A poor parishioner of Mr. Beddome was entrusted with the care of the gentleman’s horse during the meeting. As he waited, he found out the reason that the Londoner had come calling. He became so agitated that he brought the animal to Mr. Beddome’s door and said to no one in particular in a loud voice, “Robbers of churches are the worst sort of robbers!” 

Show Notes: 

• "Did Christ O'er Sinners Weep" by Mcferran
• "I Can Hear the Ocean from Hear" by Vens Adams

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There he knelt down and poured out his heart unto the Lord in prayer and praise. It pleased the Savior to hear him, and to grant him at once a renewed sense of his presence, deliverance from his fears, and a sweet assurance that, wherever his lot might be cast, the God of all consolation would still be with him.

Special thanks to Heath Walton for his work on setting this hymn to music and performing it. 

Show Notes: 

• "How Blest Thy Creature Is, O God" by William Cowper, performed by Heath Walton
• "Adagio" by Roo Walker
• "Lost in Thoughts" by AK
• "Two Acres" by Arend

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"I have never seen such tenderness, never such humble exercise of Christian love. Alas! How his spirit shames us all! I thank God that I have seen his tears, that I heard his prayers, his conversation with the afflicted mother, and his own private reflections upon it. It has made me love him more, and has given me a lesson of tenderness, in visiting the afflicted, that I trust will not be in vain.”

Show Notes: 

• "Fantasy in My Mind" by Alan Špiljak
• "Holy! Holy! Holy!" performed by Sophia Bush

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Early one Sunday, two young men snuck into the loft to spy on the widow. They wanted to satisfy their curiosity; and had hopes of jeering the old woman.

Show Notes: 

• "Before Time" by Waterway Music

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How did the young woman act during the storm? With simple modesty; she was patient but firm. She bore the storm that was without by the blessed peace that was within. She was still loving and more obedient than ever, except on this one point. She would not forsake Christ. Having tasted the better portion, she would not give it up. She went after Christ, denied herself, and took up her cross to follow Him; then came the trouble.

Show Notes: 

• "Beautiful Hope" by Ketsa
• "The Quest" by Arend
• "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken" by Bob Kauflan

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"I sat all the evening just looking at that hymn. I did not hear your prayer. I did not hear a word of your sermon. I do not know your text. I thought of nothing but that hymn; and I have been thinking of it ever since."

Show Notes: 

• Lake Marie II by Ian Aisling

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It is reported that Charles Wesley was sitting in his study one day when a little bird flew into his open window, it was being hunted by a hawk and the predator had almost overtaken his prey when the frightened bird escaped into Wesley’s study. The story goes that Charles watched this scene unfold, let the bird out once it was safe, took his pen, and wrote: “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly!”

Notes: 

• "Requiem" by Sarah Spring
• "Serenity" by Ilya Kuznetzov

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In spite of his life-long weakness and pains--the bitter persecution and cruel imprisonments, Baxter completed an astounding amount of work. Yet, when reminded on his deathbed of his good deeds for the glory of God and the good of the church, he replied: “I was but a pen in God’s hand, and what praise is due to a pen?” 

Show Notes: 

• "Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care" arranged and performed by Jon Yerby

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Part of what makes Richard Baxter’s hymns so powerful and worthy of our consideration is the fact that his hymns sprung not only from a heart that cherished Christ but were penned by a hand that kept steady on the plow.

Show Notes: 

• "Tenderness" by Monument Music
• "Before Us" by Cedric Vermue

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With all this talk about hymns, it's inevitable that each one of us will have to reckon with the reality of the quality of our singing.

Show Notes: 

• "A Beautiful Hope" by Ketsa
• "Perigean" by REW

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O Christ! He is the fountain,
The deep, sweet well of love!
The streams on earth I've tasted,
More deep I'll drink above:
There, to an ocean fulness,
His mercy doth expand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In Emmanuel's land.

Oh, I am my Beloved's,
And my Beloved's mine!
He brings a poor vile sinner
Into His "house of wine."
I stand upon His merit,
I know no other stand,
Not e'en where glory dwelleth
In Emmanuel's land.

The Bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear Bridegroom's face;
I will not gaze at glory,
But on my King of grace.
Not at the crown He giveth
But on His piercèd hand,
The Lamb is all the glory
Of Emmanuel's land.

Christ’s honeycombs drop honey and floods of consolation upon my soul; my chains are gold. Were my blackness and Christ’s beauty carded through other, His beauty and holiness would eat up my filthiness. The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

Show Notes: 

• "A Little Breeze" by Simon Folwar
• "The Wound Between Us" by Cory Alstad
• "I Can Hear the Ocean" by Vens Adams

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Jonathan Edwards wrote, “Be always greatly abased for your remaining sin, and never think that you lie low enough for it, but yet don’t be at all discouraged or disheartened by it; for though we are exceedingly sinful, yet we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, the preciousness of whose blood, and the merit of whose righteousness and the greatness of whose love and faithfulness does infinitely overtop the highest mountains of our sin.”

Show Notes: 

• "The Paths We Walk" by Aylex
• "Requiem" by Sarah Spring
• "O Happy Day" by Sophia Bush

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“My time and thoughts much engrossed today by an afflicting and critical dispensation at Orchard Side. I was sent for early this morning, and returned astonished and grieved. How mysterious are the ways of the Lord! How much seems now at stake! But while all is in His hands all is safe. Could hardly attend to anything else.”

Show Notes: 

• "Songs of Iceland" by Ben Mcelroy
• "That Was the Day" by Ben Mcelroy

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Show Notes: 

• "I Lay My Sins On Jesus" performed by ONU Orpheus Choir (1961)
• "A Beautiful Hope" by Ketsa
• "John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides" by John G. Paton

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Joseph set out to give the congregation an exposition of the Twenty-third Psalm. He emphasized the blessedness of being led by God—of the mere fact of His leadership—altogether apart from the way in which He leads us, and what He is leading us to.  After the meeting, he wrote a hymn that landed squarely on the phrase, “He leadeth me beside the still waters.” 

Show Notes: 

• "Hypotheticals" by AK
• "Miner's Dust" by Locran

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A peek into the production of a Hymns Stories episode. 

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Was there ever a time when you were laboring alongside fellow Christians to fulfill a task that the Lord laid out for you, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, you were left to complete the work alone? Have your spiritual comforts ever been eclipsed by the loss of a helper?

Show Notes: 

• "Piecing Back Together" by Lake Isabel
• "Abide With Me" performed by Sophia Isabel Bush

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Do you ever feel as though you are all alone? Christ has promised to be with his people until the end of the age. The hymn "Abide With Me" is a prayer to sing in times of deep sorrow, distress, or loneliness.   

Notes: 

• Sunrise at Mt Fuji by Avbe
• "Abide With Me" performed by St. Olaf Cantorei and Congregation 

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As the people remembered how they had been saved from cannibal horrors, one after another broke down in sobs over the bitter past from which the gospel had rescued them.

Show Notes: 

• "I Think It Is" by Ben Mcelroy
• "Whisps of Whorles" by Kevin Macleod

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Of all the hymns that have been crafted from Psalm 23, some say H. W. Baker’s is the most beautiful. It certainly was meaningful to him, especially the third verse. 

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William Cowper suffered greatly throughout his life and this hymn in particular has been a balm for others who have wrestled with the mysterious providence of God.

Show Notes:

• Letters of William Cowper
• "The Just and the Justifier" by John Piper
• "Float" by Tristan Barton 

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On the slope of the hill stood a cottage, where a mother sat at the bed of her sick child. From fear of endangering the life of her little one, she would not, in the cold September night, flee with it to the woods, as most of the other inhabitants had done. But now, when the firing and murdering began in the place, and the smoke of the burning houses came down from the hill into the valley, then the poor lone woman was fearful unto death.

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John Marrant recorded in his journal: "The next day as I preached to them again, the girl I have already mentioned rose up as I preached the word and cried out and declared to the congregation that her sorrow and sighing had fled away, and she had received that peace from God, which the tongue could not express."

