Jonathan Powers: placeholder for this particular him know. Words from the Cross-V. - Words from the Cross-VI. Jonathan Powers: or some of Charles wesley's you know. Our Great Redeemer's Praise is now shipping. Jonathan Powers: Excuse me, you can look up resurrection or look up Easter and find some good hymns or good songs that relate to Easter, of course, so that we have it laid out with the apostles creed. Jonathan Powers: And so, like the 1930 3239 I can remember, but that hymnal did not do it there's like one or two others that did not start with that, but every other methods 10 though I started with oh 4000 tongues saying and we said there's no question we're doing the same. Our great redeemer's praise hymnal review. Jonathan Powers: I believe in the resurrection of the dead, you know, so I actually go to that, and so there you go it's about resurrection or he rose from you know, on the third day he rose again look at that section and you got it so. Jonathan Powers: So we made some quick editorial decisions on our own even early on, but hearing back from the consultants from different traditions was so helpful, oh no, this is a song we we just love and we sing all the time we've got to keep um but not just from certain I mean it kind of it's it's. Hosanna Loud Hosanna.
Jonathan Powers: yeah there are goodness, there are so many. Our Great Redeemer's Praise, published by Seedbed, will soon be available to churches everywhere. Andy Miller III: From seed bed. It is a common adage that what people sing will become what that people believe. Who Is on the Lords Side. Jonathan Powers: yeah so it can be a good devotion book, you can work through it it's laid out in a very intentional way. Jonathan Powers: yeah so I mean it really was an effort to make it pan wesleyan, as you said, like really embodying the wesleyan denominations wrestling traditions um. Our Great Redeemer's Praise: New Hymnal. This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made. Jonathan Powers: And the ways that we pray to God and ways that we sing about God there's there's there's a cannon there um there's a you know part of the the hymnal as well, is it. Andy Miller III: Right there's something to like putting that out there, I love I love the title of it too and, and this is coming to at a great moment. Jonathan Powers: Be if I don't get that chance or or whatever you know, even despite that, like, even if I did have that chance. Give Me the Faith Which Can Remove. Andy Miller III: In our worship planning and i'm curious like asked you that kind of as a worship, Professor side learn how your how you're training.
Jonathan Powers: yeah or whatever it's just not relatable or accessible, and so we found a different tune that would fit you know, use the metrical index and found this meter matches that meter so we can just use this. Jonathan Powers: and hopefully more people would sing it, you know because i'd say Oh, we know that tune, these are great words let's sing it. Jonathan Powers: we're saying we're going all the way back to the second century, but also going back to just a couple years ago and so. Andy Miller III: At a camp meeting, but I would love to hear some of those ones that worked that you. A Look at the New Hymnal ”Our Great Redeemer’s Praise” with Jonathan Powers | Holy Conversations: The WCA Podcast. Promotional tools for a local church sponsorship campaign are available here. Let Us Break Bread Together-lead. Glory Be to God on High.
Jonathan Powers: But salvation to the fullest here and now, as the Holy Spirit works in our lives and perfecting us and bring us to Christian perfection. Andy Miller III: it's been great to have you on here and we'll post links, when the time comes to share. Jonathan Powers: there's things like CC Li that are out there song select those websites that you can go to and pull those chord charts. Jonathan Powers: yeah I um, so this is gonna get really weird really quick that's what. Our great redeemer's praise hymnal song. Jonathan Powers: sermon or she's preparing a sermon. Jonathan Powers: So there were some of those things that that we just said, you know we can we can toss those um. Nearer My God to Thee. Andy Miller III: yeah so it's interesting that guys you work through that this getting to these traditions which I would like to hear what you heard.
The King of Love My Shepherd Is. Come Let Us Rise with Christ Our Head. Jonathan Powers: And i'd say theology changes over time, but at that time they might have had. Jonathan Powers: is a big part of this so it's not a limited atonement. Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose. Jonathan Powers: You can see all the lyrics there at once and work through them and read through them it's it's a good thing to hand down so again say here's our doctrine our theology things that were very specifically chosen to teach us about the try and guide to teach us about. Our great redeemer's praise hymnal 2020. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Jonathan Powers: Like we'll do what we know we don't we like here's a new song i've been wanting to do, or whatever there's not a lot of intentional thought through it, so what I do to kind of correct that and to help people and i'll relate this to the hymnal. Andy Miller III: Like those songs that can really be powerful for the greater Christian world and sometimes in our own circles sociologically it's easy to kind of plant, the hatches down there is fruit to share. To learn more to visit: Jonathan Powers: How that comes together, and so I think of that and I also think of you know CS Lewis and jr Tolkien are it's fascinating and the worlds that they create so you take CS Lewis has you know most popular world is narnia. 00 per hymnal up-charge on non-case quantities.
Julie: If there was ever a time that the church needed to be fortified to know who we are as God's people, and who God is in our midst, it is now. Andy Miller III: right but it but, nevertheless, like I think there's something to that now I here's my ufo story. Jonathan Powers: here's the core group, and then we said is anything in this group that you don't think needs to be. Jonathan Powers: a thing of the past, you know we know it's actually important um and when I draw those similarities to say you know the the Bible, we see the Bible, we have a tangible. Father Whose Everlasting Love. Jonathan Powers: yeah we we work through that we talked to that and weren't sure exactly what we wanted to do at first and even considered we put chords in just for those songs. Jonathan Powers: You can you can get into. Let Earth and Heaven Combine. In Shady Green Pastures. O the Depth of Love Divine.
My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread through all the earth abroad, The honors of Thy name. Give to Our God Immortal Praise. Jonathan Powers: Very fascinated by ufo ufo reports. Andy Miller III: Like you have your own preferences that come to so. Andy Miller III: Western denomination seemingly, and so I know know that tradition fairly well but i'm excited to see what will come in, otherwise and how that can enrich. Lord Jesus Think on Me.
Lord Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing. The Life Everlasting. My Hope Is in the Lord. Jonathan Powers: um but that's always been there that's i've always had that love for it and have done a lot of writing and just continual research on lyrical theology, and how music plays into that you know how does music in lyric how do these things work together. Jonathan Powers: Well, if you're Okay, excuse me i'm i'm going to take a step just a sidestep for a moment and share how we came up.
Jonathan Powers: got in touch with Lester Ruth who was. Sweet Hour of Prayer. Andy Miller III: Through all I believe in the Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins there's no it's like why it was such an interesting organizational. Jonathan Powers: Can we accept some of this in light of our Christian views in our theology is there some things that have to be rejected, how would we what what does it where's it push us to to think about you know, like I said, would you baptize an extraterrestrial. A fourth-century text could be side-by-side with a modern hymn written by Hillsong or the Gettys. Blest Be the Tie That Binds. Jonathan: This hymnal is for all Christians who testify to the great love of God, know the amazing grace of Jesus Christ, and enjoy the wondrous fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
The King Shall Come-lead. Happy the Home When God Is There. Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord. Andy Miller III: it's a deep answer I like it, because it's a I hadn't had a neighbor and I he listens to the podcast and he might Larry and he would he he wasn't a Christian didn't believe in God, but he did believe in ghosts.