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Jesus, Lord of Life and Glory
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This beautiful hymn by James John Cummins had fallen into disuse until fairly recently. It covers all of life— depth of sin, temptation, ease and joy, sickness, and dying— and always brings us back to the prayer, “By your mercy, oh, deliver us, good Lord.”
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An SATB arrangement of this song is also available from GIA Music, G-8892.
This song is mentioned in Greg’s podcast, “Devotion, Temptation, and Confession.“
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Lord God, Now Let Your Servants Depart in Peace
Price range: $0.00 through $10.00 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/lord_god_now_let_your_servant.mp3"][/audio]The Nunc Dimmittis, Simeon’s song of praise in Luke, is set to a flowing melody for congregation. What better benediction could there be at the end of a worship service than to join Simeon in saying “Let us depart in peace for our eyes have seen the Savior”?
PowerPoint slides for congregational singing are available from Digital Songs & Hymns.
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Lord, We Set Apart This Time
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/lord_we_set_apart_this_time.mp3"][/audio]This hymn makes the perfect bookends for a service: verse one is a call to worship and verse two is a call to service. It is written in four-parts and sounds beautiful sung by a cappella choir.
This hymnis a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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May the Peace of God
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This short, four-part benediction from Philippians 4:7 connects to Psalm 4. It could be used as a coda to my Psalm 4 song “I Rest in You” or sung as a choral benediction at the end of a worship service.
This hymn is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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O Lord, May Your Kingdom Come
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This song is an East/West collaboration between Pakistani Eric Sarwar and me. Eric wrote the music based on the shiv ranjni raga and I wrote the text based on Isaiah 11. It is a beautiful statement of longing for God’s promised Kingdom, which at times we can almost taste and other times seems very far off.
Anthem for SATB choir, percussion, and strings. Purchase price allows you to print as many copies as you need for your ensemble.
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O the Blood of Jesus
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A staple in African American churches, this chorus is especially fitting during communion, confession, or ministry time. This Just Add People! arrangement leaves lots of options, from a simple groove to more complex rhythms and modulations.Piano accompaniment for congregational singing.
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Our Father
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11-Our-Father.mp3"][/audio]The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) becomes an ethereal musical groove in this song. Download the sheet music or listen to the track as it appears on the album Half the Man.
This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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Psalm 20: Blessing
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Kate Bluett’s beautiful rendering of Psalm 20 is simply called “Blessing.” She has recast the language of the Psalm in a way that speaks powerfully into our own context. For example, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses” becomes “Some trust in arms and some in power.” In my estimation, this is exactly the kind of “transplanting” that should take place in modern Psalm songs.
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Psalm 41: Blessed Are the Weak
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Psalm 41 is a prayer for healing–a prayer of hope though both enemies and friends are waiting for you to die. “Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.” This is very similar to Jesus’ words in the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” God has always sided with the poor, the weak, and the outsiders. We should, too, knowing that God will side with us in our moment of weakness.
This hymn is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
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Psalm 72: Hear Our Prayer
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Instead of interpreting the royal blessings of Psalm 72 (“Endow the king with your justice” and “may he defend the afflicted”) as the future deeds of a messianic monarch, Linda Bonney Olin portrays them as acts that all of God’s people can, and should do— right now. Her hymn prays to that effect: “Hear our prayer for the ones you’ve called to rule, to judge, to guard, and to govern. May all our leaders be guided by wisdom, mercy, humility, and defending the oppressed!
This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.