Religious Songs for Easter

[LittleNipper]

What a Beautiful Name / Agnus Dei --------

 

[LittleNipper]

ROLLED BACK STONE -------

 

[nota bene]

My favorite "Agnus Dei":

 

[EdwinWillers]

 

[LittleNipper]

Christ is Risen He is Risen Indeed -----

 

[nota bene]

It's too soon for Easter songs for me. First, the Cross, and then the Resurrection!

 

[EdwinWillers]

 

[EdwinWillers]

It's too soon for Easter songs for me. First, the Cross, and then the Resurrection!

We celebrate His death, burial, and resurrection weekly. For us, easter is every week. 👍

 

[MaryP]

It's not canonical, but I like

 

[nota bene]

We celebrate His death, burial, and resurrection weekly. For us, easter is every week. 👍

Well, when you put it that way, it's actually every day.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Well, when you put it that way, it's actually every day.

Amen. 👍

 

[nota bene]

Are you familiar with this hymn?



Here are the lyrics: https://hymnary.org/text/go_to_dark_gethsemane

Savior, teach us all to rise!

 

[Felis Leo]

Speaking as a non-Christian atheist, I do not know what is an appropriate Easter song. However, I find Jesus Christ the Apple Tree to be most moving.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Are you familiar with this hymn?



Here are the lyrics: https://hymnary.org/text/go_to_dark_gethsemane

Savior, teach us all to rise!

That is beautiful! Thanks!!

 

[LittleNipper]

The Beauty of the Cross ------

 

[Sweden]

The Beauty of the Cross ------

The cross was a means of inflicting a very painful and protracted death. It is no more "beautiful" than any other instrument of torture.

 

[LittleNipper]

The cross was a means of inflicting a very painful and protracted death. It is no more "beautiful" than any other instrument of torture.

Sweden, the reality is that it's not the cross that is beautiful but the fact that GOD HIMSELF subject HIMSELF to such torture to save me and perhaps you from an eternal separation from GOD which we rightly are deserving of. This is the beauty of that cross. HE could have stopped the show in the garden of Gethsemane. HE could have come off that cross; however, that would mean that we could not be saved. It was something that only HE HIMSELF could accomplish.

 

[LittleNipper]

Here are the lyrics to BEAUTY OF THE CROSS (Michael Neal)

Oh the beauty of the rugged cross
Drenched in mercy ever cleansing blood
There my sins forever swept away
In the torrent of that crimson blood.

Oh wonderous love that called me out by name
The ONE who made it ALL died to make a way
And every earthly gain I will count as loss
I am redeemed that's the beauty of the cross

O the healing of the rugged cross
Flowing down from mercies violent wounds
Every wound and every sacred scar
Laid on HIM so I could be made new

Oh wonderous love that called me out by name
The ONE who made it ALL died to make a way
And every earthly gain I will count as loss
I am redeemed that's the beauty of the cross

Oh the power of the power of the rugged cross
Where HE crushed the vile serpent's head
There my victory broke the curse of sin
Three days later cursed the sting of death

Oh wonderous love that called me out by name
The ONE who made it ALL died to make a way
And every earthly gain I will count as loss
I am redeemed that's the beauty of the cross

 

[LittleNipper]

The Crucifixion as prophesized in the book of Psalm 22:1-18

Psalm 22​

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1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.


And yet again in Isaiah 53 -- prophesized literally centuries before.

Isaiah 53:1-12​

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King James Version​

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1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

 

[Sweden]

Sweden, the reality is that it's not the cross that is beautiful but the fact that GOD HIMSELF subject HIMSELF to such torture to save me and perhaps you from an eternal separation from GOD which we rightly are deserving of. This is the beauty of that cross. HE could have stopped the show in the garden of Gethsemane. HE could have come off that cross; however, that would mean that we could not be saved. It was something that only HE HIMSELF could accomplish.

'Reality'? as in 'Reality TV"? That is to say totally fake?

 

[LittleNipper]

'Reality'? as in 'Reality TV"? That is to say totally fake?

You must be Swedish.

 

[RAMOSS]

You must be Swedish.

Oh boy, here you go with incorrect assumptions again. You would be wrong. He's Russian.

 

[LittleNipper]

Oh boy, here you go with incorrect assumptions again. You would be wrong. He's Russian.

But he calls himself SWEDEN. I didn't assume that. If I were Russian now, I'd likely call myself anything but that.

 

[Noodlegawd]

What a Beautiful Name / Agnus Dei --------

This is my favorite religious song.

 

[RAMOSS]

But he calls himself SWEDEN. I didn't assume that. If I were Russian now, I'd likely call myself anything but that.

Well, apparently he is an ex-pat.

It just goes to show you make too many assumptions.