Show Notes:

• "The Soft Morning Sun" by Ian Aisling
• "Hybrid" by Guile

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“It was written in the Manse of Innellan one summer evening of 1882. It was composed with extreme rapidity, and I felt myself rather in the position of one who was being dictated to than of an original artist. I was suffering from extreme mental distress, and the hymn was the fruit of pain.” 

Show Notes: 

• "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" by 20 Schemes 
• "Twighlight" by AK

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"In a word, that man so told the story of Christian and his travels, that my heart fell into a burning haste to be gone after him; nor could father or mother stay me! So I got from them, and am come thus far on my way."

Show Notes: 

• "Piecing Back Together" by Lake Isabel
• "Gypsy" by Augustine
• "He Who Would Valiant Be" by Wallingford Parish Church with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Does your heart ever melt within you? Do you dread what might happen? Is your heart weighed down with cares? One of the ways that we can set our minds on things above is to sing to the Lord. And, there are some hymns that provide special ministry to anxious hearts.</p>

Show Notes: 

• "Spring Morning" by Maarten Schellekens
• "Ta Da!" by Siddhartha Corsus 
• "Flying Away" by Alan Spiljack

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On May 11, 1685 a large crowd of spectators gathered on the bank of the tidal river called Bladnoch near Wigtown in Scotland. It was a Friday. The solemn assembly looked upon two women fastened to stakes in the muddy river bed, where the waters of Solway Firth would again make their appearance as low tide turned to high. 

Show Notes:

• "Requiem" by Enzalla
• "Bankruptcy" by AK

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O Thou, from whom all goodness flows,
I raise my soul to Thee;
In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
Dear Lord, remember me!

When in the solemn hour of death
I wait Thy just decree,
Be this the prayer of my last breath,
Dear Lord, remember me!

And when before Thy throne I stand,
And lift my soul to Thee,
Then, with the saints at Thy right hand,
Dear Lord, remember me!

Show Notes:

• "Beautiful Hope" by Keta
• "Stronger" by Alan Spiljak
• "Clouds" by Alan Spiljak

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I was following very far off, always doubting and fearing. I think I had come to Jesus with a trembling, hem-touching faith, but it was a coming the press, and behind, never seeing His face, or feeling sure that He loved me, though I was clear that I could not do without Him, and wanted to serve and follow Him. 

Show Notes: 

• "Light Blue by Alan Spiljack

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Joseph Hart described his life as an uneasy restless round of sinning and repenting, working and dreading. He languished in a deep conviction of the evil of his nature, the hardness of his heart, and the wickedness of his life. This all changed on Whitsunday 1757 when he attended a service at the Moravian Chapel in Fetterlane.

Notes: 

• "Sunrise at Mount" Fuji by Avbe
• "Our Goodnight" by Philip G. Anderson

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It was a time in England when laws against nonconformity to the state religion were enforced with bitterness. Young Watts was often carried in his mother’s arms to the town jail, where she visited his father, imprisoned for conscience’s sake.

Show Notes: 

• "Kapoho" by REW
• "Show Pity, Lord" by Naomi White

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Many years ago there lived a coal miner in Staffordshire, England. He and his wife had a dear little girl, the last of their five children. This daughter was the light of the coal miner’s eyes. Each night, after traipsing from the pit, she would meet him at the door of their little cottage and welcome him home.

Show Notes: 

• "A Quiet Harbor" by Moment Music
• "Hemel" by Sjors Mans

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Suddenly, there was a noise at the window. All eyes turned toward the sound, and they were shocked to see a black bird at the window sill, pecking the pane. Dobry knew exactly what it was, for this was an old friend. Several years before, Dobry’s grandfather had taken a raven out of the nest. The old man had tamed it, and then set it at liberty. Now it had returned.

Show Notes: 

• "Stars Above" by Alan Spiljack
• "Nimbus" by Braden Deal

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A reflection on how some hymns of old can draw us into deeper love for and devotion to our Lord. 

Show Notes: 

• "You Will Never Walk Alone" by Maciej Sadowski 

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Rowland Hill was called on to bear up under a great weight as he kept his hand to the plow. Consider what he wrote in his journal in regards to a meeting in which he preached: “There was such a noise with beating of pans, shovels, blowing of horns and ringing of bells, that I could scarce hear myself speak. Though we were pelted with much dirt, and eggs, I was enabled to preach out my sermon.” 

