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I am releasing my first 10 CDs as free MP3s

No Hope But For Jesus 1999
Paul Ellingsen
My first CD. Probably my favorite because it's so simple. Just my vocal, my guitar and harmonica, and a little bass or percussion on a few songs, recorded on a 4 track analog recorder, for a cassette, later copied to a DAT for a CD. My son, Jeremy remastered it a few years ago to bring up the levels a little.

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Live In Paradise 01 Peace To My Soul
Live In Paradise 02 Unlike Any Other
Live In Paradise 03 More Than These
Live In Paradise 04 Hope For This World
Live In Paradise 05 None But Christ The Lord
Live In Paradise 06 Lord I Want To Thank You
Live In Paradise 07 Worship The God That Is Real
Live In Paradise 08 When Troubles Abound
Live In Paradise 09 He Brings Peace
Live In Paradise 10 Psalm 37
Live In Paradise 11 No Hope But For Jesus Not So Blue Blues
Live In Paradise 12 Amazing Grace

All You Ever Meant 2001
PBforJ (Paul and Bernadette for Jesus)
My first CD with Bernadette. Me (Paul Ellingsen) on lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, and mandolin and Bernadette Patrick performing backup vocals

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As A Child 01 He Saved My Soul
As A Child 02 Peace To My Soul
As A Child 03 Old Gray Haired Sinner
As A Child 04 Unworthy
As A Child 05 Illusion
As A Child 06 In Prayer
As A Child 07 I Love Him So
As A Child 08 Love At All Costs
As A Child 09 Streets Of Gold
As A Child 10 As A Child

Wish I Had A 2007
Cece and Me with the late Courtney Hay
One of my favorites. Courtney Hay did some beautiful sax and flute instruments on this CD. Especially enjoyed the harp-sax jam on "Moses Moses" and the flute on "Be Still". Paul sings lead vocals and plays guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and hammer dulcimer. Cece on backup vocals, mandolin, and bass. Allen Carlson on keyboard and Jeremy Ellingsen on lead guitar on Sanctified Boogie. Courtney graduated to heaven in 2018 after a battle with cancer.

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Wish I Had A 01 Higher Ground
Wish I Had A 02 On That HIllside
Wish I Had A 03 Yet Will I Trust Him
Wish I Had A 04 Forsake It All
Wish I Had A 05 Fisherman
Wish I Had A 06 Sweetest Gifts
Wish I Had A 07 With His Love
Wish I Had A 08 Moses Moses
Wish I Had A 09 Wish I Had A
Wish I Had A 10 Be Still (Psalm 46-10)

Christmas 2009
Cece and Me
4 Classic and 7 Original Christmas carols by Paul and Cece Ellingsen
King of Kings radio plays some of our Christmas songs duing the Christmas season

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Christmas 01 The Dilemma
Christmas 02 Silent Night
Christmas 03 Angels We Have Heard On High
Christmas 04 Your Handmaid
Christmas 05 Joy To the World
Christmas 06 Isaiah 25
Christmas 07 None But Christ the Lord
Christmas 08 Behold the Maidservant
Christmas 09 Remember Him
Christmas 10 Go Tell it On the Mountain
Christmas 11 Give Praise

The Road 2011
Cece and Me
Our most requested song "Nebuchadnezzar" is on this CD, with my growling Nebuchadnezzar voice and Cece's operatic echo. Because we get so many requests for this song, I re-recorded it on our newest CD "My Gravestone" recorded in 2020

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The Road 01 Impossible Things
The Road 02 Nebuchadnezzar
The Road 03 Walkin'
The Road 04 Nothing But The Blood (Instrumental)
The Road 05-06 Nothing But The Blood _ The Blood of Jesus
The Road 07 The Road
The Road 08 Still Small Voice
The Road 09 Psalm 136
The Road 10 May We Praise You
The Road 11 Eat The Fat
The Road 12 Seek Me
The Road 13 He Will Rejoice
The Road 14 Yea, Though I Walk Through
Otigionally track 5 "Nothing but the Blood" and track 6 "The Blood of Jesus" were two seperate tracks on the CD
Razzendahcuben Nebuchadnezzar backwards. Not on the origional CD. Sounds like a klingon rock opera

What Do Ya Do 2013
Cece and Me
Also one of my favorites. This CD (especially the title song) was being played a lot on King of Kings radio a few years ago and still get played occasionally.

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01 What Do Ya Do "What Do Ya Do" was written when I was actually out of work, sick, and the engine in the minivan needed replacing.

02 Eternity We love to go sailing with our 14' Hobie Cat on Kentucky Lake so I'm a little disappointed that in Rev 21:1 it says that there will be no more seas. Also Jesus said in Matt 22:30, "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." KJV But I know that God is the creator of every good thing. Even the good things that the world misuses and gives the evil one the credit for, like the sexual pleasure that God intended for a husband and wife. So I know that the pleasures in heaven will be much better than these. And of course I know that there will be much better music in heaven than mine.

03 Jesus Can Heal All Our Sorrows The last few years of my Dad's life he would often go through phases where he would stay awake for several days, then sleep for a long time. I would usually bring my guitar over because he loved to hear my music. I wrote this song one time when I came over and he was in one of his long sleeps. I was thinking about if the end of his life would be soon and I was thinking about my life and how many wonderful things I had missed out on because I didn't listen and obey what the Lord was telling me! "But, Jesus can heal all our sorrows."

04 The Hem Of His Garment Based on Matt 14:34-36 NKJV "When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret. And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who were sick, and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well."

