Ordinary Time // Week 10 // July 28 - Aug. 3
ROOTED AND GROUNDED
Rooted and grounded in love
I pray you may be
Rooted and grounded in love
Welcome to the world, little sprout!
You broke through the ground with a shout
And it’s so good to have you out and about
Here in the sunshine
Wasn’t long ago you were a seed
Now you’re growing like a weed
And I’m praying that your roots run deep
And you’ll bear good fruit in time
Rooted and grounded in love
I pray you may be
Rooted and grounded in love
Now the sun gonna shine on you
Rain gon’ fall on you, too
And I just want you to know, you need both to grow
And God’s gonna see you through
Gonna give you those good roots
Roots down deep, hold you, ground you, and always keep you
Close, planted you and watches your sleeping
So dive into the good soil, then start reaching up
Reaching out, spread your limbs, grow strong and stout
Good roots withstand the winds and drought
And bear fruit, and this is what it’s all about
Bearing good fruit to share
With the beasts of the forest and the birds of the air
You’re a part of the forest and we need you where you are
And what you bear is what you have to share
So I pray you’ll be
Rooted and grounded in love
I pray you may be
Rooted and grounded in love
I pray you may have the
power to comprehend,
The breadth, length, height, depth
to know the love of Christ that
surpasses all knowledge,
so that you may be filled
with the fullness of God.
Rooted and grounded in love
I pray you may be
Rooted and grounded in love
Rooted and grounded in love
Rooted and grounded in love
Rooted and grounded in love
Lyrics: Jessaymn Bryant and Greg Yoder, 2024
Music: Jessamyn Bryant and Greg Yoder, 2024
Vocals: Jessamyn Bryant
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 9 // July 21-27
JESUS, ROOT US IN YOUR LOVE
Jesus, lead us into peace
Lead us into peace
Lead us into peace
Jesus, root us in your love
We want to see your kingdom come
Help us to follow you
Jesus, teach us to speak peace
and move our hearts and feet,
Give us words to speak
Jesus, you make all things new
Come, fix our eyes on you
And give us your work to do
Jesus, lead us into peace
Lead us into peace
Lead us into peace
Lyrics and music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2024
Vocals: Katie Greenmun, Ebony Nicole, Megan Bishop
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 8 // July 14-20
THE MEASURE YOU GIVE
“Judge not, and you will not be judged;
condemn not, and you will not be condemned;
forgive, and you will be forgiven;
give, and it will be given to you;
good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over,
will be put into your lap.
For the measure you give
will be the measure you get back.”
Lyrics: direct quotation of Luke 6:37-38 (RSV)
Music: Micah Spicher Schonberg, 2024
Vocals: Micah Spicher Schonberg, Ebony Nicole
© Micah Spicher Schonberg, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 7 // July 7-13
SOMETIMES I RUN
Sometimes I run
Sometimes I run as fast I can
Until I can’t stand anymore
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I fall down to my knees
And I can’t see you anymore
There’s no place that I can go
Where your steadfast love and hope
Can’t find me
And my home is where you are
It’s been written in the stars
Remind me
Help me sing, O LORD, help me sing
Help me pray when I am overwhelmed
There’s no place that I can go
Where your steadfast love and hope
Can’t find me
And my home is where you are
It’s been written in the stars
Remind me
Help me sing, O LORD, help me sing
Help me pray when I am overwhelmed
Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman, Nichole Barrows, and Greg Yoder, 2024
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, Jonathan Crissman, and Nichole Barrows, 2024
Vocals: Nichole Barrows, Mitchell Yoder
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 6 // June 30 - July 6
GREAT IS YOUR FAITHFULNESS
Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness in the morning
Your love never ceases, great is your faithfulness
Behind the curtain of night, your mercy’s waiting, your mercy’s waiting
With the sun on the rise, your love’s creating, your love’s creating
Like the rain of the spring, your mercy’s falling, your mercy’s falling
When the mockingbirds sing, your love is calling, your love is calling
Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness in the morning
Your love never ceases, great is your faithfulness
Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness in the morning
Your love never ceases, great is your faithfulness
3:22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
3:23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness in the morning
Your love never ceases, great is your faithfulness
Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness in the morning
Your love never ceases, great is your faithfulness
Lyrics: William Leaton and Greg Yoder, 2024, with direct quotation of Lamentations 3:22-23 (NRSV)
Music: William Leaton, Seth Crissman, and Greg Yoder, 2024
Vocals: Rachel Mast, Lauren Yoder, Kristina Yoder
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 5 // June 23-29
BRING YOUR PEACE
Bring your peace, when I am lost
When I’m lost, Lord, bring your peace
Bring your peace, when I’m alone
When I’m alone, Lord, bring your peace
And make us instruments to sing your peace
And give us love for each other
Into a world that longs to hear
Send us, Lord, to bring your peace
Bring your peace when we’re afraid
When we’re afraid, Lord, bring your peace
Bring your peace into the storm
Into the storm, Lord, bring your peace
And make us instruments
To sing your peace
And give us love for each other
Into a world that longs to hear
Send us, Lord, to bring your peace
Lyrics and music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2019
Vocals: Janelle Donaldson, Chelsea Mast, Kris Shank Zehr, Maria Clymer Kurtz, Greta Bucher, Selah Shenk, Joanna Showalter, Rebecca Gish
© The Walking Roots Band, 2019
Ordinary Time // Week 4 // June 16-22
SEEDS
These seeds you have sown,
In our hearts and in our bones,
Cover them with your love.
Use our hands, use our feet,
To show your love and your peace,
And cover us,
Cover us,
Cover us with your love.
Lyrics and music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2017
Vocals: Jackson Maust, Rachel Mast, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder
© The Walking Roots Band, 2017
Ordinary Time // Week 3 // June 9-15
PASS ME NOT
O the bitter shame and sorrow
That a time could ever be
When I sat alone in shadow
In the silence hopelessly
There you found me, I beheld you
Bleeding on th’ accursed tree
Heard you pray, “Forgive them Father”
There your mercy found me
Pass me not, O gentle Savior;
Hear my humble cry
Whom have I on earth beside thee?
Savior do not pass me by
Day by day your tender mercy
Healing, helping, full and free
Sweet and strong, and oh so patient
Grace unending, giv’n for me
Grace unending, giv’n for me
Pass me not, O gentle Savior;
Hear my humble cry
Whom have I on earth beside thee?
Savior do not pass me by
Lyrics: Theodore Monod (1874) and Fanny Crosby (1868), alt., Seth Thomas Crissman, 2024
Music: Seth Crissman, 2024
Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Rachel Mast, Kristina Yoder
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 2 // June 2-8
THIS IS THE DAY
This is the day that the LORD has made
I will rejoice and be glad
Sorrows may come with fire and rain
But this is the day that the LORD has made
And this is the song that we’ll make
This is the hour that the LORD has made
I lift my head and my hands
We labor in dust, but never in vain
This is the hour that the LORD has made
And this is the song that we’ll make
This is the night that the LORD has made
I will find rest and give thanks
With wine on our lips, at a table we praise
This is the night that the LORD has made
And this is the song that we’ll make
Lyrics and music: William Sumner Leaton, 2024
Vocals: William Sumner Leaton and Elanor Leaton
© William Sumner Leaton, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 1 // May 26 - June 1
WONDERFUL CREATOR
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
When I look at the rocks, and the rocks and the trees,
when I look at the skies, and the skies and the seas
What do I see, what do I see, what do I see, what do I see?
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
When I look at the lemurs, and the lemurs and the bees,
and the bees and the pandas, red pandas in the trees
What do I see, what do I see, what do I see, what do I see?
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
‘Cause you made them all, LORD. You made them all so beautifully.
