This week we reminiscence of times past and the good old days and the comfort of the tried and true. Realizing the many good things passed down from our forefathers that are such blessings. We pull 2 old songs from the past that have a lot of history in our land. Old Time Religion and Will the Circle be Unbroken is our medley this week reminding us that the Gospel never changes and Heaven and family are forever.

Love Lifted Me" is a popular hymn written by James Rowe in 1912. The lyrics draw from the stories of Jesus and his disciples at sea from the book of Matthew. Rowe plays upon the idea of sinking in water to sinking in sin and that Jesus can lift us out of despair to salvation.

This week we are looking at an old Negro Spiritual that resounds the deep need we all have for the life God intended for us, eternal life. "Do Lord" is a song most of us learned in Sunday School. We also take you on a trip with is us this week we go on to Mackinac Island with the Lexington Community Seniors, a church group from Lexington, KY. Come and enjoy the trip.

Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast where we talk about the history of old time hymns and their authors. Today we are doing something a little different.

Our Podcast is in video and we’re taking you with us on a trip.

“I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” was made popular by the Billy Graham crusades and was always from the concept of altar calls and emotional pleading. It is a song celebrating the simplicity of conversion–simple and sincere. It stands as a monument to the international nature of the gospel, as well as a radical call to suffer and die with Jesus

We have another presentation of Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast for this week. “Sweet Hour of Prayer” text appears to come from William Walford, an obscure, blind lay preacher who served in the hamlet of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, in the mid-19th century. He owned a small trinket shop in the village.

We have another presentation of Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast for this week. The writer of “Standing on the Promises of God” is Russell Carter who was born November 18, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.

We have another presentation of Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast for this week. Today's song "Since Jesus Come Into My Heart” written by Rufus McDaniel. This song points out when Jesus comes into our heart, we become new creatures. It was written flowering the untimely death of his son.

We have another presentation of Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast for this week. The verses of the hymn “Oh How I Love Jesus” were written by a British minister named Frederick Whitfield in 1855. And he probably never heard the chorus that was later attached to it. The chorus is a 19th-century American folk song that was sung in many camp meetings at that time. Whitfield was born in 1829 in Shropshire, England and you're going to love this story.

It’s time for Preparing Our Hearts for Worship Podcast. This week we look at a hymn by Robert Lowry. He wrote this hymn as a reminder of what truly saves us from sin: "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus." Lowry wrote, "Nothing can for sin atone: nothing but the blood of Jesus." This hymn calls us to put our complete faith in Jesus for sanctification from sin and salvation from death. Let us rejoice in the gift of eternal life Jesus has given by His blood.

This famous hymn is the product of Ray Palmer a pastor. It is one of the most loved hymns produced by an American Christian. This song was written when he was so overwhelmed by all that he owed to the Lord. It was this expression of this debt that led to the words of this hymn. It was an expression of his convictions about faith. He wrote this as a poem not intending that it will be turned into a song. It is said that was so absorbed mentally in writing this song that he cried when he finished the final line. He copied the words into a book and used them frequently for meditation.