Easter Music Resources and Holy Week Playlist

Apr 1, 2023 by Dave Doveton

By Brett McCracken, TGC.

Next week, over 2.3 billion people around the world—in over 200 nations and on every continent—will gather to sing about and worship a first-century Galilean peasant who was executed along with two thieves in Roman-occupied Jerusalem.

From cathedrals in Chile to house churches in China, from Korean megachurches to tiny congregations in the Yukon, believers of every conceivable background will gather to confess a singular creed: the lowly Jesus of Nazareth was in fact God in the flesh, he defied the laws of nature and rose from the dead, and he offers eternal life to all who confess him as their Lord and Savior.

If the rituals of Easter are too familiar to us, we might not be shocked reading the above paragraphs. But strip away the pastel festivities and we’re confronted with the wild reality of what Christianity is and how for 2,000 years it has reached farther and shaped more than anything else in history. In a season of chocolate eggs and gelatinous yellow bunnies, we can easily miss the mind-blowing wonder—and cosmic consequences—of what transpired that week, two millennia ago.

Music can help remind us. Indeed, for 2,000 years, music has been central to Christian congregational worship. Among the benefits of music in worship is its power to inculcate the truth of our confession—not only in our minds but also in our bodies, tuning our hearts to sing God’s praise. As we enter this significant week in the Christian calendar, music can reenchant us to the unprecedented beauty and cosmic scope of what Easter means.

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Easter Music from English Cathedrals on Spotify