Category Archives: Arrangement

Mary’s Song/Our King of Peace (Kimbrough)

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. When Cardiphonia released its new Songs for the Incarnation, I eagerly listened through the 23 song collection multiple times. (If you haven’t heard it yet, do yourself a favor and make … Continue reading →

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O Lord May Your Kingdom Come (Isaiah 11)

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Sunday evening was Church of the Servant’s Lessons & Carols service. In it we sang a new song based on Isaiah 11: the peaceable Kingdom. The song was an … Continue reading →

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Somos uno en Cristo / We Are One in Christ Jesus

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song is available here. There’s a wonderful little song called “Somos uno en Cristo” that is making its way into a number of recent hymnals. Unfortunately, the arrangement that invariably appears with the song … Continue reading →

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God Himself Is with Us, flute descant

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this descant is now available at gregscheer.com. My golden rule of worship planning is “people first.” That is, instead of planning a bunch of great songs and then squishing some musicians into your plan, you should plan … Continue reading →

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Psalm 47: Clap Your Hands, for cantor, choir, flute, and percussion

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Greg Scheer

When I was working on Global Songs for Worship, I found a Yoruban song in the collection Ẹ Kọrin S’Oluwa, edited by Godwin Sadoh. It was published as “Psalm 47: Clap Your Hands” in both Global Songs for Worship and Psalms … Continue reading →

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In Your Pentecostal Splendor

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Greg Scheer

I was recently commissioned to arrange “In Your Pentecostal Splendor” for the Calvin College Lessons & Carols service. This hymn might be new to you, but at my church we sing it every week during one of our Pentecost season … Continue reading →

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Three for Emily Brink: Unified

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Greg Scheer

#2 in the Emily Brink hit parade is a collaboration with Ron Rienstra. Ron had written a short song in a bouncy, country style for an event years ago and wondered if I’d revisit it with him. I applied some gospel … Continue reading →

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Let the Spirit of the Lord Come Down (Nigeria)

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Listen. Look. Read: A few days ago, a friend of mine, Wendell Kimbrough, asked about a Nigerian song he had heard. I checked it out and was immediately smitten. It has everything you’d want in an African praise chorus: it’s … Continue reading →

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Kimbrough’s Psalm 31: In You, Lord, I Refuge Take

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update 3/16/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Wendell Kimbrough is one of my favorite new congregational songwriters. I figured I’d hitch my wagon to this rising star early on his career so that when he … Continue reading →

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Prepare the Way, O Zion – two ways

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Greg Scheer

Last year I was re-introduced to the Advent hymn “Prepare the Way, O Zion” (BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) through the great recording Proclaim the Bridegroom Near by Chicago Metro Presbytery Music. (An unwieldy name, but one of my new favorite Christmas … Continue reading →

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