Show Notes:

• "Beautiful Hope" by Ketsa
• "Our Goodnight" by Philip G. Anderson
• "APPLETON" by William Boyce

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A dread crept into Ethel’s heart. “That’s not for me….It means the old-time martyrs." She tried to shake off the feeling. How could the dark path bring her nearer to God?

Show Notes: 

• "Nearer, My God, to Thee" performed by Sophia Bush
• "Requiem" by Sarah Spring
• "Sanctify" by Brock Hewitt

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In the year 1742, Charles Wesley wrote the hymn “Arise, My Soul, Arise.” This hymn has been an aid to souls since its publication. Christians will never tire of singing songs that remind us of our soul’s redemption by the Lamb that was slain. 

Show Notes: 

• "Arise, My Soul, Arise" sung at Capitol Hill Baptist Church
• "Beyond the Willow Tree" by Holly Jones
• "Clapotis Dominique" by Chaprentier

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It is a weapon of war in our daily battle against the schemes of the devil, the condemnings of our hearts, and the allurements of the world. John Snyder and Ryan Bush discuss the ways in which faithful hymns serve the believer as he seeks to walk in obedience to the King.

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The battle on the morrow went hard with the regiment to which these eight soldiers of the Cross and the Union belonged. Seven of them fell before the blazing discharge of shot and shell of the enemy. One survived to tell their story and deliver their final words their families. 

Show Notes: 

• "Perigean" by REW
• "Untold" by Noe Gonzalez

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I remember well that when I wrote the last line, “Oh, bear me safe above, A ransomed soul!” the thought that the whole work of redemption and salvation was involved in those words, and suggested the theme of eternal praises, and this brought me to a degree of emotion that brought abundant tears.

Show Notes: 

• "Our Goodnight" by Philip G. Anderson 

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Before dark, we rode out of town to the field where they say the shepherds saw the star. It is a fenced piece of ground with a cave in it (all the Holy Places are caves here), in which, strangely enough, they put the shepherds. The story is absurd, but somewhere in those fields we rode through the shepherds must have been.

Show Notes: 

• "O Little Town of Bethlehem" performed by Ulrika A. Rosén
• "O Little Town of Bethlehem" sung at Grace Community Church
• "Cello Suite No. 1" by Bach performed by Arend
• "Cloud Postcards" by Luis Alvarez

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Show Notes: 

• "Forgotten" by Alan Spiljak
• Congregational Singing by Grace Community Church

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It appears that Charitie Lees Smith’s hymn “Before the Throne of God” was especially meaningful to Spurgeon. He had an extraordinary ability to memorize hymns, and “Before the Throne of God” was one that he knew by heart.

Show Notes: 

• "Before the Throne of God Above" performed by Sophia Bush
• "Before the Throne of God Above" performed by Grace Community Church
• "Light of Day" by Tobias Voigt

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There's more to William Cowper than his hymn writing and bouts of depression. There's also more to "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood" than you've heard.  

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Show Notes: 

• "Sun" by Alan Spiljack

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When Cowper was 7-years-old, he was singled out as the target of the cruel and relentless designs of a 15-year-old boy at his school. It caused such dread in William’s heart that he was afraid to even lift his eyes upon his persecutor higher than his knees, and he knew him better by his shoe buckles than by any other part of his dress. 

Show Notes: 

• The story about John is found in "Bearing Fruit" by Diana Kleyn 
• "Weightlessness" by Daniel Birch
• "There is a Fountain" performed by Sophia Bush
• "There is a Fountain" performed by Grace Community Church
• "New Beginnings" by Arend
• "The True Christian's Love to the Unseen Christ" by Thomas Vincent

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Philip Doddridge was born in London on June 26, 1702. At his birth Philip showed so little sign of life that he was laid aside as dead. But one of the attendants, thinking she perceived some movement, or breath, cared for the feeble infant. Indeed, he was near death, but the tenderness of the woman and the decree of God made it impossible that his life would expire so soon after it was kindled.

