Songs for Lent

Whether you sing ancient hymns or more contemporary songs of praise, they can shape your worship throughout the season of Lent and into Holy Week. 

There is a wide variety of songs for Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday available in Lift Up Your Hearts hymnal as well as songs for Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday in Psalms for All Seasons.
 

Also see the Lent Resource Guide.

40 (I Waited Patiently) –  U2
Ah, Holy Jesus, How Have You Offended – Johann Heermann
Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed – Isaac Watts
Amazing Grace –  John Newton
Amazing Grace Chant – Stanley Jim
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) – John Newton, Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio
And Can It Be – Charles Wesley
At the Cross – Stephen Altrogge
Before the Throne of God Above –  Vicki Cook & Charitie Bancroft
Behold the Lamb of God – Mary Nelson Keithahn
Beneath the Cross of Jesus – Elizabeth C. Clephane
Bless the Lord, My Soul (Taizé)
Calvary – African American spiritual
Change My Heart O God –  Eddie Espinosa
Christ, the Life of All the Living – Ernst C. Homburg
Christ, We Climb with You the Mountain – Herman G. Stuempfle Jr. 
Create in Me a Clean Heart (Psalm 51), Anonymous
Cry of My Heart – Terry Butler
Friends in Faith – Delores Dufner
Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart – Henry Smith 
Glory to the Lamb –  Larry Dempsey
Go to Dark Gethsemane – James Montomery
God, Be Merciful to Me – Psalter 1912; Richard Redhead
God, Be Merciful to Me –  Psalter 1912, Christopher Miner
Good to Me – Craig Musseau
Great God, Your Love Has Called Us – Brian A. Wren
Holy and Anointed One – John Barnett
Humble Thyself in the Sight of the Lord – Ben Hudson
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us – Stuart Townend
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say – Horatio Bonar
I Lift My Eyes Up (Psalm 121) – Brian Doerksen
I Love the Lord – African-American Spiritual
I Stand Amazed – Charles H. Gabriel
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me – African-American Spiritual
I Worship You, O Lord (Psalm 30) – James Seddon, Calvin Seerveld
In Christ Alone – Stuart Townend & Keith Getty
In the Cross of Christ I Glory – John Bowring
Jesus, Friend of Sinners – Paul Oakley
Jesus Is a Rock in a Weary Land – African American spiritual
Jesus on the Mountain Peak – Brian Wren
Jesus, Remember Me (Taizé)
Jesus Set His Face – Gregg DeMey
Just As I Am without One Plea – Charlotte Elliott, William Bradbury
Knowing You – Graham Kendrick
Kyrie Eleison (many variations)
Lamb of God – Twila Paris
Lift High the Cross – George Kitchin, Michael Newbolt
Light the Fire – Bill Maxwell
Lord I Want to Be a Christian – African-American Spiritual
Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days – Claudia Frances Hernaman
Lord, You Have My Heart – Martin Smith
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling – Charles Wesley
Man of Sorrows—What a Name – Philip P. Bliss
My Jesus, I Love Thee – William Featherstone
Now Behold the Lamb – Kirk Franklin
O Christ, the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei of ancient liturgy)
O Lord, You’re Beautiful – Keith Green
O Love that Will Not Let Me Go – Georga Metheson, Christopher Miner
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded – medieval hymn
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus – Samuel Trevor Francis
Out of the Depths (Psalm 130) – Charles Purday
Perdón Señor (Forgive Us, Lord) – Jorge Lockward
Power of Your Love – Geoff Bullock
Refiner’s Fire/Purify My Heart – Brian Doerksen
Salvation Belongs to Our God – Adrian Howard
Sanctuary – John Thompson, Randy Scruggs
Shadows Lengthen into Night – Mary Louise Bringle
Somos pueblo que camina/We Are People on a Journey – tr. Carolyn Jennings
Swiftly Pass the Clouds of Glory – Thomas H. Troeger
Take My Life (Holiness) – Scott Underwood 
The Church’s One Foundation – S.J. Stone
The Power of the Cross – Keith Getty, Stuart Townend
The Wonderful Cross – Chris Tomlin, J.D. Walt, Jesse Reeves
There is a Redeemer – Melody Green
Throughout These Lenten Days – James Gertmenian, Thomas Tallis
To My Precious Lord – Chung Kwan Park
We Cannot Measure How You Heal – John Bell
We Are People on a Journey – Gregg DeMey
We Will Worship the Lamb of Glory – Dennis Jernigan
Were You There – African-American Spiritual
What Grace Is This – Laurie F. Gauger
What Wondrous Love Is This – American folk hymn
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – Isaac Watts
You are My Hiding Place – Michael Ledner
You Are My King (Amazing Love) – Brian Doersken
Your Mercy Flows – Wes Sutton

Read Greg Scheer’s “Meditations on Lenten Hymns”

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