Good Friday
April 18, 2025
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Good Friday
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Good Friday
Stations of the Cross
Scriptural Way of the Cross
Crucifixion of Jesus
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Bethel Worship Planning Documents
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Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series
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but is provided here for your personal study and reflection. Click here for suggestions about how to use this material.
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 Ninth service of a 10 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.
The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
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This Service's Theme: "Do Not Be Far From Me"The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
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Liturgical Resources
This day is surely the most paradoxical of any on the liturgical calendar. Is that a controversial statement? Perhaps, but it seems true.
Worship Planning NotesPreaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 10:16-25; John 18:1-19:42;
Suggested Hymns . Music Notes . DM Accompaniments Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
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Hymns Selected For this service: .
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"Ah, Holy Jesus"
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"Give to the Winds Thy Fears"
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"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
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"Lord, Is it I?"
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"Stay With Me (Noho Pu)"