Augsburg Fortress

Holden Prayer Around the Cross: Handbook to the Liturgy

Susan Briehl and Tom Witt co-authored this resource offering several liturgies for prayer services and a complete guide to understanding how to create a meaningful prayer service in any space.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Evening

9780806696812

Peace, Be Still: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Volume 3

In this third collection of hymn texts from the pen of Susan Palo Cherwien, we are offered thirty elegant poems intended to be sung by a worshiping assembly.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781506422220

O Day Full of Grace (revised edition)

A cheerful song of praise filled with embellished vocal lines ending with a strong declamation of Christian hope. Season: Advent

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Advent; Reformation

Build a Longer Table

John Helgen crafts a moving setting of a hymn of justice found in the worship supplement All Creation Sings. The text speaks of healing divisions and caring for those in need rather than shutting them out.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter; General

Of the Land and Seasons: Assembly Edition

Based on Evangelical Lutheran texts, this revised and updated version keeps the underlying concept of a paraphrase setting of holy communion that is based on rural rhythms of work and life.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781451470185

A Sparkhouse Songbook for Christmas

A downloadable songbook with complete words and music for 40 carols and hymns. Download and print as many copies as you would like with your purchase. Perfect for caroling with your community! 

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Prelude Music Planner Point Bundles

Worship & Praise Songbook

The People's Edition, containing words and a single melody line for each song. A few songs often sung in harmony are included in a four-part arrangement....

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806638508

Come, Beloved of the Maker: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Vol. 2

From the writer of hymn texts such as "O Blessed Spring" and "Rise, O Church, like Christ Arisen" comes this second collection of expressive texts for worship....

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806698090

O Blessed Spring: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien

Twenty-seven of Susan Palo Cherwien's hymn texts are collected in this volume, many of them set to music by a number of today's top composers, including Robert...

Voicing: Organ; Piano
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800656799

Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me

Based on the Gregorian "Adoro te devote," this Pentecost anthem has applications beyond that season. Perfect for a smaller choir, but equally successful with a...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Pentecost; Trinity

Pull Out the Stops, Vol. 3: Congregational Song Accompaniments for Organ

The third volume in this popular hymn accompaniment series will enrich worship and inspire singing. Includes introductions and harmonizations for over 85 tunes, including many from All Creation Sings. 

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Baptism; Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost

9781506496092

Dust, Remember You Are Splendor

Susan Palo Cherwien’s poetry brings new imagery and depth to the traditional Ash Wednesday themes of dust and repentance. Composer Anne Krentz Organ writes original music which underscores the hopeful and contemplative text.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Use: Ash Wednesday; Lent & Holy Week

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Tedde Gibson’s accompaniments for the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” for assembly and organ, brilliantly arranged in a Gospel style.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: General

9798889830986

Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Psalter for Worship, Year B

Includes the revised psalm texts, refrains, psalm tones, and keyboard accompaniments from Evangelical Lutheran Worship for Year B.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806653839

Love Astounding: Hymns of Jeannette M. Lindholm

This collection contains twenty-three hymns by Jeannette M. Lindholm. A highly useful volume for church musicians, pastors, and all who plan worship.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; All Saints; Baptism; Christmas; Communion; Creation; Easter; Epiphany; Evening; General; Healing; Holy Week; Lent & Holy Week; Marriage; Ordinary Time; Pentecost; Season after Pentecost; Time after Epiphany; Trinity; Wedding

9781506480060

Joyous Light: Evening Prayer Service: Leader and musician edition

A contemporary setting of evening prayer, offered in thanksgiving as daylight gives way to the night. Ray Makeever gives new shape to the song and psalms of an order of worship that has long brought a holy rest to the people of God.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Evening

9780800659318

Arise and Rejoice

Here is a joyful anthem of praise and thanksgiving from Mark Patterson. The original text celebrates the “gifts of age and youth, the wisdom of the years” and is paired with energetic and uplifting music.

Voicing: SATB, Children's choir, HB
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General; Ordination; Praise & Thanksgiving; Stewardship; Thanksgiving

Love Consecrates the Humblest Act

A graceful and elegant setting of the hymn tune TWENTY-FOURTH from Robert Powell which carries the beloved Maundy Thursday hymn text.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week; Maundy Thursday

Christ, Who Was Before the World Began

A newly composed tune is paired with an Angier Brock text in this anthem by Brenda Portman. Written for adult unison choir, the anthem features a lyrical and noble melody in a flexible mixed meter.  

Voicing: U, Org; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week