New Easter Hymn - Dawn is Approaching by John Stuart

New Hymn for Easter

Dawn is Approaching

Tune: Morning Has Broken (Bunessan)

Dawn is approaching, sunrise is coming,

Darkness is broken, with the first light;

Death cannot hold Him, sin shall not bind Him,

Jesus is coming back to this life!

Great is God’s mercy, falling from Heaven
Like His first blessing, giving us Life.

Praise for the greatness of His forgiveness,
Grace in completing His sacrifice.

Here comes the sunlight, here comes the morning!

Gift of a new life for us, we pray.
Blessed with salvation, praise God this morning,

Christ’s Resurrection on Easter Day!

© John Stuart 2016

A New Hymn for Easter Day by John Stuart

Hail, This Ever-Blessed Morn!

Tune: Humility (Oxford) – John Goss

See in yonder garden tomb,

Gone is all the morning gloom.
See the Holy Son appears,

Promised from eternal years.
Hail, this ever-blessed morn;

Hail redemption’s happy dawn;
Sing through all Jerusalem:

"Christ is come alive again!"

Lo, within a grave He lay,

He who died at Calvary,
He who sacrificed His life,

Stands before the morning light!

Hail, this ever-blessed morn;

Hail redemption’s happy dawn;
Sing through all Jerusalem:

"Christ is come alive again!"

Sacred Savior, all divine,

What a precious love is Thine,
You who came from highest bliss

Down to sinners such as us.
Hail, this ever-blessed morn;

Hail redemption’s happy dawn;
Sing through all Jerusalem:

"Christ is come alive again!"

Reach and teach us, Holy Lord,

With Your Love and gracious Word,

Help us to embrace Your Way

On this new born Easter Day!
Hail, this ever-blessed morn;

Hail redemption’s happy dawn;
Sing through all Jerusalem:

"Christ is come alive again!"

Altered words of Edward Caswall

By John Stuart ©2016