SKU: A0.482463

Back when I was a substitute teacher, I had to keep a music teacher's K, 1st, and 2nd graders occupied. I did an impromptu song with an autoharp that kept them laughing the whole period.

SKU: A0.1208298

This lively combination of the traditional Liberian folk song Take Time in Life and the words of choral educator James Wells is a great reminder to take time out of our days to praise the Lord! Written for two-part chorus, but a smaller third part is included in cue-sized notes for developing choristers, or for baritone or tenor voices. For the rhythm parts, the minimum suggested instrumentation is acoustic guitar, but instructors are welcome to add in any plucked stringed instrument of their choosing (mandolin, ukulele, banjo, autoharp, dobro, electric bass, upright bass, banjolele, it's up to you!) to the mix if so intended.

SKU: A0.1342819

JESUS WAS WALKING is a sermon song based on the sermon On the Way to Jerusalem preached by Dr. Paul de Jong at First  Presbyterian Church, Fort Myers Florida, on December 3, 2023.  It is an arrangement of the children's song, Walking With Jesus which I first learned in French in Haiti in 1965. I have seen it with cartoons on the internet in Portugese, Spanish and Japanese.  My lyrics are anything but childlike.  They portray what Mark 10:32-52 tells of the march of Jesus to Jerusalem, where he lays out to the tone deaf disciples that he will be delivered to the priests, and Gentiles, killed, but on the third day he would arise from the dead. And having heard this, James and John ignore his message and want to know who will sit on his right and left when his kingdom comes.  He has to correct them that his kingdom was not like that of the Gentiles.  The other ten disciples rebuke James and John, but Jesus teaches them that to be great, one must be a servant to all. Finally, a blind man comes forward asking a favor, but unlike  James and John, he only asks in humility that he might see. His faith heals him and the march goes on.

Guitar chords are provided and an autoharp would be appropriate.