Category Archives: Congregational Songs

It Is Finished!

Update: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. The 7th and final song of The Seven Last Words series is “It is finished.” (John 19:30). These were the final words Christ uttered as he died. It is important … Continue reading

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I Trust My Soul to You

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. This is #6 of The Seven Last Words, in which Jesus says, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” (Luke 23:46) In the drama of the crucifixion, these … Continue reading

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May We Thirst in You

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. “I thirst” is the 5th word from the cross and the 5th song in my series of songs on The Seven Last Words. As I contemplated this short sentence, … Continue reading

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Set Us Free

Update 10/2/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. This fourth song of the “Seven Last Words” project has Jesus speaking some of the most desolate words of the Bible: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken … Continue reading

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Love One Another

Update 10/6/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. #3 in the “Seven Last Words of Christ” series. The Gospel of John tells the story this way: “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, … Continue reading

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By Your Side

Update 10/6/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. “By Your Side” is song #2 in my Seven Last Words of Christ series. This one is based on Luke 23:43 “Truly, I say to you, today you will … Continue reading

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Psalm 118: The Lord’s Become Our Salvation

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. My friend Wendell Kimbrough and I co-wrote a song for the Calvin Worship Symposium. Go to 40:03 in this video to hear it.

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Forgive Us

Update 10/6/20: Sheet music for this song can be downloaded here. This Lent, Pastor Nate is preaching a series on the seven last words of Christ. I’ve committed to writing a short song to follow each of the seven sermons. … Continue reading

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Come Home

I’m 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 tried to imagine what kind of song might be an appropriate … Continue reading

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All Who Have Ears

There is a recurring refrain in the book of Revelation: “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” As Fuller Avenue Church worked through the letters to the churches of Revelation this fall I kept … Continue reading

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