Constance Cherry

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CONSTANCE CHERRY (b. 1953) serves as Associate Professor of Worship at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana. She also is on the faculty of The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. Prior to her present position she served as both Director of Music and as pastor in local churches. She holds a B.A. in music from Huntington College, a Master of Music from Bowling Green State University, and a Doctor of Ministry in Christian Worship from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. One of her hymns texts, "When Will People Cease Their Fighting," now appears in six major hymnals. A collection of her hymns PROCLAIM NEW HOPE, (2001) Code No. 8044 is now available from the Hope Publishing Company. Two of her hymns including "When Will People" have been included in Hope's new hymnal WORSHIP & REJOICE (2001).

A Branch Connected to the Vine

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A Branch connected to the vine, producing fruit and useful wine, grows wild in vineyard fields of green, its greatest harvest yet unseen. Though now it grows and seems to be abundant in fertility, it is the pruner in the field who knows how much a bra...

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Christ, We Come with Joy and Gladness

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Christ, we come with joy and gladness as we witness love made new; hear the prayers of two united as their lives are joined in you. Seeking you to bond their marriage, they are trusting you to be in the cord which can't be broken, giving them the stren...

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Desperate One Who Lives in Pain

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Desperate one who lives in pain, lost and feeling great despair, drunken long, you hope to gain freedom from your load of care. Know the truth, oh thirsty soul: Jesus Christ will make you whole. Captive one, imprisoned by substances which cause you ...

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Faith Is Assurance, Hope of Things Unseen

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Faith is assurance, hope of things unseen, by which the whole of life has come to mean days that are rich with trust in Who is sure, nights that possess a confidence secure. By faith our people, living long ago, modeled a walk with God that we should ...

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God Hears the Children Crying

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God hears the children crying in hunger, pain, and fear, while able ones, denying them lives of childlike cheer, ignore the sounds of weeping, shut out the haunting cries, their ease and comfort keeping as mournful voices rise. God hears the cries of...

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In the Faces of the Needy

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In the faces of the needy, hungry, thirsty, there I see vividly the face of Jesus gently peering back at me. From my store-house I will offer food and drink as liturgy. In the shivering of the naked, their own arms wrapped 'round their frame, is t...

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O Lord, You Have Searched Me

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O Lord, you have searched me; O Lord, well you know me. When I sit and when I rise, you my ev'ry thought surmise; when I lay me down to sleep, You my precious soul will keep. And I ask in wonder: Refrain: Where can I go from your Spirit; Where can I ...

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O Unseen Presence by My Side

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O unseen presence by my side, companion on the way; bring comfort, you my welcome guide, when doubt my hopes betray. O Christ, your presence in the word of prophets, law, and psalm, reveals the Gospel I have heard and gives the needed calm. My Lord,...

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Our Father

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Our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth. As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, As it is in heaven, A...

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Our Noble Master, Brave and Strong

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Our noble master, brave and strong and worthy of the best, knelt to show his servanthood, and trusting his disciple would continue in this way, washed their feet that day. The washing of our feet this day displays the Savior's love, gives to us iden...

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Prayer Takes Place on Bended Knee

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Prayer takes place on bended knee, where I seek God earnestly; grief and joy flow from my heart- doing prayer, I learn the art. Prayer goes on throughout the day, conscious whisp'rings on my way; praising here, petition there, as I seek to be aware. ...

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Proclaim New Hope through Christ, Our Lord

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Proclaim new hope through Christ, our Lord; the Savior now provides it. For future days, in plenteous ways our hope in him sustains us. Christ calls us to unwavering love, commitment to those highest goals. and to the cause most noble. Proclaim new po...

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Rejoice, All Children of Faith

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Rejoice, all children of the faith, join in the praise above to God, who long ago began a gracious act of love. Optional Refrain: O pour over me the water as a sign that God lives in me, the world I do resign. The gospel message of our Christ has com...

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The God Who Placed the Sun and Moon

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The God who placed the sun and moon, magnificent and grand, has been the One whose sovereignty established them to stand throughout the ages known to us, and will continue still to oversee our days and years, God's purpose to fulfill. We focus on the...

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Transcendent God, beyond Finite World

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Transcendent God, beyond our finite world, majestic Other, who the heavens hurled, who with the cosmos sang and danced and swirled: In awe we exalt you; in love, embrace you. Endearing God, your presence always near, close as the sunset seems when it ...

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We Are Christ's Body

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We are Christ's body; we are his people. offering worship due his great name: act of devotion, prayer of communion, freedom and healing for which Christ came. We are Christ's body; we are his people, here in this place we give to our Lord, hearts that...

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We Sing, "To God Be Glory!"

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We sing, "To God be glory!" exuberant and bright, in reference to a story of God's great power and might. Our having then exuded a symphony of praise, we think our work concluded once we, our voices raise. Well might our God find pleasure when we God'...

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When the Call of God Is Sounded

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When the call of God is sounded like the ram's horn long ago, urging us to come, surrounded by the faithful whom we know, entering God's courts with praise, we our prayer as incense raise, and upon the cross we gaze coming in response to God. Next, th...

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When the Spirit's at the Threshold

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When the Spirit's at the threshold pausing for the moment right, I am caught in quandary two-fold: fear it won't and fear it might. Take not your Spirit from me! When I've envied others' freedom and Spirit's pow'r displayed, though a myst'ry of the Ki...

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When Will People Cease Their Fighting?

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By Constance Cherry

When will people cease their fighting? When will armies wage no war, nation conquer not their neighbor, weapons idle, used no more? When will guns and bombs be silent? When will captives be set free? All creation groans in longing for the world's true ...

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Woman Weeping in the Morning

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Woman weeping in the morning, "Where is my Lord?" Full of anguish, doubt, and mourning, "Gone my adored!" He whom soldiers tried to bury, Spoke to her and called her, "Mary". Her response she would soon carry: "Lord, I believe!" Locked behind the door...

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Worship Past and Worship Present

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By Constance Cherry

Worship past and worship present, worship that is yet to be, is the blessed invitation now and through eternity, for all beings in creation to engage in adoration as their holy occupation. Alleluia! Once upon a time eternal, long before our world was ...

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Years of Service Come and Go

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Years of service come and go, each God's purposes they show; every season plays its role, all in time will from the whole. Summer days of sun and heat, when the sky and ocean meet in horizons fair and blue, we, our dreams and plans renew. Autumn tree...

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Your Servant Comes This Hour

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Your servant comes this hour in true humility, believing in your call, O God, and answ'ring, "Lord, send me!" Your servant kneels in prayer, awaiting from above the touch which sets their life apart for ministries of love. Your servant stands this da...

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