Hymn suggestions for Sunday 14 September 2025
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Creation Time runs from 1 September to the feast of St Francis on 4 October. The resource hub hosts a range of resources for worship and reflection under the theme of Climate and Creation
The second Sunday in September is also Education Sunday in England and Wales. (In Scotland, Scripture Union offers resources for Back to School services, held in August.)
Readings are laid out as for the continuous form of the lectionary. Alternative related readings (OT and psalm only) are below. Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Jeremiah 4: 11-12, 22-28
Day of judgment! Day of wonder! (StF 732)
God moves in a mysterious way (StF 104)
God with us: Creator, Father (StF 8)
We pray until the hour, that awesome hour unknown (StF 741)
Psalm 14
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
A safe stronghold our God is still (StF 623)
As if you were not there, the skies ignite and thunder (StF 724)
How long, O Lord, will you forget an answer to my prayer? (StF 630)
Listening God, you hear us when we cannot speak (StF 524)
1 Timothy 1: 12-17
*Amazing grace – how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! (StF 440)
Father, whose everlasting love (StF 320)
I am not skilled to understand what God has willed, what God has planned (StF 349)
Immortal, invisible, God only wise (StF 55)
King of Glory, King of Peace (StF 56)
Let earth and heaven agree (StF 358)
Man of sorrows! What a name for the Son of God (StF 361)
Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362)
My song is love unknown (StF 277)
*Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (StF 83)
Through all the changing scenes of life (StF 638)
Luke 15: 1-10
All people that on earth do dwell (StF 1)
*Amazing grace – how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! (StF 440)
Come, let us sing of a wonderful love (StF 443)
Come, thou fount of every blessing (StF 494)
Come with me, come wander, come welcome the world (StF 462)
I will sing the wondrous story (StF 323)
Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided (StF 470)
Now I have found the ground wherein sure my soul's anchor may remain (StF 561)
The King of love my shepherd is (StF 479)
Alternative related readings
Exodus 32: 7-14
Bread of Life, Truth Eternal (StF 578)
God of forgiveness, your people you freed (StF 425)
Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult (StF 250)
O, the love of my Lord is the essence (StF 431)
*Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (StF 83)
Your ceaseless, unexhausted love (StF 438)
Psalm 51: 1-10
Hymns reflecting the psalmist’s theme
Blest are the pure in heart (StF 244)
Jesus the first and last (StF 329)
Just as I am, without one plea (StF 556)
Let us break bread together with the Lord (StF 592)
Lord, we turn to you for mercy (StF 429)
More like you, Jesus more like you (StF 505)
O for a heart to praise my God (StF 507)
Out of the depths I cry to thee (StF 433)
Rock of ages, cleft for me (StF 434)
Take this moment, time, and space (StF 513)