Choral Arrangements

Note: These arrangements are not to be used with the orchestrations. The orchestrations have their own choral arrangements that are more suitable for them.

Shout With Delight - SATB Choral arr.

Shout With Delight is the title song from Christway Media's initial release.

Of all the Psalms, perhaps only Psalm 23 has been sung more often and in more settings than Psalm 100. The shear exuberance of its adoring praise is a rebuke to those of us with tepid hearts and merely formal love for God. This paraphrase links the major themes of Psalm 100 with another common biblical image: God is our Rock - trustworthy, steady, immovable. "For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." (Ps. 100:5)

Shall Forests Hide Their Beauty? - SATB Choral Arr.

In our great urban centers, many of us are removed from nature and do not easily reflect on some of the ways that creation, to the biblically-informed mind, points us to the glories of its Maker. The recurring questions in this song remind us that in the created order things behave according to their nature: lambs gambol in green fields, rainbows display their subtle colors in the eastern sky, forests disclose their multi-faceted beauties. So it is unthinkable that children of God, living this side of the cross, should not disclose their nature.

Long Have I Pondered - SATB Choral Arr.

"Familiarity breeds contempt," they say. It doesn't have to be that way, but it often is. For Christians, the cross, precisely because of its familiarity, is sometimes treated with indifference, if not contempt. But the cross was not an indifferent symbol in Jesus' day. In the ancient world, the Romans had various ways of executing people. Crucifixion was reserved for the dregs of society. The cross was a symbol of the debased, the despised, the cursed, the damned. At very least we must ask if our cross-shaped ear-rings and lapel buttons merely domesticate the symbol, or preserve its wretched shame. For here is the Master of the universe, dying in agonizing odium for the people he made. Reserve time to meditate on the cross.