Vol. 7 // Ordinary Time

In the little moments

In the in between

In the cracks in the sidewalks

In the miracle of green shoots

Peaking through to smile at you

Where life has never been easy

Breezes in the trees can remind you

God is, God has always been, and God will always be in the ordinary

In the little moments

In the laughter of a child

In hair plastered to her face

As she goes dashing wildly

Through springy fields, wings revealed,

Butterflies and bare feet,

Muddy footprints in the kitchen may remind me

God is, God has always been, and God will always be in the ordinary

In the stack of dishes, in the clothes piled in the hall

In the whisper of a loved one, in the bitter tears that fall

In the sunlight, in the shadow, in the days as they unwind

In the minutes that unfold themselves into a whole lifetime

God is, God has always been, and God will always be in the ordinary

Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Nichole Barrows, Kristina Yoder

BEFORE YOU FORMED THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS

Before You formed the highest mountains

Before You poured out the waters of the sea

Before You spoke and You created

You were and forever will be

Before You formed the ground beneath us

Before You called us, called us each by name

Before You breathed Your breath into us

You were and You never change, You never change

You are Maker of the universe, and Savior of our souls

Liberator and our Creator, the One who makes us whole

There is not a place that we can be that Your love isn’t waiting patiently

Maker of the universe, Savior of our souls

Before You formed the ground beneath us

Before You called us, called us each by name

Before You breathed Your breath into us

You were and You never change, You never will change

Holy, Holy One

Holy God, Three in One

Who was, and is, and is to come

Holy, Holy, Holy

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Lauren Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder

I don’t know if we’re ready

I don’t know if we’re strong

But I know that Jesus can steady any

Rocky boat and make the waters calm

Jesus, make us ready

Teach us what You’d have us do

Jesus, give us courage

To work like You

Give us Your work

Teach us how to work Your land

Give us Your work

Give us Your labor in our hands

Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ben Luna, Ebony Nicole

Come to me, all you that are weary

and are carrying heavy burdens,

and I will give you rest.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Matthew 11:28, 30

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Nichole Barrows

God, I’m way down again,

tryin’ to pull myself up, pull myself up,

These bootstraps are wearin’ thin,

and I think they might bust, think they might bust

People say you help those who help themselves, but I

Am tearin’ at the seams, fixing stitches in my dreams each night

God, I’m spread way too thin,

in pretty deep, in pretty deep,

Muscles worn, bone-tired again,

but can’t seem to sleep, can’t seem to sleep

Walking on a line weighs heavy on a mind made tough

God, I am afraid, I don’t know if I have faith enough

I can’t make it on my own. Help me

God, I feel overwhelmed,

just tryin’ to keep up, tryin’ to keep up,

Wish that I could rest my eyes,

but I can’t seem to, I can’t seem to

No room for a mistake, can’t figure out a way to stop

God, I am afraid, I know I don’t have faith enough

I can’t make it on my own. Help me

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Taylor Bess, 2023

Vocals: Taylor Bess, Valerie Bess

Come, ye sinners, poor and needy

Weak and wounded, sick and sore

Jesus ready stands to save you,

Full of mercy, love and pow’r

Come ye thirsty, come, and welcome,

God’s free bounty glorify

True belief and true repentance

Every grace that brings you nigh

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me and call me His own

In the arms of my dear Savior

My restless soul will find a home

Come, ye weary, heavy laden

Come, ye burdened, and alone

Look, a river, living water

Flowing out of rock and stone

I will arise and go to Jesus

He will embrace me and call me His own

In the arms of my dear Savior

My restless soul will find a home

Lyrics: verses - J. Hart, 1759, alt.; chorus - Anonymous/traditional

Music: The Walking Roots Band, 2023

Vocals: Ebony Nicole, chorus: Nichole Barrows, Perry Blosser, Seth Crissman, Jackson Maust, Greg Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Lauren Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Melody Zimmerman

Each morning brings us fresh outpoured

The loving kindness of the LORD

It ends not as the day goes past

But gives us strength while life shall last

It gives us strength for God’s own will

That we may love and follow still

‘Til evening’s sun is sinking low

And we have further yet to go

To go and show God’s love we’re called,

For we are the hands and feet that walk;

