Songs for Everything [In] Between: Music suggestions for Lent–Easter
Lent is a time in between—during these forty days, we spend time with Jesus between his ministry and his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, between the table and the garden, between the cross and the empty tomb. Here we’ve collected hymns and songs that work well with our Everything In Between Lent theme and weekly sub-themes that follow Jesus through the gospel of Luke. We hope these lists help you as you’re planning meaningful worship services for the Lenten season.
(Note: While we do not own the licensing rights to these songs—other than the hymns and theme song commissioned specially for this series—we have linked to more information about the hymnals containing these songs or to other licensing options. Since U.S. law does not allow churches to “broadcast” recorded music without a particular license to do so—including music played in YouTube and Facebook live services—we encourage you to share recorded songs with your congregation by sharing a link to the video or our Spotify playlist in bulletins, emails, or social media to avoid copyright strikes in livestream worship.)
Everything In Between Original Music
Theme Song, “Breathe, Listen, and Notice,” by Paul Vasile
This season, we’ve partnered with Paul Vasile to create an original theme song for Everything In Between. The sheet music and recording are available now to bundle patrons, and the music video will be available soon for purchase. Bundle patrons will automatically receive access to the theme song video when it is released.Original Hymns by Rev. Anna Strickland
Rev. Anna Strickland has written 5 original hymns (set to familiar hymn tunes) for the 1st through 5th Sundays in Lent. The tunes are all public domain, and the hymn texts are free for congregational use. You can download the sheet music and lyrics for these hymns here.
music for all season
Everything In Between: Meeting God in the midst of extremes
Songs for Listening, Preludes, or Special Music
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“When Our Minds Are Set and Certain” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2024) Tune: JEFFERSON (8.7.8.7 D)“In Christ There Is No East or West” [↗]
Public domain. Words: John Oxenham (1908) Tune: ST. PETER (8.6.8.6)“By Whatever Name We Call You” [↗]
Words: Dosia Carlson (1990) Tune: OGONTZ (8.5.8.5 D)“We Limit Not the Truth of God” [↗]
Public domain. Words: George Rawson (1853) Tune: OLD 22ND (8.6.8.6 D)“When Our Confidence Is Shaken” [↗]
Words: Fred Pratt Green (1971) Tune: GRAFTON (8.7.8.7.8.7)“Christus Paradox” [↗]
Words: Sylvia G. Dunstan (1984) Tune: PICARDY (8.7.8.7.8.7)“We Wear Our Knowledge Like a Shell” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2024) Tune: CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM (8.8.8.8)“I Am a Part of the Pulse of Creation” [↗]
Words and music: Colin Gibson (2013)
ash wednesday
Everything In Between: intention & action | Luke 9:51-62
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Pray With Our Feet” [↗]
Words and music: Paul Vasile (2018)“Take My Life, and Let It Be” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Frances R. Havergal (1874) Tune: HENDON (7.7.7.7.7)“The Summons” [↗]
Words: John L. Bell (1987) Tune: KELVINGROVE (7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6)“I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” [↗]
Public domain. Tune: ASSAM (10.10.10.8)“Young and Fearless Prophet” [↗]
Public domain. Words: S. Ralph Harlow (1931) Tune: BLAIRGOWRIE (13.13.13.13)“Lord, I Want to Be a Christian” [↗]
Public domain. African-American spiritual.“Dust and Ashes Touch Our Face” [↗]
Words: Brian Wren (1989) Tune: DUST AND ASHES (Irr.)“Should We Call Down Fire from Heaven?” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2022) Tune: IN BABILONE (8.7.8.7 D)“Somlandela (We Will Follow)” [↗]
Traditional Zulu.“Where He Leads Me” [↗]
Public domain. Words: E. W. Blandly (19th cent.) Tune: NORRIS (Irr.)
First sunday in lent
Everything In Between: stranger & neighbor | Luke 10:25-37
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“I Saw a Stranger” [↗]
Free use. Words: Anna Strickland (2024) Tune: KINGSFOLD (8.6.8.6 D)“O God, We Bear the Imprint of Your Face” [↗]
Words: Shirley Erena Murray (1987) Tune: TODOS LOS COLORES (10.10.10.10.10.10)“We Are Your People” [↗]
Words: Brian A. Wren (1973) Tune: WHITFIELD (Irr.)“From the Crush of Wealth and Power” [↗]
Words: Kendyl L. R. Gibbons (1992) Tune: BRIDEGROOM (8.7.8.7.6)“O God, You Give Us Neighbors” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2019) Tune: AURELIA (7.6.7.6 D)“Cuando El Pobre (When a Poor One)” [↗]
Words and music: Jose Antonio Olivar and Miguel Manzano (1976)“Who Is Thy Neighbor?” [↗]
Public domain. Words: William Cutter (19th cent.) Tune: DALEHURST (8.6.8.6)“I Come With Joy” [↗]
Words: Brian A. Wren (1970) Tune: DOVE OF PEACE (8.6.8.6.6)
*This hymn would be appropriate if you are celebrating communion on this Sunday.“God Welcomes All” [↗]
Words: John Bell (2008) Tune: AMEN THEMBA
*This short, simple refrain could be used as a choral call to worship, after passing the peace, or as a song of sending.
