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O God, Our Help, We Bless Your Name
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Based on a hymn text by Philip Doddridge, this tune sounds like it comes from the pages of Southern Harmony while the lyrics remind us that the seemingly insurmountable obstacles we see ahead of us will become occasions for praising God in the future.
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.
O One with God the Father
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William Walsham How is best known as the author of “For All the Saints,” but he wrote almost a hundred other hymns, including this one: “O One with God the Father.” It is a powerful Epiphany text that begins with the theme of Colossians 1:15, “The Son is the image of the invisible God.” It continues by focusing on the light of Christ, praying that Christ’s light would dispel the darkness of our lives. This wonderful old text now has a fresh coat of (musical) paint!
O One with God the Father
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William Walsham How is best known as the author of “For All the Saints,” but he wrote almost a hundred other hymns, including “O One with God the Father.” It is a powerful Epiphany text that begins with the theme of Colossians 1:15, “The Son is the image of the invisible God.” Surprisingly few hymns address the oneness of the Father and Son, so it is also appropriate when focusing on the theme “We believe in Jesus Christ his only Son” from the Apostles’ Creed.

PowerPoint slides for congregational singing are available from Digital Songs and Hymns.
One Generation Will Call to the Next
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Looking for a song to celebrate and encourage intergenerational worship? This setting of Psalm 145:1-7 was one of the winning songs of the CRC sesquicentennial hymn contest. Since then it has been included in three hymnals, recorded on a CD, sung at weddings, and used as a theme song for church dedications and education programs. One young person said this: I love this song. It has given me greater understanding of what a healthy church and Godly community looks like and has inspired me to be open to learning from the “last” generation.
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A leadsheet is available here. For piano accompaniment or a festive choral anthem, visit GIA: https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/one-generation-will-call-to-the-next-print-g9804. The choral anthem is extremely flexible, with options for solo, children’s choir, worship band, and full orchestra. (See instrumentation chart below).

PowerPoint slides for congregational singing are available from Digital Songs & Hymns.
Our Father
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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.
Pilgrim Psalms: Songs of Ascents
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Pilgrim Psalms is my latest musical journey, writing songs for all fifteen Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134). You can listen to a podcast about the project above or hear all the songs uninterrupted below.
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Download music for all the Pilgrim Psalms at once, or go to an individual psalm below.

Psalm 120: Deliver Me
Psalm 121: My God, My Guide, My Guard
Psalm 122: Let Us Go!
Psalm 123: Have Mercy
Psalm 124: Our Help
Psalm 125: Everlasting Peace
Psalm 126: Tears and Joy
Psalm 127: Wait for the Work of the Lord
Psalm 128: Bless Us, O Lord
Psalm 129: We Won’t Stay Down Forever
Psalm 130: From Down in the Depths
Psalm 131: Wait for the Lord
Psalm 132: Dwell in Us
Psalm 133: How Good and Beautiful
Psalm 134: Bless the Lord!
Prairie Prelude
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What does it sound like when the stones cry out (Luke 19:40), the mountains and hills burst into song, the trees of the field clap their hands (Isaiah 55:12), and creation groans (Romans 8:22)? It seems that we humans are not the only ones to praise their Creator and lament their fallen state while awaiting the coming Kingdom. “Prairie Prelude” paints a picture of the creation lifting up its voice so exuberantly that it invites us to join its song of praise.

This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
Psalm 1: Blessed Are They
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Psalm 1 is the perfect way to begin the Psalms: It is exquisitely structured poetry that makes plain the path of the faithful versus the way of the foolish–a major theme of the Psalmists. This is all well and good for those who are already immersed in the Psalms, but for beginners, ending a poem with “the way of the wicked leads to destruction” is a hard sell. When I write Psalm songs, I try to transplant the original Psalm in a way that makes sense to modern ears. “Blessed Are They” is a Gospel-inflected tune that provides the proverbial “spoonful of sugar” that lets the Psalm’s message come through.
Psalm 100: Shout for Joy to the Lord All the Earth
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This setting of Psalm 100 evokes the celebration of all creation with colorful chords and and a flowing melody.

Sheet music for voice and piano.
Psalm 102: My Heart Is Sick
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Psalm 102 vacillates between utter despair (“I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears”) and hope in God’s unchanging love and ability to save. This song mirrors these emotions with biting dissonance and brief moments of repose. The recording above is me playing the cello quartet arrangement on my bass. Below is a demo of the more traditional piano accompaniment.

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Psalm 103: Bless the Lord, O My Soul!
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Commissioned to be sung at the graduation ceremony of Western Theological Seminary, this song captures the exuberance and gratitude of Psalm 103 in an upbeat gospel style. This Psalm is traditionally sung as a thanksgiving song at the conclusion of communion–indeed, Western still uses it regularly in their chapel’s communion–but it also works well as a general song of praise of choral offertory.
Above is an MP3 of Finale playing back the choral score. Starting at 17:23 in the video below is the anthem being sung as part of Calvin University’s chapel.