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Steadfast Love: A Lenten Playlist

Ash Wednesday, Year C

Ash Wednesday begins our Lenten journey, and it can be – needs to be – both an individual and a corporate experience.

Lent is often seen as a somber and even silent season. Certainly, there is space for contemplation, for embracing the quiet, for being still to seek out God. Many of us, however, find music a helpful tool for contemplation. So, we offer this playlist as another tool for your worship experience this season. We chose a song for each worship moment in the series from Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. We aren’t suggesting that these are to be used in worship, unless that fits your context. Rather, this is preparation work, thinking about making connections, about plumbing the depths of heart and soul, of the community of faith and the wider culture. However you use them, let music be a guide into worship this Lent.

Call to Prayer:

  • Nada te turbe TFWS 2054
  • Jesus, Remember Me UMH 488

Contemporary:

  • Lead Me to the Cross” (CCLI # 4785828)
  • Response: Lead Me, Guide Me TFWS 2214
  • Thank You, Jesus TFWS 2081

Contemporary:


Ash Wednesday, Year C

Ash Wednesday may not be about being “fixed”, but it is certainly an acknowledgement of the need to continue the journey toward being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

  • Fix Me Jesus UMH 665
  • Give Me a Clean Heart TFWS 2133
  • Sunday’s Palms Are Wednesday’s Ashes TFWS 2138
  • Give Me Jesus W&S 3140
  • Depth of Mercy! Can There Be UMH 355

Contemporary Suggestions:

  • “His Mercy Is More” by Matt Boswell, CCLI # 7065053
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  • “God So Loved” by We The Kingdom, CCLI # 7138599
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