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Psalm 98: Sing to the Lord a New Song
$0.00 – $5.00 Select options[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sing_to_the_lord.mp3"][/audio]It seems like everyone has their own version of Psalm 98, but each generation needs a “new song” so I make no apologies for adding my voice to the fray! This song was chosen to be sung at COLAM 1999 (Conference on Liturgy and Music) at Dordt College as part of the Composition Competition.
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Seven Last Words: 1. Forgive Us
$0.00 Add to cart[embed]https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/forgive_us.mp3[/embed]This is the first in a series of songs on the seven last words of Christ. It is based on Luke 23:34: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” With each of these songs, my goal is not to restate the words of Jesus but to let worshipers reflect on them. For this passage, I wanted to invite people to take to the posture of the repentant thief on the cross, offering a heartfelt confession.
For all seven songs, visit the Seven Last Words page.
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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Seven Last Words: 2. By Your Side
$0.00 Add to cart[embed]http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/by_your_side.mp3[/embed]“By Your Side” is song #2 in my Seven Last Words series. This one is based on Luke 23:43 “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” We understand what these words mean when Jesus speaks them to a criminal dying next to him on a cross, but what do they mean for us today? In this song, we respond to Christ’s words with dedication: “Yes, Lord, we want to be with you in life and death, in paradise or cross.”
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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Seven Last Words: 3. Love One Another
$0.00 Add to cart[embed]http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/love_one_another.mp3[/embed]The Gospel of John tells the story this way: “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. (John 19:25-27)
It is touching that Jesus was taking care of his mother even while he was dying, but it is not surprising; John’s Gospel is all about love, from the famous “for God so loved the world” to the new commandment of the last supper, “love one another.” So a song about these last words of Christ should make us consider who our family is and how we can love them best.
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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Seven Last Words: 4. Set Us Free
$0.00 Add to cart[embed]http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/set_us_free.mp3[/embed]This fourth song of the “Seven Last Words” project has Jesus speaking perhaps the most desolate words of the Bible: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34) These words uttered from the cross are actually a direct quote from Psalm 22, where we read of a Psalmist surrounded by enemies but ultimately saved from the grasp of death.
If Jesus could trust God even on the cross, certainly we can cry out for deliverance even in the middle of our pain, doubt, and despair.
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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Seven Last Words: 5. May We Thirst in You
$0.00 Add to cart[embed]http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/may_we_thirst_in_you.mp3[/embed]From the cross, the One who described himself as Living Water asks for a drink. “I thirst.” This simple sentence says so much: Christ was not spared from his thirst and we shouldn’t expect to be, either. Instead, our journey will be one of both thirsting and quenching, peace and restlessness, fulfillment and yearning.
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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Seven Last Words: 6. I Trust My Soul to You
$0.00 Add to carthttp://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/i_trust_my_soul_to_you.mp3
“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” In the drama of the crucifixion, these words meant, “I’m ready to die.” But there is another layer of meaning, for Jesus and for us: Jesus committed himself–trusted his whole being–to God’s care. That should be our posture, too, both in our living and our dying.
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Seven Last Words: 7. It Is Finished!
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“It is finished” were the final words Christ uttered as he died. It is important to note that the word he used is not one that means “That’s it–I’m done” but a word of completion. His work complete, he gave himself over to death.
The crux of Christianity (pun intended) is Christ’s work on the cross. Let’s rest entirely on Christ for our salvation and life.
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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The Kingdom of Heaven
$0.00 – $5.00 Select options[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/the_kingdom_of_heaven.mp3"][/audio]“The Sermon on the Mount” contains some of Jesus’ most beloved words, but there are surprisingly few songs that take up these themes. As some settings of “The Beatitudes” have fallen into disuse it seemed the time was ripe for a new one. The verses are nearly verbatim scripture and the chorus is exceedingly easy to learn.
PowerPoint slides for congregational singing are available from Digital Songs & Hymns.
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The Meadow Sings
$0.00 Add to cart[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/moody-the_meadow_sings.mp3"][/audio]“The Meadow Sings” knits together nature, music, and the Creator so beautifully it makes all three seem part of the same chorus.
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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The Peaceable Kingdom
$0.00 Add to cart[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/the_peacable_kingdom.mp3"][/audio]“The Peaceable Kingdom,” like the Edward Hicks painting from which I borrowed the song’s title, is a rendering of the famous Isaiah 11:1-9 passage that describes predator and prey playing together, led by a little child. At Christmas, we understand this Child to be Christ, the little child who came into the world to usher in an age of peace.
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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The Song of Moses and the Lamb
$0.00 – $5.00 Select options[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/moses_and_the_lamb.mp3"][/audio]While planning a service based on the story of Moses’s birth and adoption by Pharaoh’s daughter, I came across a once-popular hymn by William Hammond called “Awake and Sing the Song.” (The original publication has no less than 14 verses!) Naturally, I wrote a new tune for it. I knew the text called for a tune as rough as a sea chanty, as epic as a murder ballad, and as joyously raucous as a shape-note hymn. What I came up with is a pentatonic melody that is equal parts “What Wondrous Love” and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.” You can hear the piano accompaniment in the video below:
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