Easter Songs?

We all know that Easter is a few weeks away and I’m just wondering what you guys are all doing out there. What kind of stuff is your congregation doing for Easter? Here’s a list of songs that I’m mulling over in my head.

  • Oh Happy Day
  • Marvelous Light
  • The Wonderful Cross
  • Mighty To Save
  • All Because of Jesus
  • Lord, I Lift Your Name On High

So what ideas have you all come up with for Easter? Song-wise? Drama-Wise? Creative-Wise? I wanna hear about it… lets share the wealth.

UPDATE:

My thanks go out to MandoRon, Stephen Barry, Eric, Jason, Bobby, Tony Chavez, Stephen, Portorikan , WorshipCity, and of course Jeff Thompson for sharing what you guys are doing for Easter. Honestly, I’m so glad that we are able to share what we all are doing for this week because it gave me a glimpse into what you are planning and helped me think out side of my box. In fact you guys gave me some ideas that I didn’t have and helped me confirm others that I did have. So thanks for all the input guys. I’m glad that we all could share what we are planning for Easter. Anyway, here’s my final list.

1. All Beacuse Of Jesus - Fee 2. Happy Day - Hughes 3. Amazing Grace (MCAG) - Tomlin (Thanks to Worshipcity and Tony) 4. Marvelous Light - Hall 5. Christ the Lord is Risen Today - Our Arrangement Also in there we’ve got a childrens choir doing a song and we’re also doing the Everything Skit that Tony mentioned. It’ll be a great morning. I look forward to hearing how all of your stuff went when it’s all said and done with. Happy Easter!!!

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16 Responses to “Easter Songs?”


  1. 1 MandoRon Mar 12th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    GracePoint is doing:

    Let God Arise by Chris Tomlin
    My Redeemer Lives by Hillsong
    Salvation is Here by Hillsong
    What I’ve Done by Linkin Park (complete with a really cool video, I hear)
    The Beauty of Grace by Krystal Meyer

    Should be a pretty cool morning musically.

    We considered All Because of Jesus. We did The Wonderful Cross a year or two ago. Very powerful. This Man is another good Easter one.

  2. 2 MrsTostada Mar 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Lord I lift your name on high…. is that for real or a joke? Just wondering.. only because i know you.

  3. 3 stephen barry Mar 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Shout Unto God - Hillsong United
    Arise - Paul Baloche
    My Redeemer Lives - Hillsong
    In Christ Alone - Stuart Townend
    Happy Day - Tim Hughes
    Resurrection Day - Matt Maher
    Here is Our King - Crowder
    Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall
    Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin
    How Great is Our God/How Great Thou Art

    …still trying to make some final cuts, but these are some of the tunes we’re throwing around…

  4. 4 Victor Estrada Mar 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    kim, you’ll just have to wait and see if were singing Lord I lift Your name on high

  5. 5 eric Mar 13th, 2008 at 5:47 am

    overcome - desperation band!

  6. 6 Jason Mar 13th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    Alive- Dolly Parton
    Mighty To Save- Hillsong
    Creed- Third Day
    TBA

    It’s a short set but each one is like 7 minutes long so it evens out.

  7. 7 bobby Mar 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    On The Third Day - Matt Maher is a good one.

    There was an idea I love that came up in our creative meeting. We’re talking about God’s power today to resurrect the dead places in our own lives. We talked about flowers as a sign of life. We thought it would be cool for everyone to get a dead flower on the way in. They would have a chance to respond and get rid of their dead flower. Then on the way out, everyone gets a live flower to represent the new life that Christ can bring.

    I thought it was kinda cool. We’ll see if we can tie it all in and make the logistics happen though!

  8. 8 Tony Chavez Mar 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin - Service Opener w/ Choir
    Fix You - Coldplay - We will be doing this song with a video.
    Everything - Lifehouse - Will be done with a live drama.
    At The Cross - Hillsong - During Altar Call
    My Future Decided - Hillsong United - Final Song of the Service

  9. 9 stephen Mar 14th, 2008 at 3:33 am

    may be a little verbose for your people, but

    “See What A Morning”

    is an incredible Easter song.

  10. 10 portorikan Mar 14th, 2008 at 6:32 am

    We Have Overcome
    Here I Am to Worship
    At the Cross

  11. 11 johnnyb Mar 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    dude if I had a blog I wouldnt treat it like you treat your. You are a bad potential blogfather. Where’s my happy st patricks day? That’s ok, I never hit you up on cinco de mayo.

  12. 12 WorshipCity Mar 17th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Here’s what I’ve been mulling over:
    Happy Day - Tim Hughes
    Joyful, Joyful we adore Thee
    In Christ Alone - Matt Papa
    You’re Beautiful - Phil Wickham
    The wonderful Cross
    Amazing Grace (Chains are gone)
    Here I am to Worship
    I’m working on Christ the Lord is Risen Today with a real Coldplayish shuffle beat to it.

    Obviously that’s too many songs but that’s what I’m looking at.

    Oh we also found this video that Amena Brown did called Resurrection that is incredibly sweet!!! I highly recommend it!!

  13. 13 Jeff Thompson Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    We’re doing:

    Because of the Cross (up-tempo original)

    Nothing but the Blood (original arrangement inspired by The Killers’ “Bling (Confessions of a King” - check out the killer bass groove!)

    Then we’re showing the classic “That’s My King” video clip.

    Then we’re doing 2 classic songs with the full band and kids:

    Awesome God (Hillsong United version)

    One Way

    We try to be pretty close to what we do every week, so people get an idea of what our church is really like.

    Good luck with your service, bro!

  14. 14 eric Mar 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    my set looks like this

    Filled With Glory
    In Christ Alone
    Mighty to Save
    Before the Throne of God Above
    Christ the Lord is Risen Today

    SONGS of response (after message)
    Wonderful Merciful Savior
    Jesus Paid it All

    i’m having trouble with christ the lord is risen today. does anyone have a guitar friendly arrangement for this song?

  15. 15 WorshipCity Mar 19th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    My songs ended up being:
    Happy Day
    Joyful, joyful we adore Thee
    In Christ Alone
    You’re beautiful
    Wonderful Cross

    Christ the Lord is Risen today

    I do have a guitar friendlyish version of it. Think the drums from Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Maps. If you want it let me know.

  16. 16 Victor Estrada Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    Hey everyone, I love hearing what you all are playing and even got some ideas from you guys and confirmed other. Thanks for all the input. I’m glad that we all could share what we are planning for Easter. Anyway, here’s my final list.

    1. All Beacuse Of Jesus - Fee
    2. Happy Day - Hughes
    3. Amazing Grace (MCAG) - Tomlin (Thanks to Worshipcity and Tony)
    4. Marvelous Light - Hall
    5. Christ the Lord is Risen Today - Our Arrangement

    Also in there we’ve got a childrens choir doing a song and we’re also doing the Everything Skit that Tony mentioned. It’ll be a great morning. I look forward to hearing how all of your stuff went when it’s all said and done with. Happy Easter!!!

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