Here are some suggestions for contemporary hymns you might consider using on Pentecost (June 1 2 , 2 01 1
Songs marked with an asterisk (*) are available online at Hope Publishing Company’s Online Hymnody website. They are legal to use in worship if you are subscribed to CCLI, LicenSing or OneLicense.
Songs with links will either point you to online lyrics or YouTube performances, or will send you to websites with more information on the song.
Looking for other music suggestions for Pentecost Sunday? Try one of these:
As Grain on Scattered Hillsides, Ruth Duck
*Burn in Me, Fire of God, Margaret Clarkson
Come Build a Church, Ken Medema
Come Holy Spirit, John Michael Talbot CCLI 4 5 6 6 2 2
*Come, Holy Spirit, Brian Wren
Come Holy Spirit, Loralee Thiessen CCLI 1 3 1 7 2 3 4
Come Holy Spirit, Timothy Dudley-Smith/Allen Pote CCLI 5 7 4 5 6 1 6
Come, Holy Spirit, Come, Marian Wood Chaplin CCLI 1 2 3 6 1 9 5
*Come, O Holy Spirit (Wind of Change), Fred Kaan
Come, O Spirit, Dwell Among Us, Janie Alford CCLI 2 5 6 82 3 6
Come, O Spirit, with Your Sound, John A. Dalles
Come Touch Our Hearts, Gordon Light
Dance with the Spirit, Jim Strathdee
Eternal Spirit of the Living Christ, Frank von Christierson CCLI 2 7 6 9 080
Filled with the Spirit’s Power, J.R. Peacey CCLI 2 6 1 83
Fire of God, Undying Flame, Albert F. Bayly
For Your Gift of God the Spirit, Margaret Clarkson CCLI 5 5 3 7 6 7 3
*From the Waiting Comes the Sign, Shirley Erena Murray
God of Tempest, God of Whirlwind, Herman Stuempfle Jr.
God, Whose Purpose is to Kindle, D. Elton Trueblood
God’s Spirit, As a Rising Gale, Alan Gaunt
Holy Sacred Spirit, Monica Brown CCLI 2 3 2 5 2 2
Holy Spirit, Keith Getty/Stuart Townend CCLI 4 7 7 9 87 2
*Holy Spirit, Ken Canedo CCLI 4 5 1 03 7 8
Holy Spirit, How I Love You, Kate Simmonds/Stuart Townend CCLI 3 9 2 2 3 2 1
*I Have Called You by Your Name, Dan Damon
Like a Healing Stream, Bruce Harding
*Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song, Carl P. Daw CCLI 2 1 7 4 5 2
Lord Jesus, We Must Know You, Margaret Clarkson
*Loving Spirit, Shirley Erena Murray CCLI 2 1 2 3 4 6
May We, O Holy Spirit, Paul Wigmore CCLI 9 6 07 4 7
New Earth, Heavens New, Harris J. Loewen CCLI 6 05 5 07
O Holy Spirit, Breathe on Me, Norman Warren CCLI 6 4 9 5 4 9
O Holy Spirit, Root of Life, Hildegard of Bingen/Jean Janzen CCLI 2 3 2 5 4 0
On Pentecost They Gathered, Jane Parker Huber CCLI 1 4 5 4 4 5
Open Our Hearts, Jim Strathdee
Pentecost Hymn, Ken Bible
River Running in You and Me (River Run Deep), Ian Macdonald/Gordon Light
Send Your Holy Spirit, Jim Strathdee
She Comes Sailing on the Wind, Gordon Light
*Soaring Spirit, Set Us Free, Carl P. Daw CCLI 1 7 6 1 4 4
Spirit God, Be Our Breath (Embracing Change), Bruce Harding
Spirit of God, Unleashed on Earth, John W. Arthur
Spirit of God, Unseen as the Wind, Margaret Olds
*Spirit of Holiness, Christopher Idle CCLI 4 7 5 1 1 6 8
Spirit, Now Live in Me, Bryan Jeffery Leech CCLI 2 1 2 2 9 9
Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness, James Manley CCLI 1 01 3 9 3
Spirit, Working in Creation, John Richards
The Lone, Wild Bird, Henry McFadyen/Marty Haugen
*There’s a Spirit in the Air, Brian Wren CCLI 1 3 3 1 6 5
*Through Our Fragmentary Prayers, Thomas Troeger
*Travel On, Travel On, Sydney Carter CCLI 5 1 3 3 6 9
*Unbounded Spirit, Breath of God, Brian Wren CCLI 5 6 4 5 6 2 0
We Are God’s People, Bryan Jeffery Leech CCLI 5 7 1 04 1 4
*We are the Church, Richard Avery
Wind Who Makes All Winds, Thomas Troeger
For other worship resources for Pentecost, click on Pentecost in the list of “Labels” at the lower right.
