Fifth Sunday of Lent
April 6, 2025
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Worship Series: "Steadfast Love: A Lenten Playlist"
from umcdiscipleship.org
A playlist? For the season of Lent? A Lenten playlist? What an odd idea. 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.
This is the Sixth service of a 10 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.
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This Service's Theme: "Fill Me with Laughter"The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
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Liturgical Resources
The psalm for this week has a hint of overcoming. While the psalmist doesn’t say much about what has been overcome, there is the remembrance of rescue.
Worship Planning NotesPreaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8;
Suggested Hymns . Music Notes . DM Accompaniments Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
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"Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"
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"Give to the Winds Thy Fears"
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"Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart"
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"Bless His Holy Name"
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"Joy Comes with the Dawn"
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"The Trees of the Field"