So walk, whether night or brightest day,

That we might always—come what may—

Be Jesus’ feet and Jesus’ hands,

Through waters high, over sun-parched lands,

Carrying the peace of God’s kingdom

And the love we see when the morning comes

Lyrics: verse 1 - Johannes Zwick, 1536; verses 2-4 - Greg Yoder, 2015

Music: Greg Yoder, 2015

Vocals: Jackson Maust, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder

In the beginning

In the beginning, God created

In the beginning, God created

the heavens and the earth, the heavens and the earth

Now the earth was formless and empty,

darkness was over the surface of the deep,

and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said,

“Let there be light,”

and there was light.

God said, “Let there be light,” separated the day from the night,

And the water from the sky, and the water from the dry land,

I can’t understand, but I definitely agree it was good

Writing this verse while I walk through the wood

And the leaves are good, and the trees are good,

And I step into the meadow, where the bees are good

Collectors of nectar, buzzing ‘bout the hive

Take a breath, take it in, you’re alive

And the birds go on by, and my words wanna fly, and search the sky

‘Cause I can’t sing your praises enough

Before there was anything, God was

I can’t sing your praises enough

Before there was anything, God was

Lyrics: direct quotation of Genesis 1:1-3, with verse by Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Greg Yoder, Ebony Nicole, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder

When we listen for God at the start of the day

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

We’re following Jesus, who taught us to pray

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

When we take good care of our bodies and minds

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

We can make good use of God’s gifts and God’s time

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

When we make a mistake or get hurt by a friend

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

The forgiveness of Jesus knows no end

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

When we see friends and strangers who are in need

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

Jesus shows us the way, let us follow His lead

Let us do what we do because of Jesus

Lyrics: Mitchell Yoder, Seth Thomas Crissman, and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Mitchell Yoder and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Nichole Barrows, Ben Luna, Lauren Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, chorus: Perry Blosser, Jackson Maust, Ebony Nicole, Carol Tobin, Greg Yoder, Melody Zimmerman

Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes,

and I will observe it to the end.

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law

and observe it with my whole heart.

Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.

Turn my heart to your decrees, and not to selfish gain.

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 119:33-37

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Greg Yoder, Lauren Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Ebony Nicole

You will search for your sheep

Mountain high and valley deep

And You will find us, You will find us in our doubt

From our fear You will carry us out

You will search for Your sheep

For the Shepherd does not sleep

You will find us, You will find us in the thorn

You have known us, You have loved us from before we were born

Call us home, call us home

You will search for Your sheep

For the Shepherd does not sleep

You will find us, You will find us where we are

Torn and tattered, broken, battered, scared and scattered far

Call us home, call us home,

You are the Shepherd of the hungry and alone

Call us home, call us home

You will not leave us, for we are Your own

Call us home

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Lauren Yoder, Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder

It’s just a start

A fluttering of the heart

The tiniest bud on a tree

that becomes a leaf

The first sign of spring

The moment when everything

that was holding its breath can breathe again

With a sigh of relief

In the winter’s doubt

In our empty and desolate place

our souls cry out

to see Your face

You are in the spring’s first rain

Laughing wind and growing grain

Mighty waves and solid stone

You are hope, You are home

You are in each rising day

Every morning Your grace remains

We sing Your love because

You first loved us

The mountainside

Painted on canvas high above

Where oranges and reds collide

With the blue of the morn

We lift our eyes

And follow the sun, who rises

To curtsy and twirl and glide

Like she has every day since the world was born

In the coming dawn

In our hopes and our dreams and all our days

our souls cry on

and sing Your praise

You are in the spring’s first rain

Laughing wind and growing grain

Mighty waves and solid stone

You are hope, You are home

You are in each rising day

Every morning Your grace remains

We sing Your love because

You first loved us

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Mitchell Yoder, Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder

Now the day is over,

night is drawing nigh;

shadows of the evening

steal across the sky.

