HymnTalk with Melody Kneezel

In this episode, I get super excited (as usual) as I talk about the meaning behind Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. We talk a lot about my favorite words from this one: "bind my wandering heart to thee," (any other #enneagram7 folks out there? Wanderers for life!) and "prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it, Seal it for thy courts above." God seals us into his grace, and we are free in that, not stuck. It's GREAT. And it moves me. Hope you'll take a listen!

Let me know if there are any hymns you'd love to hear about!

I'm so excited to launch my new podcast, HymnTalk with Melody Kneezel. I love thinking about the words to old hymns that I've sung a bazillion times and inherently know the words to, but haven't ever really thought about them before. It turns out that they are deeply rooted in Scripture and allow us to worship in a new, authentic way. And even though they are old, they directly relate to our lives today. 

In this episode, we talk about Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee, a hymn that uses an idea established by Beethoven in his 9th symphony, after he was completely deaf. How could Beethoven find ultimate joy, the subject of the hymn, after become completely deaf? How could a musician find joy without being able to hear? It totally floors me! Hope you'll take a listen!

What hymns do you want to hear about? Let me know!