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Songs

I Believe: (words and chords) This song says it all, Amen.

The Cross is the Key (words and chords) Take up your cross and follow Jesus (Mark 8:34)

Come Maranatha Come (words and chords) We’re going to meet Jesus in the air that day!

Jesus Reign Over Me (words and chords) Uplifting praise song … the promise of Salvation in Jesus Christ!

Broken Man (words and chords) Trusting and living the life of Jesus

God’s Love (words and chords) This is God’s wedding vows followed by the wedding procession

Live is More than Living in a Dream (words and chords) Wake up from out of the world! The Lord is coming soon!

This Waitress of Love (words and chords) This song was inspired by a dear servant of the Lord

You Can’t Get There Without Jesus (words and chords) The hard simple truth in a hard rock song format

Beyond This Moment: (words and chords) And for the upward call, I give my all and live ..(

Fool for Christ: (words and chords) Are you willing to trust God above your own reasoning? (1 Cor 4:10)

Every Day: (words and chords) A Beach Music Praise Song done during Chapel worship

Misfit Angel: (words and chords) This is first Christian song I ever wrote back in 1993

I Love You Lord (words and chors) I added a chorus and verse to this very worshipful song.

Were You There: (words and chords) Traditional Spiritual and I added a chorus

Love, Take Me to a Higher Place (words and chords) The higher place to live

O Come and Glory in the Cross ( words and chords) A song about your life that is hid in Christ

What a Beautiful Day for the Lord to Come Again: (words and chords) Oh yeah! sung by the Arena Family

It is Done: (words and chords) Good Friday which really occurred on Good Thursday

Easter Hallelujah by Kelley Mooney (words) I pray that Lennon Cohen will find this Hallelujah!

Hallelujah (my version) (words and cords) This song is Heavenly so I wrote some Hallelujah lyrics

Bow Down, Look Up, Rejoice: (words and chords) A worshipful praise song

I’m Finally Here in Heaven: (words) A song of comfort for a loved one that’s gone home

I will Carry the Cross with You: (words and chords) Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens …

Micah 6:8: (words and chords) Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with your God

Rescue, Rescue: (words and chords) That’s what Jesus came to do!

They Shall Look Upon the Lord: (words and chords) A promise to the Jews, Pat on Bass, Carla on vocals

What Did Job Know: (words and chords) Spiritual Therapy Band – Vic on lead guitar, Mick on drums

He is the One: (words and chords) This is the life of God the Son through the eyes of God the Father

Wake Up, Wake Up, Silent Night:: (words and chords) A New Christmas Praise song

To the Table:: (words and chords) A Communion song of worship

Videos:

My Jesus I Love Thee (Laura on piano, Roger and Alice) – Valentines 2016 – Chapel by the Sea:

You Deliver Me (sung by Roger at the Chapel):

Hallelujah (my version): (words and chords)

We have a small “praisey” group of people who lead praise at Chapel by the Sea. Here are the lyrics, chords and layout of how we do it each Sunday. Stay “praisey” my friends!

Song	Chords/Lyrics	Listen	Author/Notes
Awesome God	PDF	YouTube	Rich Mullins
Holy is the Lord God Almighty	PDF	YouTube	Chris Tomlin
I Will Carry the Cross	PDF	MP3	Roger Ricketts
In Christ Alone	PDF	YouTube	Keith Getty
It is Well with my Soul	PDF	YouTube	Matt Redman
America Bless God	PDF	MP3	Roger Ricketts
Lovely Lord	PDF	YouTube	Bob Hartman
Who Am I	PDF	YouTube	Casting Crowns

A testimony of the name, Rogersings

Thanks to God’s grace, I have salvation in Jesus Christ and some Christian songs to share with you. Some of these songs I’ve written and performed solo, some are songs I’ve written and played with my Chapel by the Sea praise group. Some I have performed with the group “Spiritual Therapy” when we sang at town festivals and some of the songs are great hymns of the past that I have added a chorus or verse, These songs are meant to glorify God, not me. My handle, “Rogersings”, is a name that I adopted as a testimony to my new life in Christ and my new life of singing for Christ.

In my teen years I sang in church choirs, the junior high and high school choirs. As a freshman in High School I was asked to sing a solo for the High School junior choir. I sang the solo in practice and before several small audiences without a hitch but on the day of the “big performance”, on stage in front of 2,000 people I was petrified with “stage shock”. I did sing the solo but I was singing it so fast, I kind of left the choir behind. I didn’t enjoy the experience and decided to quit choir and never to sing again in public.

In college I was the roadie, promoter and sound man for a band called “Jason”. The group played Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Beatles and the Grateful Dead (yea, that was the lead guitarist’s favorite group). The band played at Fraternities and a few times I tried to sing with the group but I couldn’t because I still had “stage fright” about performing in front of people and something just didn’t seem right about singing these songs. I even tried to play a little keyboard because I had 5 years of classic piano training but this seemed to hinder me instead of help me. In my sophomore year of college I went though a bad break up with my first girlfriend and true love. I also left the residential VT housing and lived in basement apartment with a roommate but the roommate lived at his Frat house most of the time. This left me alone with my thoughts and heart break, something I was not accustomed too … since I was raised by a wonderful Sicilian mother with three other siblings.

But I picked up an old guitar my father had given me years ago and drowned my sorrows by learning to play the guitar and singing James Taylor and John Denver songs. Once I left college, I set the guitar aside, concentrated on my career, my marriage and my family. But when I was 40 years old, I went through a divorce, nearly lost my job and finally lost the “people pleasing pride” that I clung too for meaning for life. I became a born again Christian and went from living in a family atmosphere to living alone in an apartment. And I remember my ol’ friend and I took comfort in in the guitar and the old love songs i use to sing. At that time I also heard a song by Kris Kristofferson “Why Me Lord”.

Why me Lord what have I ever done
To deserve even one of the pleasures I’ve known
Tell me Lord what did I ever do
That was worth loving You for the kindness You’ve shown

Lord help me Jesus I’ve wasted it so
Help me Jesus I know what I am
Now that I know that I’ve needed you so
Help me Jesus my soul’s in your hand

Try me Lord if you think there’s a way
I can try to repay all I’ve taken from you
Maybe Lord I can show someone else
What I’ve been through myself
On my way back to you

This song gave me inspiration to write my own Christian songs but I was still afraid to sing them in public, I started regularly attending Chapel by the Sea church (which I am still attending today) and told the lady who played the organ at the Chapel church that I had written a song and she encouraged me to sing it for the congregation. I said “Lord, you know I am afraid to sing songs in front of other people but I will sing them to You Lord if you will give me strength to overcome my fear“. And the Lord answered my prayer and one day I opened my mouth in the Chapel and sang to the Lord and “Rogersings” has been my testimony of faith in Jesus ever since that day.

Listen to Kris Kristofferson share his testimony about coming to Jesus and writing “Why Me Lord“. I find it interesting that Kris was inspired to write a Christian song by Larry Gatlin who he heard sing “Help Me”. And the tapestry of God’s Kingdom continues to be woven together in the lives of those who live by faith for Him.