See also “A Lent Playlist.”
Popular Hymns
If numbers are included, they correspond to Our Great Redeemer’s Praise: A Hymnal for All God’s People.
- All to Jesus I Surrender (607) — aka “I Surrender All”
- Just As I Am (509)
- I Want a Principle Within (313)
- Take Time to Be Holy (316) — useful early in Lent when exhorting to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
- Tell Me the Story of Jesus (158) — not an ideal tune for Lent, but useful in some contexts for the First Sunday in Lent, “fasting alone in the desert”
- Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me (242) — good for use before communion; “Foul, I to the fountain fly; wash me, Savior, or I die”
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (221) — see alternative tune by Gettys
- Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed? (564; see also 231)
- Man of Sorrows (503)
- The Old Rugged Cross (236)
- Lead Me to Calvary (240)
- Jesus Paid It All
- Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross (241)
- Hosanna, Loud Hosanna (227) — for use on Palm Sunday
- All Glory, Laud, and Honor (228)
- O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (245) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- More coming soon
Lesser-Known Hymns
- Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (223) — especially fitting for First Sunday in Lent
- Forty Days and Forty Nights — especially fitting for First Sunday in Lent
- The Glory of These Forty Days — especially fitting for First Sunday in Lent; may be sung to the tune of Old 100th (the Doxology/Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow)
- Take Up Thy Cross (220)
- There Is a Green Hill Far Away (224)
- This, This Is He That Came (225)
- Lift High the Cross (226) — an incredible, underrated hymn!
- Ride On! Ride On in Majesty (229)
- To Mock Your Reign, O Dearest Lord (230)
- Behold the Savior of Mankind (232)
- What Wondrous Love Is This (233)
- Depth of Mercy! Can There be (234)
- Ah, Holy Jesus (235)
- According to Thy Gracious Word (238)
- In the Cross of Christ I Glory (239)
- My Song is Love Unknown
- To See the King of Heaven Fall (243)
- See the Destined Day Arise
- Go to Dark Gethsemane
- Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted
- We Sing the Praise of Him Who Died
- What Wondrous Love Is This
- O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done (244) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- ‘Tis Finished! The Messiah Dies (246) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow (247) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- Beneath the Cross of Jesus (248) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- Were You There? (249) — especially fitting for Good Friday
- More coming soon
Contemporary Songs
- Lord Have Mercy (For What We Have Done)
- His Mercy Is More
- Not In Me
- O God You Search Me
- The Power of the Cross (237)
- Gethsemane (Gettys’ Sing! Hymnal 805)
- More coming soon
Choruses
If numbers are included, they correspond to The Chorus Book: Contemporary and Traditional Favorites.
- Change My Heart, O God (64)
- Make Me a Servant (5)
- Yes, Lord, Yes (213)
- Soften My Heart (51)
- More of You (26)
- Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (25) — “the things of earth will grow strangely dim”
- As the Deer (41)
- I Give All to You (95)
- O Mighty Cross (132)
- O How He Loves You and Me (215)
- Surrendered, Completely Surrendered (143)
- Hosanna (117) — for Palm Sunday