Hymn Stories

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  • Amazing Grace! (how sweet the sound)

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Amazing Grace (How Sweet the Sound)" by John Newton (1725-1807)

    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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    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    9 min
  • How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

    IN THIS EPISODE: "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds" by John Newton (1725-1807)

    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


    Find more helps at www.ryanbush.org

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    10 min
  • Take My Life and Let It Be (Pt. 2)

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Take My Life and Let It Be" by Francis Ridely Havergal (1836-1879)

    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


    Find more helps at www.ryanbush.org

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    6 min
  • Take My Life and Let It Be (Pt. 1)

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Take My Life and Let It Be" by Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879)

    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.

    Show Notes: 

    • "Take My Life" performed by Sophia Bush


    Find more helps at www.ryanbush.org.

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    4 min
  • Thou Art Gone to the Grave

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Thou Art Gone to the Grave" by Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

    “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


    Find more helps at www.ryanbush.org.

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    11 min
  • Let Party Names No More

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Let Party Names No More" by Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795)

    "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)


    For more helps visit www.ryanbush.org.

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    11 min
  • Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness (Pt. 2)

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness" by Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf (1700-1760), trans. by John Wesley (1703-1791)

    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


    For more helps visit www.ryanbush.org.

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    7 min
  • Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness (Pt. 1)

    IN THIS EPISODE: "Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness" by Nicolaus L. von Zinzendorf (1700-1760), trans. by John Wesley (1703-1791)

    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


    For more helps visit www.ryanbush.org.

    Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast Network.

    11 min

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A weekly podcast about how our songs of faith came to be and how they have encouraged, comforted, and strengthened believers. Hymn Stories is a part of the Media Gratiae Podcast network.

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