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Come Home
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I was reading the excellent Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine, and as I contemplated the parable of the prodigal son I imagined a song that would bind the son’s story to ours.
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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Come Praise, Be Cradled
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/moody-come_praise_be_cradled.mp3"][/audio]The chorus of this song is about joy welling up in the soul in praise of the Creator. It is paired with a Renaissance-style hymn with a persistent pulse underneath.
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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Come, All You Weary
One of the wonderful things about the Christian faith is that Jesus doesn’t require us to “have it all together” before we come to him. Before we even knew we needed him, he was calling us. This short, meditative song, reminds those of us who are tired and weighed down are especially welcome. Jesus is calling us to himself.
Piano accompaniment with optional vocal descants.
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Come, Sinners, Come, to the Gospel Feast
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In 1747, Charles Wesley wrote a beautiful hymn that turns the parable of the great banquet in Luke 14:15-24 into a sung altar call. This lively folk melody captures the urgency of that call to salvation, giving new life to this historical text.
This song is mentioned in Greg’s podcast, “2021 Musical Year in Review.”
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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Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (BEACH SPRING)
Price range: $5.00 through $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/2020/11/come_thou_long_expected-beachspring.mp3"][/audio]The Advent text “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” is sung to several tunes. Full of longing and melancholy, BEACH SPRING emphasizes the now- and not-yet-ness of Advent. This arrangement could also be used with other texts set to BEACH SPRING, including “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy.”
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Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (HYFRYDOL)
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The Advent text “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” is sung to several tunes. HYFRYDOL, written by 19th-century Welsh composer Rowland Prichard, is a bright tune that prepares the joy of Christmas well and makes for a great closing hymn. This arrangement accompanies congregational singing and could be used with other texts set to HYFRYDOL, including “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” and “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.”Note: The piano and string arrangements can be played together, but they are also complete when played independently.
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Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (STUTTGART)
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stuttgart-come_thou_long_expected-piano.mp3"][/audio]The Advent text “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” is sung to several tunes. STUTTGART, first published in Christian F. Witt’s 1715 Psalmodia Sacra, makes a great opening hymn for an Advent service.Piano accompaniment for congregational singing, with a C instrument descant thrown in for free!
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Comfort, Come Again
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/comfort_come_again.mp3
Amid all the “sleeping baby Jesus” songs of the season, we often forget that Jesus had a bumpy start to his life on earth: born away from home, his family was soon on the run again, this time to a foreign country. Though the “slaughter of the innocents” and the “flight into Egypt” rarely make it into our Christmas imagination, I’ve been thinking that they may serve an important role for our congregations. Let’s face it: lots of us approach Christmas with dread and depression. We’re far from home, missing loved ones, mourning babies that were never born, or are just so sickened by the reality of the world around us that we have a hard time putting our hearts into a Norman Rockwell Christmas.
With this in mind, I penned “Comfort, Come Again.” It’s a prayer that draws on the themes of Matthew 2 and recasts them in a way that they could be prayed and sung for either the characters of the biblical narrative or those of us today who are going through similar griefs and trials.
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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Comfortable Words
$0.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageIf you are involved in church music at all, you know there’s a divide among musicians who themselves come from very different places: the “traditional” musicians are classically trained note readers who rarely improvise, and the “contemporary” musicians are more comfortable working from recordings and making music off the page. Part of my mission is to be a bridge between these two worlds. Whenever I find a song from the contemporary world that I think could work in a traditional setting, I make a point of arranging it for non-improvising musicians. This four-part arrangement of Andy Piercy’s “Comfortable Words” is exactly the kind of crossover song I would like to see travel more widely.
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Confession Sequence with “Purify My Heart”
This confession sequence invites the congregation to pray by singing “Purify My Heart” by Jeff Nelson. Alternating singing and speaking (over light instrumentation) allows people to engage their hearts as they enter into confession and receive the good news of forgiveness.
This resource is mentioned in Greg’s podcast, “Devotion, Temptation, and Confession.“