Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter...Your church may go all out on all four, but even if you just hit one, there's enough planning and prep to make your head hurt. Here are a few resources that you're more than welcome use, borrow and steal.
Eight Words:
A Good Friday Meditation
Before Christ said his 7 last words on the Cross, Luke wrote 8 words that are easily missed. Once you see them, you won't be the same.
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Printable Version
Resurrection Rewrites
For years and in many traditions, the hymns are often rewritten with new lyrics to fit a new season or topic. In our present day, with all the CCLI & sue-happy record companies, do we dare touch someone else's song with our own lyrics? Heck yeah. Here are two I messed with...
There are plenty of songs for the cross, but the resurrection is a little tougher. In a case like It is Well, the verses skip from the Cross to the Coming King. This is an additional verse written for It is Well.
It is Well - Easter version - leadsheet*
It is Well - Easter version - lyric*
A now classic is Tim Hugh's Here I Am to Worship. Christ work in the incarnation and cross is so simply and beautifully laid out here. However, to use it on Easter leaves us wanting a little. So this is an additional verse to Here I Am to Worship. The lyric sheet contains a suggested arrangement.
Here I Am to Worship - Easter version - leadsheet*
Here I Am to Worship - Easter version - lyric*
*Both new lyrics are (c) 2010 by Jon Nicol. It is Well is Public Domain. This arrangement of it is (c) Jon Nicol. You may freely use any these new lyrics as long as credit is given where credit is due (to all the writers dead and alive) and they are not sold.
