Good Friday, 18 April 2025

Also see Holy Week – a Singing the Faith introduction

The Methodist Church in Britain's Lent theme this year is Soul Food. Worship resources for each week of Lent follow the lectionary readings as below. They include specially selected hymns and songs from Singing the Faith and elsewhere, as well as an opening liturgy, prayer ideas and activities. The theme for Good Friday is 'Soul Support'.

Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading

Isaiah 52: 13 - 52: 12

A man, despised and laughed to scorn (website only)
*Stay here where nails are driven (StF 282)
The desolate Messiah dies (StF 283)
We turn to God when we are sorely pressed (StF 640)

Psalm 22

Hymns echoing the psalmist's theme

Deep in the darkness a starlight is gleaming (StF 625)
How long, O Lord, will you forget (StF 630)
Why has God forsaken me? (StF 291)

Hebrews 10: 16-25

Come, let us use the grace divine (StF 549)
I’m accepted, I’m forgiven (StF 427)
Jesus is King and I will extol him (StF 327)
Praise to the holiest in the height (StF 334)
Son of God, if your free grace again has raised me up (StF 336)

or

Hebrews 4: 14-16; 5: 7-9

God, how can we forgive (StF 613)
Jesus, you ask that we forgive (website only)
Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362)
*When my love for Christ grows weak (StF 289)

John 18: 1 - 19: 42

Come and see, come and see (StF 270)
Here is a death (website only)
O Love divine, what have you done! (StF 278)
O precious sight, my Saviour stands (StF 279)
Pray for the Church, afflicted and oppressed (StF 711)
*Stay here where nails are driven (StF 282)
We do not hope to ease our minds (StF 717)
We'll walk with you (website only)
*When my love for Christ grows weak (StF 289)
Would I have answered when you called (StF 674)