You made them all, LORD, with your creative infinity.
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
A wonderful creator, a wonderful creator
Lyrics: Philip Fisher-Rhodes, 2023
Music: Philip Fisher-Rhodes, 2023
Vocals: Philip Fisher-Rhodes, Rachel Mast, Ebony Nicole
© Philip Fisher-Rhodes 2023
Pentecost // Week 14 // May 19-25
When we are afraid and have nowhere to turn
God, our help in trouble
When waters rise and forests burn
God, our help in trouble
When our last hope has been claimed
By the floods or by flame
Give us voice to call out your name
God, our help in trouble
When we are afraid and have nowhere to hide
God, our help in trouble
Mountains too high and rivers too wide
God, our help in trouble
When we don’t know what to do
And there’s no way through
Give us strength to call out to you
God, our help in trouble
When we are afraid and have nowhere to go
God, our help in trouble
When we find ourselves in a place we don’t know
God, our help in trouble
When we’re not sure who to trust
And our walls turn to dust
You are the one who will never leave us
God, our help in trouble
Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Chass Kreider, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder
Easter // Week 13 // May 12-18
For the bread, for the bread
Which you have broken
For the wine, for the wine
Which you have poured
For your word, for your word
Which you have spoken
Now we give you thanks, O Lord
Now we give you thanks, O Lord
Lyrics: Lewis F Benson, 1924 (alt)
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman; arr. Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder, and Jackson Maust, 2023
Vocals: Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Greg Yoder
Easter // Week 12 // May 5-11
I will sing
I will sing
I will sing to the LORD all my life
I will sing praise to my God
As long as I live
Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 104:33 (NIV)
Music: Nichole Barrows and Nicolas Melas, 2024
Vocals: Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole, Nicolas Melas
Easter // Week 11 // April 28 - May 4
Ten years old, lying in bed, round and round they go, thoughts race through my head
Grand Prix, green, yellow, and red, checkered flags ain’t slowing or quelling my dread
Peeling out at the boom of the starting gun.
Was that a boom in my room? Ok, now the party’s done
But the race is on, covers over my head until the dawn
‘Cuz I can’t turn it off in the night, no, can’t turn it off in the night, no sleeping
Can’t stop my thoughts in the night, so
The lanes of my brain are filled with the beeping
Of a hundred thousand thoughts in a traffic jam
Hear sirens whine, now I’m imagining
Police chase, fire, or an ambulance
Getting back to sleep, man, I don’t stand a chance
Heart pounding, feel it in my ears
Cry out, “momma, please!” and she always hears and
Draws me near, whispers, “my child, there’s nothing to fear”
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
Simon Peter was an apostle
Peter was a leader, read about him in the Gospels
Started out as a fisherman,
Jesus called him out, be a fisher of men
Jesus called him out on the water, Peter want to follow
Then he got afraid, faith smaller, he start to falter, sea start to swallow,
Even though Jesus like the Rock of Gibraltar
Steady, sturdy, never-changing love
Peter knew Jesus like a hand knows a glove
But even though it fit, Peter couldn’t quit fear
Remember in the garden, that bit with the ear?
Lashed out, then afraid for his life
He denied Christ, not one, not twice,
But three times, before the rooster crowed
Then he wept bitterly, because he said he didn’t know Jesus,
Still God’s perfect love is strong enough
To take Simon Peter from the waterfront
And—even with his flaws and all—
make him a rock
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
“4:12 No one has ever seen God;
if we love one another, God lives in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us,
because he has given us of his Spirit.”
“4:19 We love because he first loved us.”