Jesus, give the weary

calm and sweet repose;

with your tend'rest blessing

may our eyelids close.

Comfort ev'ry suff'rer

watching late in pain;

Give courage to your laborers

That we may rise again

When the morning wakens,

then may we arise

Sure and strong and ready

in your holy eyes.

Lyrics: S. Baring-Gould, 1865, alt.

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ebony Nicole

Sun of my soul, O Savior dear,

it is not night if you are near;

O, may no earthborn cloud arise,

to hide you from my eyes.

Be near to bless me when I wake,

‘ere through the world your way I take;

abide with me, till in your love

I lose myself in heav'n above

Abide with me from morn till eve,

for without you I cannot live;

abide with me when night is nigh,

when night is nigh

Be near to bless me when I wake

‘ere through the world your way I take;

abide with me, till in your love

I lose myself in heav'n above

Lyrics: John Keble, 1820, alt.

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ben Luna, Nichole Barrows, and Ebony Nicole

Love must be sincere.

Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Be devoted to one another in love.

Honor one another above yourselves.

Never be lacking in zeal,

but keep your spiritual fervor,

serving the Lord.

Be joyful in hope,

patient in affliction,

faithful in prayer.

Share with the Lord’s people

who are in need.

Practice hospitality.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Romans 12:9-21

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Mitchell Yoder, Lauren Yoder

Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

Will hardship, or distress, or persecution,

Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

Will famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,

nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come,

nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,

will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Lyrics: direct quotation from Romans 8:37-39

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ben Luna, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

Worship the LORD with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the LORD is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 100:1-3

Music: Jonathan Crissman and Seth Thomas Crissman, 2021

Vocals: Jackson Maust, students of Redeemer Classical School

Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 100:4-5

Music: Jonathan Crissman and Seth Thomas Crissman, 2021

Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Melody Zimmerman

Do not be overcome by evil

But overcome evil with good.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Romans 12:21 and Matthew 5:44

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ben Luna, Mitchell Yoder, Greg Yoder

Do not be anxious about anything,

but in every situation,

by prayer and petition,

with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God.

Do not be anxious about anything,

but in every situation,

by prayer and petition,

with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God.

And the peace of God,

which transcends all understanding,

will guard your hearts

and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers and sisters,

whatever is true, whatever is noble,

whatever is right, whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—

if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—

think about such things.

And the God of peace will be with you.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Philippians 4:6-9

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Seth Crissman, Kristina Yoder

Jesus, keep me near the cross,

There a precious fountain;

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calv'ry's mountain.

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the Bright and Morning Star

Shed His beams around me.

In the cross, in the cross may my glory be!

May my soul be revived by the healing stream

Fruitful trees whose leaves are for healing

Grow on the bank of the stream

that flows from Calvary.

Near the cross! O lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me;

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o'er me.

Lyrics: Fanny Crosby, 1869 with chorus by Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: William Howard Doane (1800s), with chorus by Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Rachel Mast, Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder

You will go out in joy

and be led forth in peace;

the mountains and hills

will burst into song before you,

You will go out in joy

and be led forth in peace;

the mountains and hills

will burst into song before you,

and all the trees of the field

will clap their hands.

and all the trees of the field

will clap their hands.

You will go out in joy

You will go out in joy

You will go out in joy

Lyrics: direct quotation of Isaiah 55:12 (NIV)

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

Each breath, a hallelujah

Each song, our offering

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

For the turning of the seasons, we sing praise

For the turning of the seasons, we sing praise

Every frost, a benediction

Every dew, a warm embrace

For the turning of the seasons, we sing praise

Through the shadow of the valley, we’ll sing on

Through the shadow of the valley, we’ll sing on

And the wind that gently beckons

Is the whisper of Your dawn

Through the shadow of the valley, we’ll sing on

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

Each breath, a hallelujah

Each song, our offering

For Your goodness and Your mercy, we will sing

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman, Greg Yoder, and Lindsey FitzGerald, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2022

Vocals: Lauren Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder

So the last will be first,

and the first will be last.

Lyrics: direct quotation of Matthew 20:16

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Vocals: Seth Crissman