Sermon Songs For the Gospel According to Mark

Sermon Songs for the Gospel According to Mark is a collection of poems related to sacred music, based on a series of twenty-nine sermons delivered by the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Myers, Florida. Each Sunday, from the summer of 2023 to Easter of 2024, I took sermon notes and turned the notes from the text and the homily into the new musical genre I call the sermon song. From Christ's baptism and temptation, set to "e;Morning Has Broken,"e; to the empty tomb, set to "e;Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,"e; with hymn tunes, folk songs, children's songs, and my own compositions, I take the reader on a lyrical, spiritual journey through the shortest but perhaps the most profound of the four Gospels.