Category Archives: Arrangement

Brooks’ Sanctus

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Greg Scheer

I’m just coming down from the mountaintop known as the annual Calvin Worship Symposium. Beyond the 4 sessions and 2 services I helped lead, I contributed an arrangement to the service led by Bruce Benedict and the Hope College worship … Continue reading →

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Pentecostal Splendor at Calvin College’s 2014 Lessons and Carols

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Greg Scheer

While tracking down recordings of my arrangements from this year’s Calvin College Lessons and Carols service, I was also able to locate a recording of “Pentecostal Splendor” from the service in 2014. The vivid imagery of the text by John E. … Continue reading →

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What Adam’s Disobedience Cost

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Greg Scheer

The second piece I was asked to arrange for Calvin College’s 2016 Lessons and Carols service was “What Adam’s Disobedience Cost.” This hymn text by Fred Pratt Green (V5 Carol Bechtel) is not all that well known, but it fills … Continue reading →

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Jacob’s Ladder Gloria

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Greg Scheer

This Christmas I had the honor of contributing to Calvin College’s Lessons and Carols service. They commissioned two pieces. The first was a musical collage paired with the scripture about Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven. I was asked … Continue reading →

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We Three Kings in Canada

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Greg Scheer

I’ve been making my music available online for two decades; in fact, I was one of the first church music publishers online. And Richard Janzen was there from the beginning. Richard directs the choral program at Rosthern Junior College in … Continue reading →

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Oče naš /God, Our Father in Heaven (Croatian Lord’s Prayer)

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 10/28/21: Sheet music for this song can now be purchased at gregscheer.com. For a long time now, people* have been clamoring for the Scheer men to form a band. Indeed, we are the ultimate boy band: tall and lanky … Continue reading →

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Psalm 121: Lift Your Eyes Up to the Mountains!

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. As you know, my dear listeners, I scour the globe for songs that might find a home in your congregation. Sometimes they come from the globe that is my head. … Continue reading →

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2016 Calvin Worship Symposium, final service

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Only 5 months after the fact, here’s a video from the concluding worship service at the 2016 Calvin Worship Symposium. I led the service with my Church of the Servant home team, which made it really special. http://worship.calvin.edu/resources/resource-library/new-heavens-and-new-earth/ New Heavens and … Continue reading →

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GIA Choral Subscription Service

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Abana Kwake Yesu 5,000 people receive GIA’s Choral Subscription Service, and each one will get the chance to review my two new anthems published by GIA, Abana, and Kwake Yesu. Pretty cool. Even cooler? The sample octavos are accompanied by recordings of each piece. … Continue reading →

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Kimbrough: Oh Rejoice in All Your Works, strings

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Wendell Kimbrough won the Church of the Servant New Psalm Contest a few years ago with his setting of Psalm 104, “Oh Rejoice in All Your Works.” Since … Continue reading →

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