NEW! Since our list of solos has grown a bit long,
you can now review them by category:
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Holy Places is about God's amazing power and presence. It might be useful for times when people travel or especially enjoy the outdoors. The solo can be accompanied by one guitar (although there is a praise team version as well).
For just about any time, the wonderful, classic Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing has been arranged for solo voice and guitar.
Morning Prayer is appropriate for personal prayer time, for summer services, or especially for Trinity Sunday (the Sunday after Pentecost). It is set for voice(s) with piano.
Out of the Box celebrates the saving work of Jesus, in both his life and death. The song can be done as a solo with guitar, or with a small group.
For the Thanksgiving holiday or anytime, Thanks-giving Song. There is a choice of musical treatments.
For the first Sunday of Advent's theme of hope, we offer
An Advent Thought. (With its alternate title, We See How Milkweed Pods...., it can apply to other times, too.) It is for solo voice and guitar.
For Christmas or pageants beforehand, we offer The Shepherds Recollect, a recounting of the shepherds' visit to the newborn Jesus. It is for male voice(s) and guitar (or synthesized "guitar").
For Christmas also we suggest He Arrives. This solo about Christ's birth is for female voice (and possible additional voices), accompanied by guitar and optional piano.
For the Sunday after Christmas, Keeping Christmas asks us to keep the gifts of the adult Christ as well as the gifts of his birth. It has piano accompaniment.
For Epiphany, we have specific versions of our praise-oriented song Out of the Box. It considers several astounding things about Christ. The song can be done as a solo with guitar, or with a small group.
Here, in These Months that Seem Like Winter uses examples from biological "resurrections" to talk about hope during extended seasons of seeming death. It has guitar accompaniment.
Song of John is from the point of view of John the disciple. It especially relates to Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet, but also to themes of loving, servanthood, and Jesus as the Bread of Life. It is set for baritone voice and guitar.
For late Easter Vigil-type services or Sunrise services on Easter Sunday, we offer On the Way, a lament in Mary Magdalene's voice as she goes to the tomb. Two endings are provided to the song—with her trodding onward, or with a hint of surprise. Our posted version is for mezzo-soprano voice and piano.
From Easter 2021 (difficult because of Covid), we offer Lord, How Long? It uses piano and percussion.
God Must Delight as Trees Leaf Out likens the new leafing of trees to our receptiveness to God. It has multiple options for accompaniment.
For Trinity Sunday (the Sunday after Pentecost), we suggest Creation. Cana. Pentecost.—a different sort of Trinity text for a hymn or solo.
It has many possible tunes and treatments.
Morning Prayer is also appropriate for Trinity Sunday, besides personal use or general use. It is set for voice(s) with piano.
Holy Places is about God's amazing power and presence. It might be useful for times when people travel or especially enjoy the outdoors. The solo can be accompanied by one guitar (although there is a praise team version as well.)
For midsummer, when gardens offer God's bounty, we suggest
A Summer Thanksgiving. The solo is set for guitar, although
there is also a piano-accompanied hymn version.
For the Thanksgiving holiday or anytime, Thanks-giving Song.
For communion, we present our somewhat different song
Lord, Before that Quiet Meal. It has a choice of tunes and can be accompanied with guitar or piano.
One Early Morning on a Shore is a sweet hymn or solo about the risen Christ feeding His disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The story comes up during the Easter Season of Year C, but the song can relate more generally to communion. It can be accompanied in various ways.
For the multiple summer Sundays in Year B that describe Jesus
as our bread—or for communion services in general—we offer
Jesus, Feed Us. It is arranged for solo voice and guitar.
About ministry to others, Love Can Be a Cup of Water.
It is arranged for piano.
Dear Lord, I Come Confessing addresses the urges to hate that have been fueled by violent acts or political division. It uses the tune KINGSFOLD, and can be accompanied by keyboards or guitar.
For discouraging times, we suggest Here, in Continued Months of Winter (or Here, in These Months that Seem Like Winter.) It is accompanied by guitar.
Forgiveness (Mercy's Dance) is appropriate for personal use, or as a discussion-starter about forgiveness. It is set for voice and guitar.
Let the Children Come to Me relates to several Bible passages about childlikeness and faith, and includes the story of the woman who just touched Jesus' cloak to be healed. This is for mezzo-soprano and piano.
Song of John is a solo from the point of view of John the disciple.
It especially relates to Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet, but also to themes of loving, servanthood, and Jesus as the Bread of Life. It is set for baritone voice and guitar.
Millions was the Debt is about Jesus convincing us to be forgiving to others. It has piano accompaniment.
We See How Milkweed Pods...., (alternate title An Advent Thought) uses natural examples to speak about hope. It is set for solo voice and guitar.
For personal use when worries are bothersome—or
for the Matthew teachings on worry—we present Worry Song.
It is set for voice and piano.
Declaring is our solo about faith, science, and God as Creator. It is for voice and guitar.
Our male solo The Younger Son dramatizes one of Jesus' best-known parables. It is accompanied by guitar, piano, bass, and percussion.
One Early Morning on a Shore is a sweet hymn or solo about the risen Christ feeding His disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is for the Easter Season of Year C, or possibly together with communion. There are multiple possibilities for accompaniment.
Millions was the Debt is about Jesus convincing us to be forgiving to others. It is especially based on the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant and the Parable of the Vineyard Workers. The accompaniment is piano.
Woman at the Well retells the story from John 4. It's set with piano.
Jesus, Guest of Many People could be a solo as various New Testament characters speak of their encounters with Jesus at their homes. There are options for accompaniment.
