Grace, powerful, undeserved:
the favour, gifts of God –
though all we do he has observed,
our every word has heard,
he’s made a way of grace
and now he can embrace
repentant ones who truly come
asking he will atone
their sins by Christ’s spilt blood,
receiving grace from God:
listen! to all he says, believe
and life and grace receive.

Then may grace always lead us,
adoption undeserved –
by grace his teaching feed us,
be powerfully preserved.
He is the Gardener
who makes us holier,
he prunes away those things
those foolish harmful sins
by which we’ve been deceived,
his holy love have grieved:
listen! to all he says, believe
and life and grace receive.

Jesus said “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

Tune: SMx3

No other way to God
if Jesus is refused;
God has provided him as such,
and so if he’s abused,
there is no other way
that we can be made fit
to come to One so holy, pure
dressed in a clean outfit.

To meet a king you should
be tidy, clean, polite:
to meet the universe’s King
your life must be made right.
But that means all your past
that’s wrong must be wiped clean,
and gain new attitude of heart
where selfishness has been.

But only God, as Christ
could die to clear our guilt,
and give us life that loves his ways –
all through his own blood spilt.
No other route to God –
kind Jesus is the Way!
so turn to him for cleansing, life
repent and humbly pray.
Tune: DSM eg Diademata tune of ‘Crown him with many crowns’ by G Elvey

No room in the inn for the birth of the child,
will you give him room? with your God reconciled,
and hope he has room for you there in his heaven?
acknowledging, asking your sins be forgiven?

There’s room in his heaven for all who perceive
their guilt, now desiring his grace to receive,
redeemed by the price that he paid on the cross
in dying for sinners repentant like us.

So open the door of your heart, let him in
– the Saviour, your Maker, the almighty King.
There’s room in his arms now to shelter and shield
and feed with the nourishing truth he’s revealed.

Tune: 11 11 11 11 eg ‘Away in a manger’, or Houghton