The courts of heav'n are filled.” |
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A powerful hymn about God’s love
and grace poured out through the
Church, where:“Bells still are chiming and calling,
Calling the young and old to rest,
But above all the soul distressed,
Longing for rest everlasting.” |
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“Onward, then, without despairing!
Calm we follow at his Word,
Thus through joy and sorrow bearing
Faithful witness to our Lord.” |
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Thank God for the Church, which has
sustained your faith through Word &
Sacraments. Thank God for the fellow-
ship and opportunities to serve him. |
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In white they gather around the throne!
They sing their triumph songs now! |
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As saints we look forward to that glorious
celebration of triumph. |
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Blessed is the state of the saints!
They rest; they weep no more! |
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Though your lips will be silenced by
death, this song gives you one more
opportunity to tell the greatest story
ever told: "Of Jesus and his love." |
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If you have members in your family, who
do not know Jesus as their Savior, this
hymn reminds them that there still is room.
You would love to see them in heaven.
Christ has already earned a place for them.
Your arrival in heaven isn't going to fill
the final vacancy. The invitation is theirs,
too. |
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Abide with me has often closed an evening
worship service, comforting Christians as
they go off to their homes in the darkness
of night. How perfectly it symbolizes death
as we go off into the darkness of death's
night, led onward by the abiding presence
of our Lord. |
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Though this is an evening hymn, it reminds
us that even in death, Christ is the King
of kings. The same power that kept us in
life, teaches me to "dread the grave as
little as my bed." |
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Reminds us of the sweetness of this sleep.
No more tears, no more fears, only peace. |
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