'What Did You Mean?'

I've just finished a new ballad with my composer buddy, Greg Scheer, and you can listen to Greg singing the first verse of it here if you like What Do You Mean? You can also download a copy of the sheet music so that you can play it and sing it yourself.

Over the last two years, Greg and I have written a few dozen songs together, an assortment of Worship Songs and secular songs. Lots of them have now been recorded under the Sheer Joy Music label, and are available to buy online on that site. They include a CD of love songs, When I'm With You, recorded by Susan Marrs and released in June this year; a CD of worship songs, Beautiful Sound, sung in Russian and recorded by Lyra in St Petersburg, released last May; and a CD of worship songs, There is Joy, sung by a great choral ensemble called Cantoris, released about a year ago. You can hear samples from all of these CDs on the Sheer Joy Music website.

Greg Scheer is Minister of Worship at Church of the Servant in Grand Rapids and Music Associate at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. In addition to the volume of songs that he has co-written with me, his writings include The Art of Worship (Baker Books, Fall of 2006) and contributions to Reformed Worship, The Hymn, Call to Worship and Worship Leader and a chapter in New Songs of Celebration Render (forthcoming, GIA, ed C. Michael Hawn).

His music is available from Augsburg Fortress, WorshipToday, Faith Alive (forthcoming) and at www.gregscheer.com. Quite apart from all of this, Greg is also a composer of all sorts of music: choral anthems, rock and roll, classical compositions, hymns, etc. Why not pay a visit to his website and take a look and a listen for yourself.