Sermons & Devotionals by Charles Wesley Hymns

Shepherd divine, our wants relieve In this our evil day, To all Thy tempted followers give The power to watch and pray. Long as our fiery trials last, Long as the cross we bear, O let our souls on Thee be cast In never ceasing prayer! The Spirit of interceding grace Give us in faith to claim; To wre... Read More

Sing to the great Jehovah’s praise! All praise to Him belongs: Who kindly lengthens out our days Demands our choicest songs. His providence hath brought us through Another various year: We all with vows and anthems new Before our God appear. Father, Thy mercies past we own; Thy still continued care;... Read More

Sinners, believe the Gospel word, Jesus is come your souls to save Jesus is come, your common Lord; Pardon ye all through Him may have, May now be saved, whoever will; This Man receiveth sinners still. See where the lame, the halt, the blind, The deaf, the dumb, the sick, the poor, Flock to the Frie... Read More

Sinners, obey the Gospel word! Haste to the supper of our Lord! Be wise to know your gracious day; All things are ready, come away! Ready the Father is to own And kiss his late returning son; Ready your loving Savior stands, And spreads for you His bleeding hands. Ready the Spirit of His love Just n... Read More

Sinners, rejoice: your peace is made; Your Savior on the cross hath bled: Your God, in Jesus reconciled, On all His works again hath smiled; Hath grace through Him and blessing giv’n, To all in earth and all in Heav’n. Angels rejoice in Jesus’ grace, And vie with man’s more favored race; The blood t... Read More

Sinners, turn: why will you die? God, your Maker, asks you why. God, Who did your being give, Gave Himself, that you might live; He the fatal cause demands, Asks the work of His own hands. Why, you thankless creatures, why, Will you cross His love, and die? Sinners, turn: why will you die? God, your... Read More

Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put your armor on, Strong in the strength which God supplies through His eternal Son Strong in the Lord of hosts, and in His mighty power, Who in the strength of Jesus trusts is more than conqueror. Stand then in His great might, with all His strength endued, But take,... Read More

Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God, And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. ’Tis Thine the blood to apply and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die hath surely died for me. No man can truly say that Jesus is the Lord, Unless Thou take the veil away... Read More

Stand the omnipotent decree! Jehovah’s will be done! Nature’s end we wait to see, And hear her final groan. Let this earth dissolve, and blend In death the wicked and the just; Let those ponderous orbs descend, And grind us into dust. Rests secure the righteous man; At his Redeemer’s beck, Sure to e... Read More

Stay, Thou insulted Spirit, stay, Though I have done Thee such despite, Nor cast the sinner quite away, Nor take Thine everlasting flight. Though I have steeled my stubborn heart, And still shook off my guilty fears, And vexed, and urged Thee to depart, For many long rebellious years; Though I have ... Read More

Talk with us, Lord, Thyself reveal, While here o’er earth we rove; Speak to our hearts, and let us feel The kindling of Thy love. With Thee conversing, we forget All time, and toil, and care; Labor is rest, and pain is sweet, If Thou, my God, art here. Here, then, my God, vouchsafe to stay, And bid ... Read More

This is Thy will, I know, That I should holy be, Should let my sins this moment go, This moment turn to Thee. O might I now embrace Thy all sufficient power, And nevermore to sin give place, And never grieve Thee more!... Read More

Thou God of glorious majesty, To Thee, against myself, to Thee, A worm of earth, I cry; A half-awakened child of man; An heir of endless bliss or pain; A sinner born to die! Lo! on a narrow neck of land, ’Twixt two unbounded seas I stand, Secure, insensible; A point of time, a moment’s space, Remove... Read More

Thou hidden source of calm repose, Thou all sufficient love divine, My help and refuge from my foes, Secure I am if Thou art mine; And lo! from sin and grief and shame I hide me, Jesus, in Thy Name. Thy mighty name salvation is, And keeps my happy soul above; Comfort it brings, and power and peace, ... Read More

Thou Judge of quick and dead, before Whose bar severe, With holy joy, or guilty dread, we all shall soon appear; Our cautioned souls prepare for that tremendous day, And fill us now with watchful care, and stir us up to pray. To pray, and wait the hour, that wondrous hour unknown, When, robed in maj... Read More

A thousand oracles divine Their common beams unite, That sinners may with angels join To worship God aright. To praise a Trinity adored By all the hosts above, And one thrice holy God and Lord Through endless ages love. Triumphant host! they never cease To laud and magnify The Triune God of holiness... Read More

Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love, Unmerited and free, Delights our evil to remove, And help our misery. Thou waitest to be gracious still; Thou dost with sinners bear, That, saved, we may Thy goodness feel, And all Thy grace declare. Thy goodness and Thy truth to me To every soul, abound, A vast, unf... Read More

Thy faithfulness, Lord, each moment we find, So true to Thy Word, so loving and kind! Thy mercy so tender to all the lost race, The vilest offender may turn and find grace. The mercy I feel, to others I show, I set to my seal that Jesus is true: Ye all may find favor, who come at His call, O come to... Read More

To us a Child of royal birth, Heir of the promises, is given; The Invisible appears on earth, The Son of man, the God of heaven. A Savior born, in love supreme He comes our fallen souls to raise; He comes His people to redeem With all His plenitude of grace. The Christ, by raptured seers foretold, F... Read More

Victim Divine, Thy grace we claim, While thus Thy precious death we show: Once offered up a spotless Lamb, In Thy great temple here below, Thou didst for all mankind atone, And standest now before the throne. Thou standest in the holy place, As now for guilty sinners slain; The blood of sprinkling s... Read More