second sunday in lent
Everything In Between: faith & works | Luke 10:38-42
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Ministry and Presence” [↗]
Free use. Words: Anna Strickland (2024) Tune: EIN FESTE BURG (8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7)“In the Faithfulness of Service” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2024) Tune: AUSTIN (8.7.8.7.4.7)“Blessed Martha” [↗]
Public domain. Words: John Newton (18th cent.) Tune: O WALY WALY (8.8.8.8)“Martha Labored in the Kitchen” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2016) Tune: NETTLETON (8.7.8.7 D)“Here Within This Congregation” [↗]
Words: Jacque B. Jones (2012) Tune: BEECHER (8.7.8.7 D)“Many Gifts, One Spirit” [↗]
Words and music: Al Carmines (1973)“One Thing Only Mary Offered” [↗]
Words: Delores Dufner (2010) Tune: ONE THING (8.7.8.7)“Lord, Speak to Me That I May Speak” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Frances Ridley Havergal (1872) Tune: CANONBURY (8.8.8.8)“Sent Forth by God’s Blessing” [↗]
Words: Omer Westendorf (1964) Tune: ASH GROVE (6.6.11.6.6.11 D)“Sitting at the Feet of Jesus” [↗]
Public domain. Words: J. Lincoln Hall (1911) Tune: CONSTANCY (8.7.8.7 D)“We Are Part of Christ’s Own Body” [↗]
Words: David Bjorlin (2023) Tune: HOLY MANNA (8.7.8.7 D)“Take My Gifts” [↗]
Words: Shirley Erena Murray (1988) Tune: TALAVERA TERRACE (8.7.8.7 D)
*This hymn would be appropriate if you are celebrating communion on this Sunday.
Third sunday in Lent
Everything In Between: rest & growth | Luke 13:6-9
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Beneath the Soil” [↗]
Free use. Words: Anna Strickland (2024) Tune: WINCHESTER OLD (8.6.8.6)“Trust the Work” [↗]
Words: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Music: Paul Vasile (2019)“Let There Be Rest” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2023) Tune: SABBATICAL (9.9.10.8.9)“Be Rooted in Hope” [↗]
Words and music: Paul Vasile (2015)“Hymn of Promise (In the Bulb There Is a Flower)” [↗]
Words and music: Natalie Sleeth (1986)“Lord of Our Growing Years” [↗]
Words: David Mowbray (1982) Tune: LITTLE CORNARD (6.6.6.6.8.8)“Take Time to Be Human” [↗]
Words: Chris Shelton (2023) Tune: HOLINESS (6.5.6.5 D)“For the Fruits of His Creation” [↗]
Words: Fred Pratt Green (1970) Tune: AR HYD Y NOS (8.4.8.5.8.8.8.4)
fourth sunday in Lent
Everything In Between: lost & found | Luke 15:1-7
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Lost and Found” [↗]
Free use. Words: Anna Strickland (2024) Tune: BEACH SPRING (8.7.8.7 D)“Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Thrupp’s Hymns for the Young (1836) Tune: BRADBURY (8.7.8.7 D)“The Last, the Lost, the Least” [↗]
Words and music: David Lohman (2013)“Are You Lost?” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2024) Tune: CIVILITY (8.7.8.7 D)“Once a Sheep Was in a Pasture” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2022) Tune: HYMN TO JOY (8.7.8.7 D)“Our Father, We Have Wandered” [↗]
Words: Kevin Nichols (1980) Tune: PASSION CHORALE (7.6.7.6 D)“Loving Shepherd, Find Me” [↗]
Words: Lindy Thompson (2023) Music: Ken Medema (2023)“A Shepherd’s Voice” [↗]
Words and music: Alan J. Hommerding (2019)“There Were Ninety and Nine” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane (1868) Tune: THE NINETY AND NINE (Irr.)“What Kind of Shepherd Seeks the Sheep” [↗]
Words: Adam M. L. Tice (2012) Tune: FOREST GREEN (8.6.8.6 D)
fifth sunday in lent
Everything In Between: righteousness & mercy | Luke 19:1-10
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Righteous Mercy” [↗]
Free use. Words: Anna Strickland (2024) Tune: HYFRYDOL (8.7.8.7 D)“There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Frederick William Faber (1862) Tune: STUTTGART (8.7.8.7)“Zacchaeus Was a Tax Man” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2010) Tune: AURELIA (7.6.7.6 D)“Love for Enemies” [↗]
Words and music: Paul Demer (2020)“Pause, Zacchaeus, from Your Labors” [↗]
Words: Jacque B. Jones (2023) Tune: ZACCHAEUS TANGO (8.7.8.7 D)“Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Fanny Crosby (1868) Tune: PASS ME NOT (8.5.8.5 with refrain)“Si Fui Motivo de Dolor, Oh Dios” [↗]
Words: Sara Menéndez de Hall (1988) Tune: CAMACUA (10.10.10.4)“Just as I Am” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Charlotte Elliott (1836) Tune: WOODWORTH (8.8.8.8)“Zacchaeus, Hurry and Come Down” [↗]
Words: Delores Dufner (2014) Tune: BELOVED OF GOD (8.6.8.6.6)
