Vol. 10 // Ordinary Time

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

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

Faithful God, your loving heart is always kind

Even when we run away and have no one else

You find us where we are

You speak peace, to our fears and unbelief

When we are afraid, the faithful hands that made us

Remind us who we are

With your Word on our hearts and your Love on our lips

Give us courage, God, give us courage

To follow your movement wherever it is leading

Spirit lead us, Spirit lead us

Hosanna, (hosanna), save us God

Hosanna, (hosanna), save us God

Lyrics and Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2019

Vocals: Lauren Yoder, Rachel Mast, Mitchell Yoder

© The Walking Roots Band, 2019

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

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

Jesus wept

Jesus wept

Jesus wept

And he weeps with me

O Jesus,

O Jesus,

O Jesus wept

Jesus wept

Jesus wept

Jesus wept

And he weeps with me

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Nichole Barrows, 2024, with direct quotation of John 11:35

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Nichole Barrows, 2024

Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Rachel Mast, Valerie Bess, Nichole Barrows, Lauren Yoder, Kristina Yoder

© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024

Lord, have mercy

Christ, have mercy

Lord, have mercy on me

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2024

Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Rachel Mast, Greg Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Jackson Maust

© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024

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

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

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

God’s love is in us,

God’s love is in us,

God’s love is in us,

So let it grow

Lyrics: participants in the Creativity and Movement in Worship Workshop at Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, 2023

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ruthie Yoder

© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024

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

Blessed be the name of the LORD

from this time on and forevermore.

Blessed be the name of the LORD

From the rising of the sun

to its setting the name of

the LORD is to be praised.

From the rising of the sun

to its setting the name of

the LORD is to be praised.

Blessed be the name of the LORD

from this time on and forevermore

Blessed be the name of the LORD

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I say to the LORD, “You are my LORD;”

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I have no good apart from you.

Blessed be the name of the LORD

from this time on and forevermore

Blessed be the name of the LORD

Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 113:2-3 and Psalm 16:1-2

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2024

© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Faith and hope and peace and love

Is the way the kingdom comes

Not through the proud or the unjust

But the lowliest of us

So do not keep the little children from him

Don’t you see how he set those tables tumbling?

Do not keep the little children from him

It’s how we’ll see the kingdom coming

A little baby in the dust

Who bore the name of Jesus

A Savior, merciful and just

For the lowliest of us

So do not keep the little children from him

Don’t you see how he set those tables tumbling?

Do not keep the little children from him

It’s how we’ll see the kingdom coming

Faith and hope and peace and love

Is the way the kingdom comes

Not through the proud or the unjust

But the lowliest of us

Lyrics and Music: Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, 2024

Vocals: Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, Soil and Seed Family Kids

© Lindsey FitzGerald Stine, 2024

I praise you, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

I praise you, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

I praise you, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works; Wonderful are your works;

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written

all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end

—I am still with you.

you who formed my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

I praise you, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works; Wonderful are your works

Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.

Lyrics: Direct quotation of Psalm 139:4-6, 13-14, 16-18 (NRSV)

Music: Greg Yoder, 2024

Vocals: Michael Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Jackson Maust

© The Soil and The Seed Project, 2024

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth;

for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away

and the sea was no more.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

"See, the home of God is among mortals.

He will dwell with them as their God;

"See, the home of God is among mortals.

He will dwell with them as their God;

they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them;

he will wipe every tear from their eyes.

Death will be no more;

mourning and crying and pain will be no more,

for the first things have passed away."

Write this, for these words are trustworthy

Write this, trustworthy and true.

See, I am making all things new.

Death will be no more

Then he said to me, "It is done!

I am the Alpha and the Omega,

the beginning and the end.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Revelation 21:1, 3-4, and 6a, with parts of verse 5 (NRSV)

Music: Nicolas Melas, Greg Yoder, and Seth Thomas Crissman, 2024

Vocals: Nicolas Melas, Nichole Barrows, Greg Yoder

© Ears to the Ground Family, 2024

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

To gaze upon and learn of all your beauty, Lord, to gaze upon you

To gaze upon and learn of all your beauty, Lord, to gaze upon you

Do not hide your face from me, or cut me from the land.

If you leave me to my own, who will lend their hand?

If my enemies surround me, if my heart my should yield,

If my mother and my father leave, you will be my shield.

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

I believe that I will see the goodness of God

I believe that I will see the goodness of God

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

This one thing I ask, to dwell in the house of God, one thing I ask

Lyrics and music: William Sumner Leaton, 2024

Vocals: William Sumner Leaton, Ebony Nicole, Megan Bishop, Sara Gingerich, Jackson Maust, Greg Yoder

© William Sumner Leaton, 2024