Hymn Stories

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Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care Apr 01, 2024

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IN THIS EPISODE: "Lord It Belongs Not to My Care" by Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

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?”

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

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Christ Leads Me Through No Darker Rooms Mar 26, 2024

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IN THIS EPISODE: "Christ Leads Me Through No Darker Rooms" by Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

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.

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

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Sing Lustily! Sing Modestly. Mar 25, 2024

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IN THIS EPISODE: Commanded to Sing and John Wesley's Rules for Methodist Singers

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.

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

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Crabbed and Black Tree of the Cross (Short) Mar 22, 2024

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The Sands of Time Are Sinking (Song) Mar 20, 2024

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The sands of time are sinking,
The dawn of heaven breaks;
The summer morn I've sighed for,
The fair, sweet morn awakes:
Dark, dark hath been the midnight,
But day-spring is at hand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In Emmanuel's land.

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.

The Sands of Time Are Sinking Mar 18, 2024

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"The Sands of Time Are Sinking" by Anne Ross Cousin (1824-1906) and Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)

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.

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"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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O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice Feb 26, 2024

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IN THIS EPISODE: "O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice" by Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)

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.”

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

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Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet Feb 19, 2024

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IN THIS EPISODE: "Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet" by William Cowper (1731-1800)

“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.”

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