palm/passion sunday
Everything In Between: shouting & silence | Luke 19:29-40
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“There Is a Time for Silence” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2020) Tune: ST. CHRISTOPHER (7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6)“Believe Out Loud” [↗]
Words and music: David Lohman (2010)“The Stones Cry Out” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2024) Tune: DEO GRATIAS (8.8.8.8)“O, Save Us Lord! Hosanna!” [↗]
Words: Chris Shelton (2018) Tune: ELLACOMBE (7.6.7.6 D)“Mantos y Palmas” [↗]
Words and music: Rubén Ruiz Ávila (1972)“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Jennette Threlfall (1873) Tune: ELLACOMBE (7.6.7.6 D)“All Glory, Laud, and Honor” [↗]
Words: Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans (c. 820), transl. J. M. Neale (1854) Tune: ST. THEODULPH (7.6.7.6 with refrain)“Speak Up” [↗]
Words and music: Richard Bruxvoort Colligan (2018)
maundy thursday
Everything In Between: power & humility | Luke 22:1-27
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Let No Ambition Rule Our Hearts” [↗]
Words: Chris Shelton (2012) Tune: TALLIS’ CANON (8.8.8.8)“Weary of All Trumpeting” [↗]
Words: Martin H. Franzmann (1971) Tune: TRUMPETS (7.6.7.6 D)“Lord Whose Love Through Humble Service” [↗]
Words: Albert F. Bayly (1961) Tune: BEACH SPRING (8.7.8.7 D)“Make Me a Servant” [↗]
Words and music: Kelly Willard (1982)“Christ is King! Let Earthly Powers” [↗]
Words: Sylvia Dunstan (1991) Tune: IRBY (8.7.8.7.8.7)
*Verses 1 & 2 may be sung during Holy Week, reserving verse 3 for Easter Sunday.“Now the Silence” [↗]
Words: Jaroslav J. Vajda (1968) Tune: NOW (Irr.)“Servant of All” [↗]
Public domain. Words and music: Charles A. Finch (1914)“Will You Let Me Be Your Servant” [↗]
Words: Richard Gillard (1977) Tune: THE SERVANT SONG (8.7.8.7)“The Virtue of Humility” [↗]
Words: Delores Dufner (1995) Tune: PUER NOBIS (8.8.8.8)
good friday
Everything In Between: acceptance & resistance | Luke 23:32-49
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Go to Dark Gethsemane” [↗]
Public domain. Words: James Montgomery (1825) Tune: REDHEAD NO. 76 (7.7.7.7.7.7)“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Bernard of Clairvaux (12th cent.), transl. James W. Alexander (1829) Tune: PASSION CHORALE (7.6.7.6 D)“He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word” [↗]
Public domain. African-American spiritual.“I Surrender All” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Judson W. Van DeVenter (1896) Tune: SURRENDER (8.7.8.7 with refrain)“There By the Cross, the Women Stayed” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2019) Tune: ST. CATHERINE (8.8.8.8.8.8)“Shadows Gather, Deep and Cold” [↗]
Words: Sylvia Dunstan (1995) Tune: ABERYSTWYTH (7.7.7.7 D)“Thy Way, not Mine O Lord” [↗]
Public domain. Words: Horatius Bonar (1857) Tune: INVITATION (6.6.6.6 D)“You Seize No Sword” [↗]
Words: Adam M. L. Tice (2013) Tune: ST. PATRICK'S BREASTPLATE (8.8.8.8)
easter sunday
Everything In Between: grief & hope | Luke 24:1-12
Hymns and Congregational Songs
“Morning Breaks, the World Awakens” [↗]
Words: Hannah C. Brown (2022) Tune: GREENING POWER (8.7.8.7.8.7 with refrain)“O Christ, Your Friends Were Gathered” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2015) Tune: AURELIA (7.6.7.6 D)“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” [↗]
Public domain. Words: George Matheson (1882) Tune: ST. MARGARET (8.8.8.8.6)“Now the Green Blade Riseth” [↗]
Public domain. Words: John Macleod Campbell Crum (1928) Tune: NOEL NOUVELET (11.10.10.11)
*A choral arrangement of this hymn by Paul Vasile is available here.“In the Cross of Christ” [↗]
Public domain. Words: John Bowring (1825) Tune: RATHBUN (8.7.8.7)“Surely He Has Borne Our Suffering” [↗]
Words: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (2016) Tune: RATHBUN (8.7.8.7)“Because You Live, O Christ” [↗]
Words: Shirley Erena Murray (1987) Tune: VRUECHTEN (6.11.6.11 with refrain)
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Rev. Anna Strickland
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Rev. Anna Strickland (she/her/hers) looks for the Divine in the everyday like treasure in clay jars and first encountered God in the integration of her spiritual self and artistic self. She is a native Austinite and graduated from the University of Texas where she now works in college ministry, especially serving LGBTQ students.