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear
Perfect love casts out fear
Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023, with direct quotation of 1 John 4:12-13, 18a, 19 (NRSV)
Music: Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Greg Yoder, Nicolas Melas, Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder
Easter // Week 10 // April 21-27
Gentle Shepherd, when we wandered
You searched until you found us
Gentle Shepherd, everywhere we are
Your love is all around us
Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2018
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2018
Surely goodness and mercy
Surely goodness and mercy
Surely goodness and mercy
Shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD
And I will dwell in the house of the LORD
For ever
Lyrics: Direct quotation of Psalm 23:6 (KJV)
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, Jackson Todd Maust, Mitchell Reid Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Jackson Maust, Eastern Mennonite High School Chamber Choir
Easter // Week 9 // April 14-20
For the bread, for the bread
Which you have broken
For the wine, for the wine
Which you have poured
For your word, for your word
Which you have spoken
Now we give you thanks, O Lord
Now we give you thanks, O Lord
Lyrics: Lewis F Benson, 1924 (alt)
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman; arr. Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder, and Jackson Maust, 2023
Vocals: Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Greg Yoder
Easter // Week 8 // April 7-13
If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just
And will forgive us our sins and purify us
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
And will forgive us our sins and purify us
Faithful, faithful and just
Faithful and just and will forgive us
Purify us from all unrighteousness
Purify us from all unrighteousness
Lyrics: Direct quotation of 1 John 1:9 (NIV)
Music: Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole, Seth Crissman, and Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Mitchell Yoder, Rachel Mast, students of Redeemer Classical School
Easter // Week 7 // Mar. 31 - Apr. 6
Early on the first day of the week
I slip into the darkness, while the garden lays sleeping
Feel the dew upon my hand, cool from the weeping of the stone
Night still clings heavy like a shroud
I whisper to the emptiness, and the echo is as loud
As thunder, it’s a wonder that the dead still slumber and leave us here alone
They have taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone
Then all the world is in motion
Running, like waves, trying to outrun the ocean
They overtake each other, brother tumbling over brother,
To the threshold, but daring not go in
Standing in the flowers, unbelieving
Hearing voices in the garden, “Woman, why are you grieving?”
They have taken him away,
And I do not know where they have taken him
They have taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone
Someone has taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone
Now I have seen the lilies of the field
And I have seen the sparrows winging o’er
But if this is how you show your love
I’m not sure I can take much more
Early on the first day of the week
I slip into the darkness, where the gardener is keeping
watch over the mourning ones,
He’ll watch until the morning comes aflame
“Sir, if you have carried him away,
Tell me where you laid him so I may go to him today”
His silence breaks my spirit, then so soft I barely hear it
He remakes me with the whisper of my name
I know they have not taken him
For I have seen the coming dawn
Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023
Music: Greg Yoder, Valerie Bess, and Taylor Bess, 2023
Vocals: Valerie Bess, Taylor Bess
Lent // Week 6 // Mar. 24-30
Hosanna, loud hosanna the little children sang;
through pillared court and temple the lovely anthem rang.
To Jesus, who had blessed them, close folded to his breast,
the children sang their praises, the simplest and the best
"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,
for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.
From Olivet they followed amid an exultant crowd,
the victory palm branch waving, and chanting clear and loud.
"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,
for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.
"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,
for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.
Lyrics: Jennette Threlfall, 1873, alt.
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Bethany and Micah Spicher Schonberg
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye wastes away from grief, O LORD, my soul and body also,
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead
I have become like a broken vessel.
But I trust in you, O LORD; I trust in you, O LORD;
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." "You are my God."
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast love.
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me
Lyrics: Direct quotation of Psalm 31:9-10, 12, 14, 16 (NRSV)
Music: Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Kristina Yoder
Lent // Week 5 // Mar. 17-23
Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls
Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls
Into the earth and dies
It remains just a single grain
But if it dies, it bears much fruit
No need, no need to fear decay
Our inner nature being renewed day by day
Every tear gon’ be wiped away
Resurrection in Jesus’ name
Resurrection in Jesus’ name
Resurrection in Jesus’ name
Lyrics: Direct quotation of John 12:24 (NRSV), with additional verse by Nicolas Melas, 2023
Music: Nicolas Melas, 2023
Vocals: Nicolas Melas, Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole
