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Announcement: Thursday is the New Tuesday!

TLDR: Weekly release day is moving from Tuesdays to Thursdays!

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Gregory:

Hey family! I've just got a quick announcement to make regarding the scheduling of the podcast. Frequency is not changing, but release day is moving from every Tuesday to every Thursday going forward. 


Gregory:

I've been thinking about making this change for awhile now, but a few things have forced my hand. Not only have I gotten sick from lots of crazy travel recently, but also a few days ago, while I was helping run a children's youth camp, I managed to simultaneously dislocate and fracture a finger on my dominant hand. That's slowed everything down in my life, but I'm working with a hand specialist to recover as quickly as possible. 


Gregory:

Don't worry though the show is not going anywhere. In fact, this new schedule will help me pump out even better episodes for you each and every week. Thank you so much for being a regular listener and for all of your encouraging support. Let's press on together for what God has for us holding nothing back from Him. See you Thursday.

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I was raised in a Christian home, and though my family isn’t perfect, the love of Christ was always put on display. My earliest memories involve being taught the wonderful things of God, and one day, I had to make a decision. I realized then as a child that God’s gift of salvation is not forced on people but instead must be accepted by faith or else rejected. For me? I put my faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and have never looked back.

That’s not to say that I’m only a Christian because I was raised to be—far from it. I’ve examined dozens of religions in search of truth and now believe that knowledge of our Creator and His purpose for our lives is revealed specifically through His Word. It is in this Word that we find that we are sinners and are therefore hopeless if left to our own devices, and it is in this Word that we find that He loves us in spite of our failures and thus reaches down to us in love, extending forgiveness to all who will accept Him! My life therefore isn’t about trying to earn my way into Heaven…I just want to please the One Who made me, loves me, gives me purpose, and cares for me each and every day: my Lord Jesus Christ. His merit is what I’m counting on to be in Heaven and see Him face to face one day.

Hymns and Gospel songs do not carry God’s stamp of perfection like the Bible does, but they nonetheless often express Biblical truth which has been proved in the hearts of agonizing or awe-struck believers. This intersection of faith, trial, God’s truth, and man’s meditations and praise inspired me to start this podcast. The incredible stories behind the hymns we sing will be lost to the sands of time if we do not willfully pick them up and cherish them. More importantly, the blessing of using these songs to meditate on God’s truths will be lost on us if we don’t seize the opportunity. Let us pursue the Lord together: to know Him above all, to draw close to Him, to rest in His goodness, to seek Him diligently, and to share His love with others! All for Jesus!