NOTE: these old mixtapes have been replaced by an updated Lent Playlist which you can stream. But either way–Enjoy!

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Currently, in the church calendar, we are in the season of Lent. This time is generally marked by a deep introspection, meditation, and focus upon those dark and deep whispers in our hearts from which we spend the rest of the year trying to numb and distract ourselves. To serve us in this time, I have made a couple of mixtapes to aid in our meditations.

May we drink deeply the words of those crying out to God in these songs and let their music draw us to mourning for all the ways we have acted, such that our God had to die to deal with it. Feel free to download and share this as you like, and may it bless you this Lenten season.

Lent. | Click here to download or click play to stream

1. Kyrie* – Bifrost Arts
2. What Must Be Done – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
3. Come Ye Sinners, Poor & Needy – Anathallo
4. Please Forgive Me – William Fitzsimmons
5. Christ condemned to death – New York Hymns
6. Beloved – My Epic
7. I Asked the Lord If I Might Grow – Indelible Grace
8. Fishin’ – Takenobu
9. Twenty Three – Aaron Strumpel
10. Eighty-Eight – Sandra McCracken
11. I Will Wait for You There – Phil Wickham
12. The Burial | Selah – Cool Hand Luke
13. Rock of Ages – Bobby Horton
14. Needful Hands – Jars of Clay
15. Oh God, You Are My God (Ps63) – Fernando Ortega
16. Lo, the Storms of Life Are Breaking – Indelible Grace
17. Hosea – Shane & Shane
18. The Cut – Jason Gray
19. Untitled – Horse Feathers
20. Be Still, My Soul – Kalai
21. Christ, Or Else I Die – Red Mountain Church
22. Dead Man – Ben Pasley
23. Child of Dust – Thrice
24. Wake Up, O Sleeper – Cool Hand Luke
    

* The phrase “kyrie eleison” used in this song is greek for “Lord have mercy”. It’s thought to be one of the oldest Christian liturgical phrases. [Cover Art: from a lithograph series on Job by Czech artist Oldrich Kulhanek. Be sure to check out his other stuff; it’s incredible.] 

Lent. (vol.ii) | Click here to download or click play to stream

1. Hard Times – David Bazan
2. How Long (Love Constraining to Obedience) – Wayfarer
3. Profession – +/-
4. Last Chance (Psalm 88) – Jeremy Casella, Sandra McCracken, & Andrew Osenga
5. My Dove in the Clefts of the Rock, in the Shadow of the Cliff – Andrew Rose Gregory & The Color Red Band
6. Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed? – New York Hymns
7. Weary of Earth, Myself, & Sin – Red Mountain Church
8. Medication – Derek Webb
9. Lament – Balmorhea
10. Safe Place – Karla Adolphe
11. Undone – Aaron Strumpel
12. White as Snow – Jon Foreman
13. The Old Couple – Takenobu
14. Great is Thy Faithfulness – Ascend the Hill
15. Meet With Me – Melissa Littlepage
16. Bread of the World in Mercy Broken – Zac Hicks & Cherry Creek Worship
17. Cathedral – Kimberly Stoltzfus
18. Father is Late – Yann Tiersen
19. I Need Thee Every Hour – Aaron Hale & Friends
20. This Too Shall Be Made Right – Derek Webb