Sunday 23 April, 2017

2nd Sunday of Easter

Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading

Acts 2: 14a, 22-32

All hail the power of Jesu’s name! (StF 342)
All you that seek the Lord who died (StF 294)
Have you heard the good news? (StF 406)
Jesus - the name high over all (StF 357)
Man of sorrows! What a name (StF 361)

Psalm 16

Hymns that echo the psalmist’s theme

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (StF 545)
Jesus, lover of my soul (StF 355)
You give rest to the weary (StF 657)

1 Peter 1: 3-9

All I once held dear, built my life upon (StF 489)
And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Saviour's blood? (StF 345)
Author of faith, eternal Word (StF 457)
He has risen (StF 302)
Purify my heart, let me be as gold (StF 508)
Rejoice, the Lord is King! (StF 335)
The day of resurrection, earth, tell it out abroad! (StF 311)

John 20: 19-31

Christ be my leader by night as by day (StF 492)
Christ has risen while earth slumbers (StF 296)
Christ, our King before creation (StF 318)
Come, sinners, to the gospel feast (StF 401)
God of my faith, I offer you my doubt (StF 629)
God, when I came into this life (StF 535)
Lord Jesus Christ, your light shines within us (StF 37)
Safe, locked inside that upper room (website only)
This joyful Eastertide (StF 314)
Thuma mina (Send me, Lord) (StF 782)
When Easter to the dark world came (StF 316)
What peace is there for tarnished lives (websiteonly)
When our futures are uncertain (website only)

(Also see: No hymn for Thomas? )