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Once in 1873, while she was in Dorset, Elizabeth wrote to a friend, saying, “To love Christ more - this is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul. Down in the bowling alley, and out in the woods, and on my bed, and out driving, when I am happy and busy, and when I am sad and idle, the whisper keeps going up for more love, more love, more love!” 

Show Notes: 

• "More Love to Thee" performed by Sophia Bush
• "Our Goodnight" by Philip G. Anderson
• "Piano Meditation" by Seqouia Waterway Music
• Requiem" by Sarah Spring

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Show Notes: 

• "Hemel" by Sjors Mans

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Show Notes: 

• Scott Aniol's Article: https://religiousaffections.org/articles/hymnody/a-better-way-to-sing-be-thou-my-vision/
• "Hemel" by Sjors Mans

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As it's good to prepare your heart for the sermon, it's good to prepare your heart to sing on Sunday!  Learn the songs we are going to be singing, study the truth behind them, sing them with your family and friends, come to church excited to sing and proclaim these truths to your brothers and sisters in the faith. 

Show Notes: 

• "Edge of Silence" by Alan Spiljak

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At the age of 82, John Newton said, "My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner — and that Christ is a great Savior!"

Show Notes: 

• "Amazing Grace" performed by Grace Community Church
• "Amazing Grace" performed by Sophia Bush
• "Cello Suit No. 1" by Bach, performed by Arend
• "Fading Sun" by Marcus Heier

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When her doctors told Francis Ridley Havergal that she shouldn't expect to live much longer, she said, "Beautiful! If I am really going, it is too good to be true!"

Show Notes:

• "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds" performed by Sophia Bush
• "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds" performed by Grace Community Church
• "Light of Day" by Tobia Voigt
• "New Beginnings" by Arend

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In one of her last journal entries, Francis Ridley Havergal wrote, "The worst part of me is that I don’t in practice prove my love to Him. I don’t delight in much and long communion with Him. My hands and my head seem so full of other things, that my heart seems not free to serve him in fresh and vivid love.”

Show Notes: 

• "Take My Life" performed by Sophia Bush

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From her early childhood, Frances Ridley Havergal lived in dread that she would not be among God’s elect. Her fear continued until the year 1873.

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• "Take My Life" performed by Sophia Bush

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“I am myself more cut down than I thought I should be, but I hope not impatient. I do not forget that to have possessed her at all, and to have enjoyed the pleasure of looking at her, and caressing her, for six months, was God’s free gift, and still less do I forget that He who has taken her will at length, I hope, restore her to us.”

Show Notes: 

• "Metonic" by REW
• "Clouds" by Alan Spiljak

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"Apply what you will, besides the blood of Christ, and it will poison the sore. You will find that you can’t mortify sin truly if you have never seen Christ bleeding for you on the cross. Nothing can kill it but the beholding of Christ’s righteousness." —THOMAS WILCOX

Show Notes: 

• "Open Window" by Northwestern
• "Our Goodnight" by Philip G. Anderson
• "Fading Sun" by Marcus Heier
• "A Little Breeze" by Simon Folwar 
• "A Choice Drop of Honey" by Thomas Wilcox (https://freegracepress.com/products/a-choice-drop-of-honey-from-the-rock-of-christ)

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What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Show Notes: 

• "Clouds" by Luis Alva
• "North" by Roger Gabalda
• "New Day" by Alan Spiljak

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They were not dismayed in reflecting on the smallness of their means and abilities, and that they hardly knew their way to the heathen whose salvation they so ardently longed for, nor by the prospect of enduring hardships of every kind and even perhaps the loss of their lives in the attempt. Yet their love to their Savior and their fellow sinners for whom He shed His blood, far outweighed all these considerations. They went forth in the strength of their God and He has wrought wonders in their behalf.

Show Notes: 

• "Sanctify" by Brock Hewitt
• "Hemel" by Sjors Mans
• "Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness" by Grace Community Church
• "Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness" by The King's Daughters

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"Being then under great doubts, I cried unto the Lord very earnestly. The constant language of my heart was this: 'Lord, if I am right, keep me so; if I am not right, make me so. Lead me to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus.'"

