We thank you, Lord, for gifts of song and for a faith that sings of Jesus Christ, Your Living Word, whose life all things redeems. He came to us as one of us, to know our joy and pain. We thank you for such lavish grace, his coming was our gain. We thank you Lord, for gifts of song and for a faith that sings of faithfulness upon a cross that bore sin's deadly sing. His steadfast love you met in love, to bear that awful pow'r. We thank you for such wonderous love, for faith in such an hour. We thank you, Lord, for gifts of song and for a faith that sings of grave clothes scattered in disuse across the empty tomb. Death swallowed up in victory, you raised him from the dead. We thank you for such mighty power that saves us in such dread. We thank you, Lord, for gifts of song and for a faith that sings of pow'r to raise us all to life, both now and at the end. And be it then or be it now, Christ comes both sure and true. We thank you for this gracious word: in him all things made new!