Category: Music

Advent is such an amazing season – an opportunity to resist the popular culture of Christmas, to instead prepare our hearts for the coming of the Christ, savouring the anticipation of waiting, so that by the time Christmas comes we are so ready! Here are a couple of songs to share with your communities for the Second Sunday of Advent this year:

• Comfort My People (pdf, bulletin graphic and mp3) – from our album, This is the Day, a four-part round based on the opening of the Isaiah text
• Show Us Your Steadfast Love (pdf, bulletin graphic and midi) – a newer refrain for Psalm 85

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New Year’s blessings, everyone (Christian new year, that is!). As we begin another cycle of the church year, here are a few songs to help you celebrate:

• “Restore us, O God” (pdf and bulletin graphic) – a refrain for Psalm 80
• “Keep awake, for you know not when” (pdf) – a lively, gospel-flavoured song based on Matthew 13:32-27
• “Keep awake, keep watch through the night” (pdf and midi) – a gentle refrain, also on the Matthew passage

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I’ve never written a refrain for Psalm 123, until now! Just when I’m positive I’ve completed the full lectionary cycle of psalms, I find another one for which I have no music.

So here it is, for your singing and sharing:

• “Our eyes look to you, O God” (pdf, bulletin graphic and midi)

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All Saints blessings, everyone! Here are a couple of songs to help with the celebrations:

• Forever and Ever (pdf and mp3) – a song based on Revelation 7:12
• Taste and See (pdf) – a setting of the opening six verses of Psalm 34

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“From age to age everlasting, you are God” (Psalm 90:2b). Sing along, in pdf, bulletin graphic and midi formats.⇒ Continue reading