05 My Strength And My Reward A simple little worship song

06 What A World This Would Be I was at a pastors prayer luncheon and there was a non-Messianic Jewish Rabbi sitting at our table. His prayers sounded a little different so I asked him about his beliefs. He said that there was a Jewish legend that he believed that God had made the world 70 times before and failed and that this was his 71st and he needed out help this time to succeed. So I tried to explain to him that He did not need our help but that we needed His help! How God could have made robots that would just automatically obey but that God wanted a people that would willingly follow Him. Just like we want sincere friends not just fair weather friends. He said, "So this is like a test" I said, "Kind of". I wrote this song on the way home.

06 Light Before The Dawn Instrumental

07Amazed A simple worship song giving God the Glory for His creation! Romans 1:20-23, Hebrews 1:10, Psalms 19:1, James 4:8

08 Dad A song about my Father Donald G. Ellingsen 1913-2012 When my Dad was about 95 years old, I came over to his house for breakfast after getting off work and he said to me, "It's hell gettin old Paul, but every day I get up I thank the Lord for another day." I thought, "That sounds like a country song if I ever heard one." So I wrote this song when he was 98 and decided to put it on this CD after he died at 99 in Dec 2012. The whole song is true, except he only said it to me once, not many times, and I'm not sure if you can see the northern lights from Peshtigo, WI.

09 Jesus Jesus One Sunday morning in 2003 I just needed one more song to complete the worship set I was planning for that morning, so I wrote this one. Thank you Lord!

10 Wisdom Based on Proverbs

Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord 2016
Cece and Me
Cece and I enjoy leading worship and used to lead worship at the Overflowing Cup Coffeehouse in Beloit WI. from 2012 through 2015 as well as several other places over the years. We would do old hymns, some of my original worship songs, praise songs from the 80’s and an occasional newer song. One of the reasons I like the songs from the 80’s is there is so much scripture in them. With this in mind 5 of these 12 songs are scripture put to music.

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01 Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord On Friday evenings we often play at a open mic at Etcera, a coffee shop in Paducah, KY. One evening, Gregory Tyler Taylor, a poet who often reads there, asked us if we could write a song about John the Baptist, so I wrote this one the next week.

02 A New Song (Rev 5:8-14)

03 The Kingdom Of Our God (Rev 12:10-12)

04 Bling As you probably know packaging sells the product. I used to work at a print shop that made a lot of very fancy packaging for things like cologne. I once said to someone at work, “I believe you could sell manure to people if you put it in a fancy enough box, if you could just keep the smell down a little.” Then after buying new computers for Cece and me that had Windows 8, I said to Cece, “Every time they come out with a new Windows it doesn’t seem to do the things I need it to do any better, it just has more bling.” So I wrote this song.

05 Be Anxious For Nothing (Phil 4:4-7, 4:17)

06 I've Got Jesus That's Enough Dave Fogdured, pastor of the Overflowing Cup Coffeehouse in Beloit, WI, said one Sunday, “I’ve got Jesus, that’s enough!” I went home and wrote this song the next week.

07 A Stroll Through The Park (Instrumental)
08 Better A Doorkeeper (Psalm 84:10,11)
09 Son's Of God (Rom 8:14-15 and Phil 2:9-11)
10 It Is You
11 Empty Things (I Sam 12:20-25, John 3:16, John 19:6, James 4:8)
12 I Want What You Want

My Gravestone 2020
Cece and Me

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I wrote this song as an answer to the song "When I'm Good and Gone" by Ricky Scaggs & Sharon White. So often I hear people say something like, "I want to be remembered for…" or "I want my tombstone to say…" But on that day I leave this earth the only thing that will matter will be What did Jesus think of my life? I hope it will be, "Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord." Matt 25:21
01 My Gravestone Matt 25:21

02 Come To The Water Is 55 Psalm 34:8

Fonda Duncklee, who lead our Sunday school class at the time, said the Lord told her, "We need to take a shower in the power"
03 A Shower In The Power

This song was written many years ago about a difficult time in my life.
04 Winter In Springtime

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Cor 5:17
05 Put The Past Behind You 2 Cor 5-17

(Matt 27:15-26, Mark 15:6-15, Lk13:13-25, Jn 18:39-40) There is a scene in "The Passion of the Christ" where Barabbas is on the platform with Jesus and Pilate. He takes one look at Jesus, beaten and bloody, and for a moment he gets a very serious look on his face, like he realizes what really happening, and then he goes back to acting like a madman again. That scene is what inspired this song. The Bible doesn't tell us what happened to Barabbas. Did he repent or did he go back to living a rebellious life? We don't know, but this song speculates that he repented.
Barabbas Matt 27-15-26

07 Ten CommandmentsEx 20-1-17

So often the response of an unbeliever to "Jesus is the only way to heaven" is, "That's awful narrow minded of you" This is my answer to that.
08 A Narrow Minded Jesus(John 14:6, 1st Timothy 2:5, Acts 4:12)

I was talking to my son, Andrew, and we were talking about how the older you get the faster the years go by, and he said, "Yea Dad, It's like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end the faster it goes" That sounded to me like it should be a song.
09 Toilet Paper (James 4:13-15)

Chris Clark, the pastor at Kentucky Lake Cowboy Church, had this Bible that was held together with duct tape. One morning Clay Campbell, the music director, said to Chris, "Ain't no duct tape gonna heal a broken heart. Clay said, "Hey that sounds like a country song" I agreed and made a note of it on my bulletin and later wrote this song.
10 Duct Tape

This song is also on "The Road" CD but since I get more requests for this song than any other, I figured I'd rerecord it for this CD
11 Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4)

12 Let Not The Wise Man Jer 9- 23-24

13 Eye Has Not Seen 1st Cor 2-9

14 Dessert Rev 13:16-17, 20:1-3

15 You Are Worthy Of Our PraiseRev 4:11 & 5:9

Scan-demic 2021

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I Will Not Take Your Shot
Only Ten Days to Flatten the Curve

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