Written for piano. This piano medley consists of two tunes: (1) a variation of Divinum Mysterium, an eleventh century work that accompanies the Christmas hymn “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” and (2) a tune I wrote to accompany the advent hymn, “In the Darkened Days of Winter.” Listen to a Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. This hymn deals with the real world that Jesus came into. It looks at the many challenges Mary faced which still exist today – but sees God’s light shining through. Listen to a soulless, computer generated, MIDI recording of this Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. Two verses of this hymn are the same as those in the anthem, “Though Death Claims Us, Death Can’t Hold Us!” I wanted to use that material again here with the Beach Spring tune, but use my own harmony. Listen Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. This hymn refers to Christ’s mission here on earth and is particularly appropriate for services in which the scriptures deal with Jesus’ baptism or refer to his comments in Nazareth which nearly got him thrown over a cliff. Listen to Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. I was led to write the hymn because of all of the racism, hatred and anti-immigrant sentiment that seized our beloved country shortly after our first African-American president was elected. Listen to a soulless, computer generated, MIDI recording of this Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. This hymn emphasizes our great Wesleyan theology which makes it clear that God is always about the business of loving and saving us. We are saved not just through Jesus’ death on the cross, but through his “taking on flesh Read more…
Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. About the turn of the century my brother Steve wrote a marvelous hymn. I was so moved by it, that I added a verse, trying to tie the hymn to a scripture passage normally read in advent.It is clear to Read more…
Written for organ, SATB choir, and oboe. Over thirty years ago, in the early 1980s, while I was living in Norfolk, VA, and stationed at CREDO (The Chaplains Religious Enrichment Development Operation), the Reverend DeWane Zimmerman was pastor at Phoenix’s First United Methodist Church, one of the then largest Methodist Read more…
Written for piano and SSAA choir. This was originally written as a hymn, but later turned into an anthem for a 4-part women’s group. This hymn refers to Christ’s mission here on earth and is particularly appropriate for services in which the scriptures deal with Jesus’ baptism or refer to Read more…
Written for piano and SSAA choir. This was originally written as a hymn and is based on the many scriptures pleading withIsrael to welcome strangers, since they were once strangers. I adapted the hymn for a four-part women’s group. I was led to write the hymn because of all of Read more…