This category of music has a beautiful dichotomy – the strained suffering of Gethsemane and Golgotha on Good Friday, and the glorious victory of the Resurrection on Sunday.
Below are some of my favorite pieces for these special services, and as always, this list include links to performance tracks, piano sheet music, and guitar chords.
Via Dolorosa (Sandi Patty)
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He was bleeding from a beating –
there were stripes upon His back
And He wore a crown upon his head
And He bore with every step
The scorn of those of those of
those who cried out for his death
Abide With Me (Matt Maher)
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There in the night, Gethsemane
Before the cross, before the nails
Overwhelmed, alone You prayed
You met us in our suffering and bore our shame
Abide with me, abide with me
Don’t let me fall, and don’t let go
Living Hope (Phil Wickham)
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Then came the morning that sealed the promise
Your buried body began to breathe
Out of the silence, the Roaring Lion
Declared the grave has no claim on me
See What a Morning (Keith Getty & Stuart Townend)
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See, what a morning, gloriously bright,
With the dawning of hope in Jerusalem;
Folded the grave-clothes, tomb filled with light,
As the angels announce, “Christ is risen!”
See God’s salvation plan,
Wrought in love, borne in pain, paid in sacrifice,
Fulfilled in Christ, the Man,
For He lives: Christ is risen from the dead!