Ordinary Time // Week 17 // Sept. 15-21
THE WAY YOUR KINGDOM COMES
I called to you, LORD
I called to you, LORD
I called to you, LORD
You answered me
I wasn’t looking
When I wasn’t looking
Where I wasn’t looking
You answered me
The LORD doesn’t call from the top of a tower
But comes in the tiniest seed of a flower
And we sleep and rise and rub our eyes
That a new day has begun
We sleep and rise and change our minds
In the way your kingdom comes
I held fast to you, LORD
I held fast to you, LORD
I held fast to you, LORD
You held fast to me
I grew weary and mad
Impatient and sad
Couldn’t see what I had
You held fast to me
The LORD doesn’t call for fire and smoke
But comes in the tiniest seed of an oak
Birds weave in and out and nest about
The branches of your love
Birds weave in and out and do not doubt
The way your kingdom comes
I cried out to you, LORD
I cried out to you, LORD
I cried out to you, LORD
You comforted me.
Though I had strayed
I turned away
Couldn’t see what you made
You comforted me
The LORD doesn’t call just the pious and perfect
But comes to the hearts of the anxious and burdened
Who fret and pace and find our place
In the pages of your love
We fret and pace til we rest in grace
The way your kingdom comes
The way your kingdom comes
The way your kingdom comes
Lyrics and Music: Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, 2024
Vocals: Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, Rachel FitzGerald
© Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 16 // Sept. 8-14
NO ROCK LIKE OUR GOD
There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you
There is no Rock like our God, no Rock like our God
Ok, life has its ways of tossing me about, and I’ma shoot straight ‘bout my faith and my doubt
Some days, wooo! I’m lounging on a cloud, cumulus, and I trust, ‘cuz the sun is out
Got faith, and it’s easy, winds lazy, gentle, and breezy
Lemonade stand, lemon, lemon squeezy, Kraft Mac, easy, breezy, squeezy, cheezy
But some days, whoa, the clouds turn gray, and the wind gonna blow my faith away
And the sugar run low, just lemons for days, and my words don’t flow, and my songs of praise
Shrivel up, turn to dust on my tongue, tossed by the storm, don’t trust that the sun
Gonna shine. Is it gonna shine?
There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you
There is no Rock like our God, no Rock like our God
The rains come down, and the streams rise, the winds blow, and beat at the sides
Of the house, but it’s built by the wise man, standing on the rock till clear skies
And red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—like a saltarello—leap across the sky, and
Dance to the mellow cello, the fellow on telenovela, every time returns, Renaissance ritornello
A real Donatello, carved in the rock, trust in the Lord, tick-tock of a clock
Pendulum gonna come back, ready or not, ready, ready, and steady, never start, never stop
Never change, never fail, never falter though the water and the winds prevail
They gonna blow, and gust, but we know we have a Rock to trust
Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an everlasting rock,
Ever, everlasting rock
There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you
There is no Rock like our God, no Rock like our God
Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2024, with direct quotation of 1 Samuel 2:2 and Isaiah 26:4 (NRSV)
Music: Greg Yoder, 2024
Vocals: Greg Yoder, Nicolas Melas, Mitchell Yoder, Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole, Kristina Yoder, Lauren Yoder, Rachel Mast, Jackson Maust
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 15 // Sept. 1-7
DO WHAT IT SAYS
Do not merely listen to the word,
and so deceive yourselves.
Do not merely listen to the word,
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says.
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says. (James 1:22)
Bear with each other and forgive one another (Colossians 3:13)
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. (Colossians 3:15)
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says.
Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (James 1:19b)
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love your neighbor as yourself. (Mark 12:31)
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says.
In everything do to others what you would have them do to you. (Matthew 7:12)
Do not merely listen to the word,
and so deceive yourselves.
Do not merely listen to the word,
Do what it says. Do what it says. Do what it says. (James 1:22)
Lyrics: direct quotations of James 1:22, Colossians 3:13,15, James 1:19, Mark 12:31, and Matthew 7:12 (NIV)
Music: Greg Yoder, Seth Thomas Crissman, Jonathan Crissman, Nichole Barrows, Rachel Mast, Perry Blosser, 2024
Vocals: Carleigh Zarchin, Aubri Michael, Vera Rose, Miriam Houff, Hannah Houff, Isla Irons, Tess Hughes, McKenna Zarchin, students of Redeemer Classical School, and students of Augusta Christian Academy
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 14 // Aug. 25-31
VIVIMOS POR FE, NO POR VISTA
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
When the future is uncertain, no por vista
And we can’t see behind the curtain, no por vista
When the future is uncertain, and we can’t see behind the curtain
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
When the way is scary, no por vista
And heavy things we carry, no por vista
When the way is scary, and heavy things we carry
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
When the road is jagged, no por vista
And we’ve run ourselves ragged, no por vista
When the road is jagged, and we’ve run ourselves ragged
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
We live by faith, and not by sight
And the promise of the morning’s gonna take us through the night
Not by sight, we live by faith
And the promise of the night is gonna see us through the day
En efecto,
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos por fe, no por vista
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
Vivimos, vivimos, vivimos por fe
Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2024, with direct quotation of 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NVI)
Music: Seth Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2024
Vocals: Chass Kreider, Nicolas Melas, Lauren Yoder, Mitchell Yoder
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
Ordinary Time // Week 13 // Aug. 18-24
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 12 // Aug. 11-17
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 11 // Aug. 4-10
I WAIT FOR THE LORD
I wait for the LORD
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
watchmen wait for the morning,
I wait for the LORD
Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD;
LORD, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to my cry
for mercy.
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins,
LORD, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
so that we can,
Serve you,
with reverence, serve you.
I wait for the LORD,
my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
I wait for the LORD
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
watchmen wait for the morning,
I wait for the LORD
Lyrics: Direct quotation from Psalm 130:1-6 (NIV)
Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023
Vocals: William Sumner Leaton, Ebony Nicole
© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024
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