Show Notes: 

• "Light of Day" by Tobias Voigt
• "Jesus, Cast a Look on Me" performed by Eddie Willis

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Two experiences in Lina’s life had a tremendous impact on her faith and, subsequently, her hymn-writing.

Show Notes: 

• Congregational Hymn from Grace Bible Church of Conway, AR. 

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For nearly 50 years Charles Wesley wrote hymns on the way from preaching point to preaching point all over England and Ireland offering to all “salvation through the blood of the Lamb.” 

Show Notes: 

• "The Quest" by Arend
• "Fading Sun" by Marcus Heier

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Show Notes: 

• "Only You" by Northwestern
• "The Lord Jehovah Reigns" from Classic Songs from the Hymnal
• "The Lord Jehovah Reigns" from Ride! Ride! directed by Peter Coe

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The story of Old Hundredth begins in the Swiss city of Geneva, where many of the residents have spoken French instead of German over the centuries. In 1536 John Calvin arrived there to help with the Reformation. He knew that one of the best ways to waken the hearts of the people was to get them singing songs of faith. But Calvin’s severity and zeal quickly gained the attention and disapproval of the rulers and the people. And before he could implement any of his plans, he was banished.

Show Notes: 

• "All People That on Earth Do Dwell" performed by Keith and Kristen Getty at Sing! Conference
• "Kapoho" by REW
• "A Little Breeze" by Simon Folwar

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At the beginning of creation the angels sang unto the Lord, at the new creation the angels and saints will sing unto the Lord in heaven, and saved souls are exhorted to sing unto the Lord from new birth to the grave. (Job 38:7; Revelation 5, 14; Psalm 149:1) So, sing! Pour out your heart before the Lord in melody and meter.

Show Notes:

• "Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy" by Sovereign Grace Music (https://sovereigngracemusic.org/)
• "Before the Throne of God Above" by Grace Community Church 
• "I Asked the Lord that I Might Grow" by Sovereign Grace Music (https://sovereigngracemusic.org/)

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In this hymn, Newton explains why we ought to praise Christ. The undergirding motivation is that Christ has washed us with his blood that we might come to God. Each stanza ends with some expression of that unfathomable glorious truth. 

Show Notes: 

• "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder" by Happy Hymnody (https://happyhymnody.wordpress.com/)
• "Cloud Postcards" by Sonder House

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A reflection and song from the Church and Family Life Conference held at Ridgecrest in Black Mountain, NC. 

Show Notes:

• "Piano Rounds" by Yeti Music
• Church and Family Life: https://churchandfamilylife.com/

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This hymn, while very popular for some time, has vanished from many modern hymnals. It is now considered a period piece by many. Not only are some of the geographical references outdated, but some see in it imperialism and racial overtones. I don’t. I see a burning heart for the glory of God among the nations. 

Show Notes: 

• "Paid Respects" by BP Moore
• "Missionary Hymn" by The Sturbridge Singers
• "Beyond the Willow Tree" by Holly Jones

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At a meeting of ministers held at Northhampton, Carey suggested as a topic for discussion, the duty of Christians to attempt the spread of the Gospel among the heathen. All of a sudden Mr. Ryland Senior sprang to his feet and exclaimed, “Young man, sit down! When God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your help or mine!” 

Show Notes: 

• "Swift and Beautiful" by David B. Calhoun
• "Edge of Silence" by Alan Spiljak
• "Day One" by Alan Spiljak

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“Into thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me. Assist me that with a firm mind, by the most powerful grace, I may undergo this most awful death, to which I am condemned for preaching Thy most holy gospel. Amen.”

Show Notes: 

• "Requiem" by Enzalla
• "Psalm 59" in the Genevan Psalter
• "Resolution" by Caleb Fincher

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He noticed the strange young man, and fastening his eyes on him, he said, “Young man, you look very miserable and you will always be miserable, in life, in death and in eternity, if you don’t obey the text.” Lifting his hands, raising his voice in true Primitive Methodist fervor, he shouted, “Young man, look to Jesus. Look and He will save you this moment. You have nothing to do but to look and live.” 

