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STUFEN
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/stufen.mp3"][/audio]Originally written for Christopher Webber’s 1 John 1:1-7 hymn, “This We Proclaim About the Word of Life,” this tune is built on a sweeping melodic line and a momentary shift into a different key. In non-technical terms, it’s really pretty!
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.
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SYCOPHANT
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/sycophant.mp3
Mary Louise Bringle’s “When Memory Fades” is a beautiful treatment of aging, losing memory and strength. It hits close to home, as my own dad died of Alzheimers. I understand why most people sing this to the well-known FINLANDIA, but I just don’t think that tune fits this poignant text well. And so I offer my own tune to accompany “When Memory Fades” (or a hymn that is still waiting to be written).
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.
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Take My Life and Let It Be
Price range: $0.00 through $25.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/gsm-take_my_life-piano_strings.mp3"][/audio]The beloved hymn of dedication, “Take My Life and Let It Be,” puts on its Sunday best, with a piano and string arrangement that gives it energy and class, but never detracts from the melody and message. It was commissioned by Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, under the direction of Wendell Kimbrough.
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Teach Us Your Peace
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Shortly after the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, David Bjorlin sent an email with a new hymn text, “Teach Us Your Peace.” It addressed the fatigue I was feeling from the seemingly endless cycle of death and denial. I hope David’s text and my newly composed tune will be a life-giving balm amidst a culture so enamored with weapons and so willing to offer our children to the god of untethered freedom.
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Tears and Joy (album bundle)
Price range: $0.00 through $10.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageDownload music for the full album at once, or go to individual Psalms below:
Praise the Lord (Psalm 135)
O Savior Come! (Psalm 132)
Those Who Trust in the Lord Shall Abide (Psalm 131)
The Gracious Love of God Will Never End (Psalm 136)
Close to Your Heart (Psalm 131)
Deliver Me (Psalm 120)
My God, My Guide, My Guard (Psalm 121)
Let Us Go! (Psalm 122)
Have Mercy (Psalm 123)
If God Had Not Been on Our Side (Psalm 124)
Our Help (Psalm 124)
Everlasting Peace (Psalm 125)
Tears and Joy (Psalm 126)
Wait for the Work of the Lord (Psalm 127)
Bless Us, O Lord (Psalm 128)
We Won’t Stay Down Forever (Psalm 129)
From Down in the Depths (Psalm 130)
Wait for the Lord (Psalm 131)
Dwell in Us (Psalm 132)
How Good and Beautiful (Psalm 133)
Bless the Lord! (Psalm 134) -
Ten Commandments responsive reading
This resource is a responsive reading of the 10 Commandments, pairing the Old Testament law with Jesus’ summary of the greatest Commandment. In the Reformed tradition, the 10 Commandments are often included in worship as a response to the assurance of pardon. This allows these commands to function as laws of life rather than laws of death. They provide a way for us to live into the grace that God has given us.
Download includes a pdf file with the responsive reading on its own, and a confession/assurance sequence based on Psalm 145.
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Thank You, Lord
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Like many Black Gospel songs, the beauty of this is that it focuses on one thing (thanksgiving) while allowing for lots of flexibility. The lead singer can improvise new verses in the moment (“Been so good,” “Saved my soul,” etc); the Just Add People! piano arrangement is equally flexible, with an optional modulation and chord symbols for guitar, bass, and other instruments.Piano accompaniment for congregational singing.
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The Beauty of Your Holiness
Price range: $0.00 through $5.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThis song was written to celebrate the completion of pastor Lou Mitchell’s dissertation, The Experience of Beauty in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards. The song draws on images Edwards uses in writings such as Religious Affections and The Excellency of Christ and from 2 Chronicles 20:21: “After he (Jehoshaphat) had advised the people, he appointed people to sing to the Lord and praise him for the beauty of his holiness.”
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The First Nowell
$20.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/scheer-the_first_nowell.mp3"][/audio]“The First Nowell” is the quintessential Christmas carol and a classic folk tune, but too many arrangements fetter the flowing melody with four-part harmony. My approach is simple: let the melody sing itself and support it with an accompaniment that keeps things moving forward. After a brief string intro, it starts small–just guitar and solo voice–and then builds momentum over the song’s 6 verses.
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The God of Abraham Praise (LEONI) – chamber/full orchestra
Price range: $25.00 through $35.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/calvin_orch-the_god_of_abraham.mp3"][/audio]This arrangement was first written for chamber orchestra for a Lessons & Carols service, then commissioned for full orchestra by the Calvin College Orchestra and their director, Robert Nordling. The recording above is from the Calvin Orchestra’s premiere of the full orchestra version on March 5, 2011.