Category Archives: Congregational Songs

Another Foothold

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. I recently posted a quick demo of a new tune I wrote for Debra Rienstra’s sweet setting of Psalm 25. Yesterday we introduced the song to the congregation. It … Continue reading →

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O Breath of Life (by rote at COS)

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Recently I recorded a pop punk retune of a hymn text by Bessie Porter Head. Naturally, the idea was met with some skepticism. Don’t let the style throw … Continue reading →

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Foothold (Psalm 25)

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song is available here. 10 years ago, my friend Debra Rienstra wrote a hymn text based on Psalm 25, called “Foothold.” Not only that, she won the Fuller Seminary School of Psychology Fortieth Anniversary hymn … Continue reading →

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Psalm 104, with Doug Gay

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Every few months my friend Doug Gay emails new hymn texts he’s written, many of them Psalm settings. The latest was a setting of Psalm 104. He wrote the text … 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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In a Still, Small Voice (Germany)

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Just for fun, here’s a cellphone recording of my friend Cathrin Campo singing “In a Still, Small Voice” at a baptism service in Emden, Germany. If you would like to sing this song in your country, you can download the music … Continue reading →

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O Breath of Life

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. What do I like about Bessie Porter Head? What’s not to like? I say. First, her name is Bessie, which is cool in an old-fashioned way, and also rhymes … Continue reading →

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Why Should the Children of a King

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. This is how it works for me: It’s afternoon and the pastor stops by my office to let me know he’s going to skip out on the evening … 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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