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Good Friday

by Gateway Hymns

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It’s twilight We’re headed to the garden just to finish off the night and its quiet. It’s not like any night or day There’s silence and Jesus has just gone off to pray He looked worried, he didn’t want to stay alone. So I’ll watch, but rest my head on this...stone Father take this cup from me if it is your will I imagine feeling abandoned when I sit still On many hills, on many days and nights I’ve prayed to you and you’ve been by my side Now I feel alone, I feel the weight of tragedy Father, behold! Your Son, I'm in agony I’m sweating blood, my body weeps, my friends sleep, I’m feeling weak. Father give me strength, the time is here, I hear the crowds, my friend is near. Simon, I needed you in prayer with me Never mind, just watch my betrayer kiss me.
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In dark gethsemane Where trees of olive grieve Jesus prays and weeps and pleads “May this cup pass over Me” In the stillness of the night The disciples close their eyes While on watch they could not keep The spirit’s strong, flesh is weak (Chorus) (Chorus) O Savior of the earth You came down in humble birth From glory everlasting to flesh and dust and dying O Savior of the world You willingly endured Our pain, our grief, our sorrows deep For healing peace to bring In an olive grove of fear A burdened lover kneels Passion shown with drops of blood Pouring out in anxious love In a garden dark now filled His friend now climbs the hill With a kiss the Christ betrayed He now marches to the grave (Chorus) 'In this garden of our tears We await the end of years When a Savior bathed in light Will restore this world from night.' 
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Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree! 'Tis the Christ by man rejected; yes, my soul, 'tis He, 'tis He! 'Tis the long-expected Prophet, David's Son, yet David's Lord; by His Son God now has spoken: 'tis the true and faithful Word. Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning, was there ever grief like His? Friends thro' fear His cause disowning, foes insulting his distress; many hands were raised to wound Him, none would intervene to save; but the deepest stroke that pierced Him was the stroke that Justice gave. Ye who think of sin but lightly nor suppose the evil great here may view its nature rightly, here its guilt may estimate. Mark the sacrifice appointed, see who bears the awful load; 'tis the Word, the Lord's Anointed, Son of Man and Son of God. Here we have a firm foundation; here the refuge of the lost; Christ, the Rock of our salvation, His the Name of which we boast. Lamb of God, for sinners wounded, sacrifice to cancel guilt! None shall ever be confounded who on him their hope have built.
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Oh my soul Oh my Jesus Judas sold you for 30, I’d have done it for less Oh my soul Oh my savior Peter denied you three times, But I have denied you more Pre-Chorus 1 As the nails went in, I was standing right there As you breathed your last I shook my head and cried CHORUS O my God what have we done? We have destroyed your son. Pre-Chorus 2 And the blood ran down I was standing right there And the water poured I shook my head and cried

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This album centers around Good Friday, beginning in the garden of Gethsemane and ending on the cross. We hope this is a resource that can be used by those in the Church.

With every download, a songbook is included.

An essay from Dr. Robbie Griggs from Covenant Seminary on why Good Friday.

Why Good Friday?

Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice;
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
(From In Memory of W.B. Yates by W.H. Auden)

It is good to celebrate Good Friday. Not because the events of Good Friday are good in themselves. No, we will receive no real comfort in the darkness of the tomb. We will find ourselves alone. It is good to celebrate Good Friday not because suffering is good, but because the Cross is inevitable. And the God who is good is nonetheless there in the dark.

We must practice getting to the bottom of darkness, because that is where we are all headed. In life, we are in death. We have need of knowing the darkness. Of getting acclimated to the arid landscape of our lives. So that we won’t be frightened. So that we will know that there—God is even and especially there.

It is in the midst of Friday that we must confess the goodness of God. It is in our imprisonment that we sing the song of freedom.

Dr. Robbie Griggs

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released March 9, 2018

Nick Dahlquist: Electric Guitar, Vocals
Jennifer Harris: Vocals
Craig Harris: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Brent Johnson: Piano, Keys
Eric Whitley: Cello
Pablo Rosales: Spoken Word

Produced and mixed: Brent Johnson - brentjohnsonmusic.com

Art work: Israel Wright, Mary Rosales

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Gateway Hymns is a project started by Craig Harris and Brent Johnson as a collaboration effort to supply music for the church.

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