05/24/2026
Pentecost Sunday-Year A-May 24, 2026
Please drop a friendly greeting in the comments! That would be especially helpful to have a better idea of how many people are joining us online for worship.
Evangelical Lutheran Worship Setting 4, p. 147. Copyright 2006, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Published by Augsburg Fortress, Publishers. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress under license SB160753.
Our hymns today are public domain or are Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. We give thanks for our musician, Judy Bergquist.
GH- ELW 807-Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Text: Robert Robinson, 1735-1790, alt. Music: J. Wyeth, Repository of Sacred Music, Part II, 1813. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
HOD- ELW 800-Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart. Text: George Croly, 1780-1860 Music: Frederick C. Atkinson, 1841-1897. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
OH- ELW 686-We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1&4.. Text: William W. How, 1823-1897, alt. Music: L. Mason and G. Webb, Cantica Lauda, 1850. PUBLIC DOMAIN.
CH- ELW 396-Spirit of Gentleness. Text: James K. Manley, b. 1940. Music: James K. Manley. Text and music copyright 1978 James K. Manley. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved
CH- ELW 785-When Peace Like a River** Text: Horatio G. Spafford, 1828-1888. Music: Philip P. Bliss, 1838-1876. PUBLIC DOMAIN
SH- ELW 400-God of Tempest, God of Whirlwind. Text: Herman G. Stuempfle Jr., b. 1923. Music: John Hughes, 1873-1932. Text © 2000 GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing lyrics:
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
While the hope of endless glory
fills my heart with joy and love,
Teach me every to adore thee;
may I still thy goodness prove.
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I've come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, oh take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart Hymn Text:
Spirit of God, descend upon my heart,
wean it from earth, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, strength to me impart,
and make me love you as I ought to love.
I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no opening skies;
but take the dimness of my soul away.
Have you not bid me love you, God and King;
All, all your own, soul, heart, and strength, and mind?
I see your cross; there teach my heart to cling.
Oh, let me seek you and, oh, let me find!
Teach me to love you as your angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame:
the baptism of the heaven-descended Dove;
my heart an altar, and your love the flame.
Lyrics to We Give Thee but Thine Own:
We give thee but thine own, whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.
And we believe thy word, though dim our faith may be:
Whate’er we do for thine, O Lord, we do it unto thee.
Hymn Text for Spirit of Gentleness
Refrain: Spirit, Spirit of gentleness
Blow through the wilderness
Calling and free
Spirit, Spirit of restlessness
Stir me from placidness, wind
Wind on the sea
You moved on the waters
You called to the deep
Then you coaxed up the mountains
From the valleys of sleep
And over the eons
You called to each thing
"Awake from your slumbers
And rise on your wings." REFRAIN
You swept through the desert
You stung with the sand
And you goaded your people
With a law and a land
And when they were blinded
With idols and lies
Then you spoke to your prophets
To open their eyes. REFRAIN
You sang in a stable
You cried from a hill
Then you whispered in silence
When the whole world was still
And down in the city
You called once again
When you blew through your people
On the rush of the wind. REFRAIN
You call from tomorrow
You break ancient schemes
From the bo***ge of sorrow
All the captives dream dreams
Our women see visions
Our men clear their eyes
With bold new decisions
Your people arise. REFRAIN
Lyrics for “When Peace Like a River:
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll,
whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.
Refrain: It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control,
that Christ hath regarded my helpless estate, and hath shed his own blood for my soul. (Refrain)
He lives-oh, the bliss of this glorious thought;
my sin, not in part, but the whole,
is nailed to his cross and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! (Refrain)
Lord, hasten the day when our faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
the trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall descend;
even so it is well with my soul. (Refrain)
Lyrics for God of Tempest, God of Whirlwind
God of tempest, God of whirlwind, as on Pente-
Cost descend! Drive us out from sheltered comfort;
Past these walls your people send! Sweep us into costly service,
There with Christ to bear the cross, there with Christ to bear the cross!
God of blazing, God of burning, all that blocks your
Purpose purge! Through your church, Christ’s living Body,
Let your flaming Spirit surge! Where deceit conceals injustice,
Kindle us to speak your truth, kindle us to speak your truth!
God of earthquake, God of thunder, shake us loose from
Lethargy! Break the chains of sin asunder,
For earths’ healing set us free! Crumble walls that still divide us;
Make us one in Christ our Lord, make us one in Christ our Lord!
God of passion, God unsleeping, stir in us love’s
restlessness! Where the people cry in anguish,
may we share your heart’s distress. Rouse us from content with evil;
claim us for your kingdom’s work, claim us for your kingdom’s work.
