Lenten Playlist

10 tracks from Michael Card

I was raised on the music of Michael Card. As a Biblical scholar, his lyrics (when not straight Scripture) are always profound, but it is his knack with melody that lifts the work. While his newer work cannot compare to the first few decades of his career, the discography he has amassed is unmatched.

As the glorious ordeal of Holy Week begins, here are ten tracks from Card’s albums that always come back to me at this time.

• “This Must Be the Lamb”

• “The Silence of God”*

• “Ride On to Die”

• “To a Broken God”*

• “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”*

• “Why”

• “In the Garden”

• “The Death of a Son”

• “Traitor’s Look”

• “Known by the Scars”

*not written by Michael Card