Easter 5: Contemporary hymns

If you’re using the lectionary texts for worship on the fifth Sunday of Easter (May 22, 2011), here are some contemporary hymns that might be suitable.  You can find many of them on Hope Publishing’s Online Hymnody website.  A number of others may also be available through the CCLI website.

Psalm 31
Safe in the Shadow of the Lord, Timothy Dudley-Smith
I Trust the Lord for Safety, Christopher Idle
I Can On God Implicitly Rely, Fred Kaan

I Peter 2:2-10
We Are a New Creation, Jane Parker Huber
We Are Called to Be God’s People, Thomas A. Jackson
Church of God, Elect and Glorious, James E. Seddon
O God in Whom all Life Begins, Carl P. Daw
They Did Not Build in Vain, Alan Luff
Come Build a Church, Ken Medema
We Are God’s People, Bryan Jeffery Leech
Come, Great God of All the Ages, Mary Jackson Cathey
And Now the Work Begins, Brian Wren
Built on the Rock of Christ, Mary Louise Bringle
Church of the Living Christ, Shirley Erena Murray
Go Forth for God, J.R. Peacey

John 14:1-14
Set Your Troubled Hearts at Rest, Timothy Dudley-Smith
In Christ Alone, Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
The House of Faith has Many Rooms, Carl P. Daw
And Jesus Said, Shirley Erena Murray
Christ Be My Leader by Night as by Day, Timothy Dudley-Smith
If I Trust Him, Margaret Clarkson
Open Our Minds, O God, Carl P. Daw


For other song suggestions, see Natalie Sims’ Singing from the Lectionary website. 

For other worship resources for the fifth Sunday of Easter, click on Easter 5 in the list of “Labels” at the right side of the page.