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Learning to Live Inside Out

Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A

Here at the end of the Lenten observance (well, almost the end anyway), we have hints of Resurrection. We have “a foretaste of glory divine,” as the hymnist Fanny Crosby says. As if the Spirit and the lectionary preparers knew that we would need something to help us through the next couple of weeks. As if they knew that without this reminder, we would find it a very hard road as we made our way stumbling behind the Christ who suffers and dies for us.

The season of Lent is a time to journey inward and to focus on self-examination. Often, this is done through the practice of the disciplines of Lent – prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. However, this series helps us move in two directions – looking inward and moving outward. We are learning to live inside out.

Following are some hymns, songs, and anthems suited for this series and the biblical texts selected.

Abbreviations:

TFWS: The Faith We Sing
UMH: The United Methodist Hymnal
W&S: Worship and Song

Hymns or Service Music for the series:

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah UMH 127
Take Time to Be Holy UMH 395
Come and Find the Quiet Center TFWS 2128
Change My Heart, O God TFWS 2152
Open My Eyes UMH 454
Holy Ground TFWS 2272

Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A

Lord of the Dance UMH 261
This is a Day of New Beginnings UMH 383
Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door W&S 3095
Hymn of Promise UMH 707
Lead Me, Guide Me TFWS 2214
Oh, I Know the Lord’s Laid His Hands on Me TFWS 2139
Siyahamba (We Are Marching) TFWS 2235

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