Show Notes: 

• "When Once I Mourned a Load of Sin" by Heath Walton https://bit.ly/3MyKUhi
• "North" by Roger Gabalda
• "The Wound Between Us" by Cory Alstad

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." —Jim Elliot

Show Notes: 

• "Under the Shadow of the Almighty" by Elizabeth Elliot
• "We Rest on Thee" by 20Schemes Music
• "Something Greater" by Caleb Fincher
• "Poco" by Roo Walker

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Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/59wKlnL0k1Y

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When I first read it to her, I had no sooner finished than she said very earnestly: ‘That is the very thing for me.’ At least ten times that day she asked me to repeat it, and every morning from that day until her death.

Show Notes: 

• "Edge of Silence" by Alan Spiljack
• "Light Blue" by Alan Spiljack
• "Just As I Am" by Sounds Like Reign (flute intro)
• "Adagio" by Roo Walker
• "Just As I Am" performed by Metropolitan Tabernacle

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Has the Lord ever used a hymn to bring you comfort in times of suffering, affliction, or tragedy? I found this moving account of how the hymn "Just As I Am" was a balm for affliction in the life of a humble, nameless family. 

Show Notes: 

• "Just As I Am" performed by Amanda Bush
• "Hemel" by Sjors Mans

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The next day the troubles of the night came back upon her with such force that she felt they must be met and conquered in the grace of God. She gathered up in her soul the grand certainties, not of her emotions, but of her salvation: her Lord, His power, His promise.

Show Notes: 

• "North" by Roger Gabalda
• "Just As I Am" by Charlotte Elliot; performed by Amanda Bush

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When the session came to examine the candidates, one of the elders asked a little girl of twelve years, whose name was Maggie, this question: ‘Maggie, what first interested your heart in the Savior?’

Show Notes: 

• "Come and Welcome" by Indelible Grace Music
• Theology for the People by William Swan Plumer
• "Dark Was the Night" by Blind Willie Johnson
• "Libeccio" by Dominique Charpentier

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Watts’ rendition of Psalm 90 continues to be a help to souls today as they sing unto the Lord. Many hymnals still include this song. It is in the common meter and has traditionally been sung to the tune ST ANNE. It was originally made up of nine stanzas. The BBC played this hymn across the radio waves of England World War II was officially declared. Later, it was sung at the funeral service of Winston Churchill. 

Show Notes: 

• "Hope is Alive" by Infraction
• "Early Spring" by Simon Folwar

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Turn full your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him… For “He is worthy” to have all there is to be had in the heart that He has died to win.

Show Notes: 

• "The Bride" an Algerian Folk Song
• "Blossoming" by Locran
• "Something Greater" by Caleb Fincher
• "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" by Kendra Logozar
• "Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" by Hope Church Bromley Borough

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The captain knew time was of the essence and ordered the crew to cast anchor. They did so, but it immediately broke. He ordered them to cast the second anchor. They obeyed the command, but it dragged. There was one more anchor left, and the captain ordered it cast.

Show Notes:

• "Lost in Thought" by AK

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• Addison Duncan
• Maria Drollinger
• Patience Medina

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The tune was sweet and simple, but that’s not what drew her in. The words riveted her attention, and she stood motionless. After a moment, a woman in the group noticed her and invited her to come in. 

Show Notes: 

• "Depth of Mercy" performed by Suzanne Smith (Miss Evans' performance)
• "Nadir" by REW
• "New Beginnings" by Arend

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The village chief grew angry at this sudden turn of events. He felt that the foreigner’s religion had no place among his people and he aimed to put a stop to it. So, he summoned all the families to the center of the village. Then, he singled out the family that first accepted Christ and told them to step forward. He said, “You have two choices: renounce Christianity or die.”  

Show Notes: 

• "New Beginnings" by Arend
• "Caravan" by Arend

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Show Notes: 

• "Take My Life and Let It Be" by Francis Ridley Havergal; performed by Amanda Bush
• "I Can Hear the Ocean" by Vens Adams
• "Doxology" performed by Westminster Chapel, London

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