Free Stuff
My sheet music and other free resources are available here. Just follow this link.
These things are under a Creative Commons license that allows you to download them and copy them freely—for any non-commercial use.
Enjoy!
Store
I have books, CDs, and a video series for sale from my store page. (I wish I could just give everything away, but one must eat!)
I’m especially excited about my new book, now available: My Burden Is Light: A Pastor’s Plea for Rationality, Honesty, and Humility.
About
Merry, Mystical Missives
Here you’ll find everything I’ve sent out to the mailing list for The Merry Mystic.
Christmas Song: Be Born in Us Tonight
Hello, friends!
I’m working on five new songs (hymns? carols?) for Advent and Christmas. Here’s the first: Be Born in Us Tonight. There’s a verse for each Sunday in Advent, and one for Christmas Eve. The “full” sheet music has a keyboard accompaniment; the “voice” sheet music has just hymn parts, and it’s laid out for a US legal-size sheet, to print and fold.
There’s also a video of it here.
To a Horse’s Rear
Hello, friends!
Here’s a little song in response to the recent election here in the United States. (We all have our own ways of coping!) The lyric is in sonnet form—plus a few parenthetical phrases. It’s just a trumpery little sonnet, really, and I offer it with apologies to William “Shifty” Shakespeare.
An Evening Wasted with Adam Brooks Webber, Online
Here’s a quick (35 s) video I put together to advertise my concert, “An Evening Wasted with Adam Brooks Webber”:
I hope some of you can make it in person. If not, don’t despair: you can use this link to the livestream on YouTube on Friday night, 7:00 p.m. Central. The video there should continue to be available after the concert is over.
An Evening Wasted with The Merry Mystic
Hello friends,
I’ll be emerging from my cave next month to give a live concert. The dates are Friday, October 18th, 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 19th, 2:00 p.m. The location is the Open Prairie United Church of Christ, which is at 25 E. Marion Street in Princeton, Illinois—behind the Apollo Theater. (Long ago, the Apollo had a stage for vaudeville shows. That’s fitting: my songs are vaudeville-adjacent!) Admission is free, with a free-will offering to support the host church, and refreshments will be offered at the intermission.
The Merry Mystic's head is packed with all the songs he'll spout. That's why his hair is growing thin: To flee the madcap mess within, the crew is bailing out!
Hope to see you there!
Bright blessings,
Adam
These are the (mostly video) messages sent out to The Merry Mystic mailing list.
Sermons and Such
Every week, I preach in the Open Prairie United Church of Christ in Princeton, Illinois. I’m not sending most of these out to The Merry Mystic mailing list; but on the outside chance you’d like to see a sermon, here they are.
The Dark Night
Have you ever felt like God was far away? So have I.
Kairos Bathing
Immerse yourself God’s time stream, where God may always be found.
Anti-Christian Bias
Concerning President Trump’s “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,” I have some suggestions for the Attorney General about where to look.
Trinity Sunday Thoughts
It’s only Sunday in the church year devoted to a dogma or doctrine: Trinity Sunday.
Cradle Speech
What’s the best language to use when speaking with God?
Disappointed in Church
Have you ever been disappointed by a religious institution? Well, so was Jesus.
The Parable of the Piles
Could you make a quick 500% or 1000% return on an investment? Neither could the people to whom Jesus told this parable.
Sort Not, Lest Ye Be Sorted
Two thousand years later, we’re still sorting people way too often.
My Man Thomas
What I think we can learn, and what I think we shouldn’t learn, from the story of Doubting Thomas.
The New Normal
Having known Jesus, we can’t just go back to counting the fish!