You Have Loosed My Bonds

The season of Lent this year centers on surrendering ourselves and allowing to be gathered up in Jesus as we journey through these forty days. It’s a time of introspection and reality checks, while we also hope for a future where we will be nurtured and held in the arms of Jesus. Jesus tells us how he wants to gather us up, like a mother hen gathers her brood. He wants us to claim him, to run to him, to be loved and cared for by him. But this is not to avoid the Lenten examination. Rather, it is to be able to endure it. Following are some ideas for music for this series to enhance and complement the readings. It’s a long worship series; and often it helps to have one or two theme songs that you can use in a variety of ways in worship to keep it interesting.

Abbreviations:

• The Faith We Sing - TFWS
• United Methodist Hymnal - UMH
• Worship and Song - W&S

Theme Song Suggestions:

• “Gather Us In” TFWS 2236
• “We Walk by Faith” TFWS 2196
• “Lord of All Hopefulness” TFWS 2197
• “How Great is the Love”

Service Music Suggestions:

• “Jesu Tawa Pano” TFWS 2273
• “On Eagle’s Wings” UMH 143
• “Jesus, Remember Me” UMH 488

Maundy Thursday - Do You Know What I Have Done?

• “Lord God, Your Love Has Called Us Here” UMH 579
• “In Remembrance of Me” TFWS 2254
• “What Wondrous Love Is This” UMH 292
• “As We Gather at Your Table” TFWS 2268
• “Come, Share the Lord” TFWS 2269
• “Jesus Is a Rock in a Weary Land” W&S 3074
• “There’s a Spirit of Love in This Place” W&S 3148
• “Draw the Circle Wide” W&S 3154