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Advent-to-Christmas Story
$0.00 or moreAdvent-to-Christmas StoryAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Most effective as a solo. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: In the darkest time of year, a time of hope, and a time of fear, the prophet says that God is coming to you. And so we turn from greed and hate, still learning to pray and watch and wait, and sing our fragile, hopeful hallelujah. Hallelujah... Young Mary said her “Yes” to him, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and laid him in a manger, that'll do you. The light of love shone in the night. The shepherds came to see the sight, and angels sang a glorious Hallelujah. Hallelujah... Some wise men traveled from afar, just following such a tiny star, as if its simple light could shine right though you. They gave their treasures to the king, who makes you want to serve and sing, who tells you you can be his Hallelujah. Hallelujah... -
Anna and Simeon’s Song
$3.00 or moreAnna and Simeon’s SongAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Luke 2.25-38. For congregation or solo (or duet). [Hear it in the Product Description below.]
Lyrics: Today I held in my trembling hands such a child so pure: a gift of grace, God’s human face, love so tenderly given. Wonder! Wonder! How God’s promise is sure! Fears cease in hope and peace: earth has now become heaven. Today I saw with my wondering eyes such a child divine! My heart sang out for all about shone the light of the Near One. Wonder! Wonder! That this joy could be mine. Jesus has come to us, the Beloved, the Dear one. Today you’ll meet in a simple way such a Presence, a Friend: the Gentle One refuses none with God’s tender salvation. Wonder! Wonder! Miracle without end! Praise, pray and everyday bow in deep adoration. -
Drawing Me
$3.00 or moreDrawing MeAdd to cartOriginal song. Also especially suitable for a solo (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Holy One, Mystery, how will you keep drawing me nearer to the heart within the heart? Nearer still, falling in, closer to the heart within, draw me God. I fall into your love. Lover, you are calling, you are drawing, I am falling into you in love. Deep in me there's a voice, there's a hunger, there's a choice, seeking something vital that is you. By your grace drawing me, may I fall eternally nearer to my center deep in you. Lover, you are calling, you are drawing, I am falling into you in love. -
Emmanuel
$3.00 or moreEmmanuelAdd to cartOriginal song. Suitable for either solo or congregational singing. (Listen to an excerpt in the Product Description.) Lyrics: How dark is the night and how cold is the home we have made in our pain and our sin! How could it be that a savior would come to be with us? Please enter in! Welcome, Emmanuel! Welcome in! Welcome, Emmanuel! Welcome in! Are we alone in our failure and terror, struggling, confused in the night? We cannot save ourselves, weary from error, Who will bring us the light? Welcome... Closing our doors to the wind of Creation, alone, we are living in fear. Emmanuel comes now, our healing salvation, to dwell with us, bringing love here. Welcome... Wait, though, dear Jesus, this life will be trying: you'll die in sorrow and scorn. “Yes, but I'll bless all your living and dying. See, in the manger I'm born.” Welcome... -
Oh, Jesus
$3.00 or moreOh, JesusAdd to cartOriginal song. Solo in the style of a Black Spiritual (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Oh, Jesus, what have you done? Carried my burdens, every one, All of my sorrow, all of my sin, Like a mother gathering her children in. Now I’m left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your tender, tender love. Oh, Jesus, what have I done? Crucified my precious one. I didn't want to bear the pain or loss, So I left you alone to carry the cross. Now I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your sufferin', sufferin', love. Oh, Jesus, what will you do? Forgive me like you always do. With not a word of wrath or blame, You died with love gently sayin' my name. Now I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your precious, precious love. Oh, Jesus, what will I do? Give me the courage to follow you, To give my love if I live or die, And never again to crucify. For I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your dyin', dyin' love -
Spark of Light
$0.00 or moreSpark of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Most effective as a solo, with congregation joining on the final chorus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: In the cold and dark of night a Spirit gives a spark of light and breathes the breath of life that flows right through ya. The Spirit births and blesses you, and holds you and caresses you, and looks at you and cries out, “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah, hallelujah... With light that glimmers in your eyes your heart sings out to harmonize with everyone —they're all related to ya. The love in us will always pull our hearts together, beautiful, and make us all a single “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah... So even in the dark of night the Spirit gives us hopeful sight. You don't think that the end is coming, do ya? We'll bear the light and sing the song and side by side we'll work along until the whole world sings God's “Hallelujah.” Hallelujah... -
The Heart of Heaven
$3.00 or moreThe Heart of HeavenAdd to cartOriginal song. A song of encouragement. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: There’s a heart in heaven that knows you, and speaks your name in love from heaven’s throne, that has laughed and labored here beside you, and says, “I know your journey as my own.” There are eyes in heaven that adore you, and weep with joy at the beauty of your soul, for they see the courage of your living, and share your deepest yearnings to be whole. There’s a tear in heaven that remembers, there’s a deep, weary sigh that understands; there are gentle, wounded hands that know the struggle to do the work of God with human hands. There’s a voice from heaven within you, a spring of life-giving water flowing free. Let it flow, let grace and peace shine in you with heaven’s loveliness for all to see. Oh, the heart of heaven is within you, the universe embraces you in love, for the humble One who walks beside you is the One who rules the sun and stars above. -
Winter Bird
$3.00 or moreWinter BirdAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
For solo or congregational singing, accompanied by piano or bell choir.
Hear an audio clip in the Product Description below. Lyrics: One winter night the woods were bare and cold as cold could be. A bird, while singing, wove a nest up in a barren tree. “Dear bird, “I said, “you have no young, and soon the snow will fall. Why do you build this winter nest, so fragile and so small?” “There is a gentle child,” she said, “whose coming is foretold: he comes from God to warm our wintry hearts when they're cold. My nest is small but it is all I can provide a guest. If he should come this way I pray he finds a little rest.” Now the woods are still, the bird is gone, the nest has filled with snow. But still the dear bird warms my heart, as she did long ago. O holy child, I long for such a loving guest as thee. Like her, I offer you my heart to make your nest in me.