/// For churches
Use them. Please.
Elias Reign wrote the words and the music of every song here, and owns the recordings. Permission comes straight from him. That means for these songs you need no CCLI licence, no fee, and there is nothing to report — not because anyone is cutting a corner, but because reporting exists to pay a rights holder who has already said yes.
Songs written for congregations sung by congregations. That is the whole hope.
The permission, in plain English
Any church, ministry or Christian charity may do all of the following, free of charge:
- ─Sing them in services, rehearsals and gatherings — in the room, on a livestream, or in a recording of the service.
- ─Print the words and the chords, for the congregation and for the band.
- ─Change them. Different key, different arrangement, cut a verse, swap the bridge. You know your room.
- ─Use the recordings in your own videos — announcements, testimony, welcome reels, recruitment, socials.
Please credit Elias Reign wherever it is practical — a line on the slide, a line in the video description, a line in the service sheet. That is the only thing asked in return, and the point of it is simply that someone might go and listen.
This covers ministry use even when money is involved: a ticketed carol service, a fundraising film, a paid conference your church is running. What it does not cover:
- ─Selling the songs or the recordings as music — releasing them, or putting them into something sold as a music product.
- ─Passing the rights on to anyone else, or granting permission on his behalf.
Permission is given freely and could be withdrawn with reasonable notice — but never backwards. Anything you have already made, or already put in a service, stays fine forever.
One thing to know first
Elias Reign is an AI-assisted project, and it is disclosed as one on every platform it publishes to. You are being told here, plainly, rather than being left to find out afterwards — because you would be putting this in front of your congregation, and that decision should be made with the facts on the table.
If that is a line your church would rather not cross, that is an entirely reasonable place to draw it, and no one here will think less of you for it.
Where to start
Seventy-six songs across six records. These four are the ones a congregation can actually sing:
Where the Light Begins
12 songs · 2024
The most straightforwardly congregational set. Start here.
Stand in the Fire
10 songs · 2025
Bigger, louder. Built for a full band.
The Prodigal Road
12 songs · 2025
Coming-home songs. Communion, response, altar moments.
Heaven Touches Earth
12 songs · 2025
A complete nativity set — twelve songs that run in order as a service.
STAY, the newest record, is a story album about a fictional worship songwriter losing his faith. It is worth hearing and it is not for congregational singing — said here so nobody picks it up by mistake.
If you are planning Christmas
Most churches choose their Christmas music in September. Heaven Touches Earth is a complete nativity set that runs in order — twelve songs told through the voices of Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper, the shepherds and the magi. It can carry a whole service, or you can take two songs out of it and leave the rest. Hear it here.
Chords and keys
A song a band cannot play is a song a church cannot sing, so this matters more than anything else on the page — and it is the one thing here that does not exist yet.
There are no chord charts. Said plainly rather than promised, because a promise with nobody behind it is worse than a gap. The recordings are the reference for now: the songs are simple and most of them sit under four chords, and a musical director who knows the room will get further with the audio than with a chart written by someone who has never heard your band.
One ask
If you use one, say so. Not for a report and not for a licence — there is genuinely no paperwork. It is just that a song being sung somewhere is the only thing here worth knowing about, and there is currently no way to find out.
Message @eliasreignmusicAsk whether something is allowed, or just say a song got sung. Nothing here is a trick and nobody is going to invoice you — but be aware this inbox is checked by hand and not often, so a reply may take a while.