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  • "Featured" 26
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  • Communal Worship 71
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Peace, My Mind
Peace, My Mind

“Peace, My Mind is a song of rest for those walking through the obstacles of mental health.” (Isaac Gill)

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Communal Worship, "Featured", JusticeCommon HymnalNovember 3, 2020Mark Alan Schoolmeesters, Justin Gray
Good & Fair
Good & Fair

”Pondering the question of what it means to be and become both good and fair, this song is simply a conversation between a man and his creator.” (Connor Stephen)

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Communal Worship, Singer-Songwriter, "Featured"Common HymnalOctober 22, 2020Connor Wheaton
Rise
Rise

”Three things come to mind when I think of inspiration for this song: personal unrest, reckoning with identity, and hopes for the future.” (Justin Gray)

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Communal Worship, JusticeCommon HymnalAugust 20, 2020Justin Gray
Black Boy Run
Black Boy Run

”You better run, black boy run.” (Justin Gray)

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JusticeCommon HymnalJuly 10, 2020Justin Gray
Innocent Lives
Innocent Lives

”On the day that Ahmaud Arberry was murdered, my heart broke once again at the injustice in our world.” (Mark Alan Schoolmeesters)

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JusticeCommon HymnalJune 25, 2020Mark Alan Schoolmeesters
Heaven's Here
Heaven's Here

"When we wrote Heaven's Here, I was picturing how God gives us opportunities to experience/stir up heaven right here on earth." (Kierre Bjorn)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalJune 12, 2020Kierre Bjorn Lindsay, Brittney Spencer, Will Retherford
For The Time We Have
For The Time We Have

A song for the times when we face the fragility and brevity of human life.

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Singer-Songwriter, Grief, "Featured"Common HymnalApril 17, 2020Tehillah Fouche, Connor Wheaton
God Is Not Abusive
God Is Not Abusive

”It almost sounds too simple to say aloud — ‘God is not abusive.’ Because no one ever should be.” (Brittney Spencer)

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Communal Worship, "Featured", JusticeCommon HymnalMarch 5, 2020Brittney Spencer, Ben Hardesty
God Will Heal Our Wounds
God Will Heal Our Wounds

“As this co-write began, I mentioned how I’d never written a song out of a part of scripture that has been a life verse for me: Isaiah 58.” (Aaron Strumpel)

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Communal Worship, "Featured", JusticeCommon HymnalFebruary 6, 2020Terrell Wilson
Blue Collar Praise
Blue Collar Praise

“Blue Collar Praise is a return of sorts to the simpler ways of following Jesus in ordinary work-a-day life.” (Andy Squyres)

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Communal Worship, JusticeCommon HymnalJanuary 16, 2020
Take Me As I Am
Take Me As I Am

”We are accepted just as we are, and there's absolutely nothing we can do to earn the love or affection of our heavenly father.” (Emily Brimlow)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalJanuary 9, 2020
There Is No Higher Name
There Is No Higher Name

"As people from all generations, all walks of life, all nations begin to gather around the one name that unifies us all, everything on earth begins to shift." (Mark Alan Schoolmeesters)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalDecember 18, 2019Mark Alan Schoolmeesters
My First Name
My First Name

“This song shines a bright light on the need for friends, community, inclusion and meaningful relationships. It makes space for the courage to say that you’re looking for home when you can't seem to find your place in the world around you.” (Brittney Spencer)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalOctober 24, 2019Brandon Hampton, Brittney Spencer
Just To Be A Child Again
Just To Be A Child Again

”If I could go back in time and talk to 13-year-old me, I’d tell her that all the pieces of this sometimes puzzled life eventually fall into place.” (Brittney Spencer)

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Singer-SongwriterCommon HymnalOctober 10, 2019Brittney Spencer
New Name
New Name

”Names are a significant part of our identity. They represent our heritage, our tribe and give us that deep sense of knowing who we are and where we come from.” (Matthew Macaulay)

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Communal Worship, "Featured", JusticeCommon HymnalSeptember 26, 2019Justin Gray, Mark Alan Schoolmeesters
You Are Good (Your Mercy Endures)
You Are Good (Your Mercy Endures)

“This song is about the goodness of God juxtaposed against the suffering this world.” (David Brymer)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalAugust 29, 2019Gilbert Nanlohy
How Much Longer?
How Much Longer?

”An interesting fact: How Much Longer was conceived and written on a former plantation near a cemetery where slaves and Confederate soldiers were buried side by side." (Art Hooker)

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Communal Worship, JusticeCommon HymnalAugust 16, 2019Ben Hardesty
No Greater Joy
No Greater Joy

"No greater joy addresses the perspective of God around our shame. God leads us out of that shame by sacrificial love and empowers us to do the same for our brothers and sisters.” (Brandon Hampton)

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Communal WorshipCommon HymnalAugust 8, 2019Brandon Hampton
Refugee
Refugee

"I wrote this song after my fifth trip to Northern Iraqi Kurdistan." (David Brymer)

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Communal Worship, JusticeCommon HymnalJuly 25, 2019
Whiskey Lows
Whiskey Lows

"Jonathan Martin pushed me to sing this song last year at Reunion. I didn't know how well it would sit in a spiritual space because it's not a conventional church song." (Brittney Spencer)

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Singer-Songwriter, "Featured", JusticeCommon HymnalJuly 19, 2019Brittney Spencer
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