Music Playlist
These are songs I enjoy about Jesus! I hope you’ll enjoy them too.
- “Hero” Abandon
- “Mighty to Save” Hillsong United
- “You Are My King (Amazing Love)” Lots of good versions, try Newsboys
- “The Power of Your Name” Lincoln Brewster
- “Forgiven and Loved” Jimmy Needham
- “Follow You” Leeland with Brandon Heath
- “Give Me Your Eyes” Brandon Heath
- “I Will Follow” Chris Tomlin
- “Rend” Great song from Jesus’ perspective / Jimmy Needham
- “Jesus Saves” Jeremy Camp
- “Lead Me to the Cross” Hillsong United
- “Via Dolorosa” Leeland
- “Gethsemane” Stuart Townend
- “Blessed Redeemer” Casting Crowns
- “In Christ Alone” Lots of good versions; try the one by Owl City
- “Behold the Lamb” Stuart Townend
- “Alive (Mary Magdalene)” Natalie Grant
- “Overcome” Jeremy Camp
- “Christ Is Risen” Matt Maher
- “My Jesus” Leeland
- “Give Me Jesus” Fernando Ortega
- “Jesus, I Come” Shelly Moore Band
- “Jesus Lover of My Soul” Hillsong
- “My Jesus, I Love Thee” try the version on “The Hymn Project”
- “Untitled Hymn (Come To Jesus)” Chris Rice
- “Your Great Name” Natalie Grant
- “Friend in You”, “Jesus Loves Ya”, and “Can’t Live Without Jesus” all old school soul songs by Jon Gibson
- “Jesus” and “Now Behold The Lamb” both by Kirk Franklin
And of course all those Christmas songs!
Here’s a fun one: “Born is the King” Hillsong
Recommended Books
If you liked this look at Jesus that combines travelogue, history, and geography, you might also like these books. I enjoyed them as I prepared for our Jesus Journey.
- Gary Burge, Jesus, The Middle Eastern Storyteller (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009). (Burge has a whole series of these books — I got a lot out of them.)
- Tim Keller, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus (New York: Dutton, 2011).
- Calvin Miller, The Book of Jesus (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1996). (A great digest of writings about Jesus throughout the ages)
- R. Wayne Stacy, Where Jesus Walked: A Spiritual Journey Through the Holy Land (Judson Press, 2001).
- Wayne Stiles, Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus, (Ventura: Gospel Light, 2008).
- Ray Vander Laan’s Faith Lessons DVD series (Grand Rapids: Zondervan).
- Peter Walker, In The Steps of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006).
- N. T. Wright, How God Became King (New York: HarperOne, 2011).
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