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1 My song is love unknown, My Saviour’s love to me, Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, That for my sake My Lord should take Frail flesh, and die? 2 He came from His blest throne, Salvation to bestow; But men made strange, and none The longed-for Christ would know. But O, my friend, My friend indeed, Who at my need His life did spend! 3 Sometimes they strew His way,...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Matthew 25:1-13

Baptismal Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Colossians 2:10-14

1 Alas! And did my Saviour bleed, And did my sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head For such a worm as I? 2 Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown, And love beyond degree! 3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, And shut his glories in, When God, the mighty Maker, died For man, the creature’s sin. 4 Thus might I hide my blushing face While H...

1 Christ, the life of all the living, Christ the death of death, my foe, Who, Thyself for me once giving Into darkest depths of woe, By Thy death my ransom buying, Hast delivered me from dying: Praise and thanks shall ever be, Dearest Jesus, unto Thee. 2 Thou, O Christ, hast taken on Thee Scourges of the tongue and rod; Pain and scorn were heaped upon Thee, O Thou sinless Son of God. Thus didst Th...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Psalm 34

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on John 8:31-41a

1 Jesus, I will ponder now On Thy holy passion; With Thy Spirit me endow For such meditation. Grant that I in love and faith May the image cherish Of Thy suffering, pain, and death That I may not perish. 2 Make me see Thy great distress, Anguish, and affliction, Bonds, and stripes, and wretchedness, And Thy crucifixion; Make me see how scourge and rod, Spear and nails, did wound Thee, How Thou die...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Matthew 6:25-27

Part I 1 O world, see thy Life languish Upon the tree in anguish; Thy Lord and Saviour dies. The prince of power with meekness Submits in mortal weakness To blows, and jeers, and railing cries. 2 My Saviour, who hath wrought Thee Such pain, and who hath brought Thee Such sad and dire disgrace? By sin Thou art not tainted, Nor is Thy soul acquainted With evil like our fallen race. 3 I caused Thy gr...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on 1 Corinthians 10:23-33

Part I 1 A Lamb goes uncomplaining forth The guilt of all men bearing; ‘Tis laden with the sins of earth, None else the burden sharing. It goes its way, grows weak and faint, To slaughter led without complaint, Its spotless life to offer; Bears shame, and stripes, and wounds, and death, Anguish, and mockery, and saith: All this I gladly suffer. 2 This Lamb is Christ, the soul’s great friend, The L...

Part I 1 O Lord, when condemnation And guilt oppress my soul, Then let Thy bitter passion My doubts and fears control; Thou on the cross hast died for me, And in Thy love hast taken My sin and guilt on Thee. 2 O wonder passing measure To faith’s enlightened eye! For slaves it was the pleasure Of their own Lord to die. The mighty God stoops from on high For me, lost, ruined creature, And deigns as...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on 2 Timothy 3:10-17

PART I 1 O dearest Jesus, what law hast Thou broken, That such sharp sentence should on Thee be spoken? Of what offences must Thou make confession, Of what transgression? 2 With thorns they crown Thee; yea, they smite, they scourge Thee, With cruel mockings to the cross they urge Thee; Gall do they give Thee, harshly they decry Thee, They crucify Thee. 3 Whence come these sorrows, whence this mort...

1 When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast Save in the death of Christ, my God. All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood. 3 See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e’er such love and sorrow meet, Or...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Acts 4:1-13

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Revelation 12:7-12 for the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels

1 Jesus, refuge of the weary, Blest Redeemer, whom we love, Fountain in life’s desert dreary, Saviour from the world above: O how oft Thine eyes, offended, Gaze upon the sinner’s fall! Yet, upon the cross extended, Thou didst bear the pain of all. 2 Do we pass that cross unheeding, Breathing no repentant vow, Though we see Thee wounded, bleeding, See Thy thorn-encircled brow? Yet Thy sinless death...

1 O sacred head, now wounded, With pain and scorn weighed down, In mockery surrounded, With thorns Thine only crown: O sacred head, what glory, What bliss, till now, was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. 2 Men spit upon and jeer Thee, Thou noble countenance, Though mighty worlds shall fear Thee And flee before Thy glance. How art Thou pale with anguish, With sore abuse...

1 Let Thy blood in mercy poured, Let Thy gracious body broken, Be to me, O gracious Lord, Of Thy boundless love the token: Thou didst give Thyself for me, Now I give myself to Thee. 2 Thou didst die that I might live; Blessed Lord, Thou cam’st to save me; All that love of God could give He for Thy sake freely gave me: Thou didst give Thyself for me, Now I give myself to Thee. 3 By the thorns that...

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Romans 3:19-31

Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Ephesians 2:1-9

1 Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle, Sing the ending of the fray; Now above the cross, the trophy, Sound the loud triumphant lay: Tell how Christ, the world’s Redeemer, As a victim won the day. 2 Tell how, when at length the fullness Of the-appointed time was come, He, the Word, was born of woman, Left for us His Father’s home, Showed to men the perfect manhood, Shone as light amidst the gloom....

1 Alone Thou goest forth, O Lord, In sacrifice to die; Is Thy dread sorrow naught to us Who pass unheeding by? 2 Our sins, not Thine, Thou bearest, Lord; Make us Thy sorrow feel, Till in our pity and our shame Love answers love’s appeal. 3 This is earth’s darkest hour, but Thou Dost light and life restore; Then let all praise be given to Thee Who livest evermore. 4 Give us compassion for Thee, Lor...