Category: Sermon Songs

Have Your Own Way Lord

On By BrianIn Sermon Songs2 Comments

As I preached about praying together for two weeks, I needed a closing song that spoke of corporate prayer.  Alas, I couldn’t find one.  So I took a familiar hymn and wrote new words that gave us an opportunity to commit ourselves to pray together.  Here it is:

Have your own way Lord, have your own way
For our neglect please, forgive today
Whiter than snow Lord, wash us just now
As in your presence, humbly we bow

Have your own way Lord, have your own way
Your expectation, we must obey
Mold us and make us, with your grace fill
Grant us desire to, live out your will

Have your own way Lord, have your own way
Help us commit to, corp’rately pray
Rid our excuses, unity bring
Praying together, seeking our King

Have your own way Lord, have your own way
Like those before us, make us to pray
Gath’ring together, Lord may we see
Your awesome power, and your glory

 Have your own way Lord, have your own way
No more dead programs, hear us we pray
Fill with your Spirit, no more the same
Work through your people, for your great name

First lines of each verse and third and fourth lines of verse one adapted from the hymn Have Thine Own Way, Lord! by Adelaide A. Pollard.  To the same tune by George C. Stebbins, Public Domain.  Adaptations and new words by Brian Mikul, © Copyright 2011.

Now Marriage Is A Picture

On By BrianIn Family/Single Life, Sermon Songs1 Comment

Now Marriage Is A Picture

The Church’s one foundation, is Jesus Christ her Lord
She is His new creation, by water and the Word
From heaven He came and sought her, to be His holy bride
With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.

Now marriage is a picture, of Jesus and his bride
May our vows remain secure, may we in love abide
For Christ will never leave us, forsake us never he
As he is faithful to us, so faithful we must be

May sacrificial giving, be in our homes today
And true humble forgiving, and grace in all we say
For Jesus died to save us, forgive those gone astray
He pours his grace upon us, with more grace every day

Each husband love his own wife, and leading for her best
As Jesus gave his own life, to give us hope and rest
Each wife respect her husband, and joyfully submit
As we before the Lord stand, and gladly do commit

May each and every marriage, shaped by the gospel be
Forsake the gods of this age, worship the Lord only
All praises we would give you, for all that you have done
Forever we’ll adore you, Great God the Three in One

(First verse by Samuel J. Stone from the hymn The Church’s One Foundation, to the same tune by Samuel S. Wesley, Public Domain.  I wrote verses 2-5 to go with the Gospel Shaped Marriage sermon which I just blogged.  All rights reserved.  Copyright 2010.)