Hymn suggestions for Sunday 11 May 2025
- General:
- Lectionary
4th Sunday of Easter
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Acts 9: 36-43
Be still and know that I am God (StF 18)
Christ is alive! Let Christians sing (StF 297)
Deep in the darkness a starlight is shining (StF 625)
God give us life (StF 612)
Lord of life, we come to you (StF 651)
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain (StF 306)
When I needed a neighbour, were you there? (StF 256)
You call us out to praise you (website only)
Psalm 23
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (StF 626)
In heavenly love abiding, no change my heart shall fear (StF 736)
When circumstances make my life (StF 641)
Revelation 7: 9-17
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (StF 568)
*Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine (StF 548)
Community of Christ (StF 681)
*Father, in whom we live (StF 5)
Give me the wings of faith (StF 747)
In Christ there is no east nor west (StF 685)
The head that once was crowned with thorns (StF 312)
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy (StF 416)
John 10: 22-30
*Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine (StF 548)
Come, let us sing to the One (StF 2)
*Father, in whom we live (StF 5)
Father, we love you (StF 6)
I danced in the morning when the world was begun (StF 247)
Lord, we have come at your own invitation (StF 595)
Master, speak! Thy servant heareth (StF 666)
Jesus the carpenter, hanging on Calvary (StF 275)
The kingdom of God is justice and joy (StF 255)
A prayer that God may broaden our horizons
God of infinite wonder, whose love has no horizon and whose grace has no border, we open ourselves to your presence this day.
God of the minutiae, in whose company ‘insignificant’ has no meaning, we receive your blessings this day.
Raise our eyes from only that which is in front of us.
Lift our heads, that our vision may be broader and longer.
Sow seeds of passion in our hearts
and lay embers of hope in our lives
that we may never accept the concept of inevitable,
but instead cultivate communities of peace that live a language of possibility.
Helen Kirk, District Chair, Chester and Stoke-on-Trent District
A prayer that we depend on Christ for all things - Alternative Prayer
Let us depend above all things, O Christ, on your grace, desire in all things your love, rejoice at all times in your presence and delight through all undertakings in your glory.
John William Fletcher, John Wesley’s designated successor (1729-1785)