Category Archives: Hymn tunes

Psalm 69: Have Pity, My God (with David J. Diephouse)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. I’ve collaborated with David Diephouse before (80, 107, 148) and am glad to be co-writing a new Psalm setting with him. This one, Psalm 69, comes with an origin … Continue reading →

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Psalm 8: How Often in the Deep of Night (with Linda Bonney Olin)

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Like many Februarys, this month I will be taking part in FAWM: February Album Writing Month. This year I will be meeting the challenge of writing 14 songs in … Continue reading →

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God of Knowledge, All-Consuming (with Hunter Lynch)

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Greg Scheer

God’s omniscience. How do we speak about it without using hifalutin words like “omniscience”? How do we sing about it? And does this esoteric theological category have any bearing on our life and faith? Hunter Lynch addresses these questions in … Continue reading →

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You Walk Along Our Shorelines

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Greg Scheer

Sylvia Dunstan wrote the beautiful hymn “You Walk Along Our Shorelines” in response to Mark 1:14-20, in which Jesus calls the first disciples. It is often paired with the tune AURELIA (“The Church’s One Foundation”), but I felt it needed … Continue reading →

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Psalm 53: Fools Deny Their God within Them (Carlill)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Greg Scheer

I returned to Adam Carlill’s excellent Psalms for the Common Era to get his take on the difficult Psalm 53. This Psalm (and its nearly identical twin, Psalm 14) is full of rancor, claiming that foolish humans are godless, corrupt, … Continue reading →

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By Blessed Wounds (T.L. Moody)

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Greg Scheer

Update 2/4/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Tammy Moody wrote a lovely text about trusting God to be a good father rather than a vengeful or cruel one. She and I have discussed the fact … Continue reading →

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Ask the Complicated Questions (David Bjorlin)

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Greg Scheer

It seems that Dave and I grew up in similar church contexts, where easy answers were dished out with as much relish as jello salad at a Sunday potluck. Unfortunately, those easy answers overlooked the subtleties of real life, used … Continue reading →

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Build a Longer Table (David Bjorlin)

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Greg Scheer

Update 3/4/22: You can now download the sheet music for this song at https://gregscheer.com/product/build-a-longer-table/ I met Dave Bjorlin at a Hymn Society conference in 2018 in a late-night chat among HS night owls. “Good guy,” I thought. What I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Hosanna in the Highest! (UNIQUE CROWN)

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Greg Scheer

Update 3/16/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Sometimes you just have to go with an idea. Here’s what that looked like for me today: 11:15am The church organist and I had a brief conversation about … Continue reading →

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CHARMING FOURTH

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/14/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. I don’t enter hymn contests as obsessively as I used to, but when I do, I usually lose. My entry into the Eastman School of Music’s hymn tune … Continue reading →

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