Song/Hymn-writer Paul Baloche’s website, www.leadworship.com, is an anamoly in the world of commercially successful Christian artists.  Like a precious few others, he likes to offer songs and lead sheets for free!  He seems to get it, that these songs of worship – as in the days of Watts, Wesley and Fanny Crosby, need to be “out there” for the Body to use.  He also has a heart for making sure people learn from him, so he has many good “Thoughts on Worship”.

I want to specifically point you to his free songbook page.  For the non-musician, he has many full tracks you can listen to and be encouraged by (and may I encourage you to then go and buy one of his CDs, because you will be glad you did!).  For the church or private musician, most of his songs have available chord charts and lead sheets to download and use.  Of course, if you use them in worship, please be sure to give him proper credit and report the use to CCLI.

One of the neatest things about the songbook online is Paul’s sense of the seasonal.  He has placed songs for the Easter Season right there on top so you can access them.  A personal favorite right now is Great Redeemer, but there are many others worth giving a listen to!

Be blessed and equipped by this great resource!

• Dear Savior, Studio Version

• Dear Savior, Ever at My Side – Lyrics and Chords

My wife’s great grandfather, B.P. Story, once wrote the delightful text to this hymn and it was found, years later, by my mother in law, tucked away in an old hymnal.  His name and the date, Sept. 23, 1877 were written on the old, tattered paper.

Anne’s mom was then kind enough to entrust the lyrics to me, to put it to music.  With very few changes from the original text, this is the result of that effort.  I hope you enjoy.  Please, please, feel free to share it (or even put it to better music!!!) and let us know if you do.

In His Peace,
Tom

Hey!

Integrity Music is, by far, one of the world’s greatest sources of good, solid worship music and resources. Paul Baloche’s www.leadworship.com as an example is amazing.

Now, Integrity has a new resource: Songcast. You can just go to the website to download free songs and charts, plus you can embed it in your Facebook or other social networking site.

There’s a really powerful communion song (“Broken and Beautiful”) by Brian Doerksen featured on there right now.

Be blessed.

Hey!  Here’s the first of what I hope will be a long series of weekly song submissions.  All songs are written, co-written or arranged by me (unless I state otherwise because I just wanna brag on a fellow songwriter!).  Feel free to use them for the glory of God!

This song is called “Anointed One of God”.  It was recorded at a Christmas-season concert in 2004 at Church of the Good Shepherd in Davidson, NC.  The oboist is Liz McClure Chen.

To listen: tom-fisher-anointed-one-of-god

To print the sheet music: anointed-one-of-god

If you’re wondering about copyright… This is song’s copyright is registered with the Library of Congress.  However, because I want the songs I write to be freely used, I have decided to get me a Creative Commons License:

“Anointed One of God” by Thomas George Fisher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.blendedworship.wordpress.com.