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: Star-Struck by the Stable Gate
Hello, friends!
Here’s the second in my series of five new songs/carols/hymns for Advent and Christmas. This one is a different take on the old story of the Animals’ Christmas. What if the animals at the stable were just waiting for human beings to finally get a clue? The sheet music with hymn parts is here:
Star-Struck by the Stable Gate (legal size, for folding)
Star-Struck by the Stable Gate (letter size)
There’s also a video of it here.
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.
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.
Satire Sunday
Making someone or something look ridiculous is never a nice thing to do—but sometimes, it’s the right thing to do.
Pascal’s Fire
The candles we use in church are more than just the comforting flicker of our religious tradition.
A Trustworthy Financial Adviser
Where can you turn for trustworthy financial advice? Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool has a suggestion.
The Lord’s Prayer
The words of the Lord’s Prayer—and the hidden ask.
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.