“Our Great Redeemer’s Praise” - A New Pan-Wesleyan Hymnal

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Transcript:

This is Andy Miller coming to you from the more to the story. Podcast in Ridgeland, Mississippi, on the campus of Wesley Biblical Seminary, and it does indeed look like we are live so

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Andy Miller III: all right. We are going, and I have with me. Dr. Jonathan Powers, who has is a reoccurring guest on this podcast.

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Andy Miller III: Last time we talked a little bit about Ufos and the and a handle, but today we're just going to concentrate on the hymn, Merry Christmas, everybody you can see. I'm in my festive gear the one day of the year where I wear it to the office, my ugly Christmas butter, which has come in handy through the years. It's a Star Wars

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stormtroopers with some candy cane. So there you go.

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Jonathan Powers: We just can't say out the Sci-fi.

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Andy Miller III: It's how it goes. You know it is I I I get just get draw is Sci-fi and rocky movies. I'm just always drawn back to him. I do. I think back.

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Andy Miller III: Have you seen the statue in Philadelphia? You know I have not. And I just did, Jonathan. You find some. Maybe you find interesting. I have educated my children, and we have gone through all the rocky movies, some fast forwarding and and the 2 creeds. Okay, yeah.

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Andy Miller III: nice. So I. Now, now we need to go. Take go to Philadelphia, climb the stairs, and after that we can do something else where we'll go by the statue, too. So that's awesome.

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Andy Miller III: All right, real quick. I want to let make sure they know this podcast is brought to you by Wesley Biblical Seminary, where we are developing trusted leaders for faithful churches. You still have time to audit classes, sign up for classes for our winter spring semester. We would love to get you engaged in this process, and you can find out more at Wbs.

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Andy Miller III: Edu. And secondly, I'm thinking to my friend Bill Roberts, who's helped support this podcast

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Andy Miller III: and those of you who might be interested in supporting. I'm hoping i'm gonna even have. I don't know how this is gonna go a donate button on the website, so maybe you go and be a sponsor. You don't have your name mentioned every time. But if you're interested and we're gonna come up with something where we might even have more to the story. Members who get special content be on the lookout for that, and also be on the lookout

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Andy Miller III: for a survey. Those of you on my email list. A survey is coming out where I will kind of like figure out who my audience is a little better, I think I know, but i'm looking forward to hearing more. So Bill Roberts is what somebody has helped me make this happen for a while.

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Andy Miller III: He's a financial planner. He does a great job from a Christian perspective. You can find out more about him at William H. Roberts. Com.

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Andy Miller III: Okay, we are live in Jonathan. I am so glad we are it. Maybe we can get to a place where I can see some questions that come up on Facebook if you're interested in this. But we talked last summer about the the coming hymnol.

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Andy Miller III: and what was about to come. That was like the first advent.

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Andy Miller III: Yeah, we have the Second Advent where it is truly come again. Our great Redeemers praise. Hey, man, man, way to go, Jonathan. When this came in the mail I was like a it was a early Christmas for me. Nice! Tell us what! What's it like to get this out finally.

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Jonathan Powers: Oh, gosh! It's been amazing and and just hearing

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Jonathan Powers: so many people talk about it, and and getting emails about it being used. You know anything from people saying we're we're using the hymns we're singing the hymns together to the liturgies in the back people saying like oh, it's been so wonderful to have these prayers, or the you, Chris Liturgy, You know we've used this a few times in in our church already, and and getting into that rhythm. We love it. It's it's so exciting, and so many people saying

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Jonathan Powers: both to to hold it all you're saying just to be able to hold it and say, I've heard about this thing, and it's so good to see it. But and look! We got blue and red.

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Jonathan Powers: and but you know a lot of people

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Jonathan Powers: have have just been so impressed by the content in it, saying, Wow! I did not expect there to be so many Wesley hymns, for instance. So my goodness! I was looking through it, and there's so many good Wesley hymns ones that either I hadn't seen in a handle for a long time, or i'd never seen in a hindle. This is awesome, or people

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Jonathan Powers: saying it was so neat to look through it, and to see some contemporary material as well as long historic material. You know the hymns that we love and are used to, but also hymns that date back to the earliest centuries. it people have really appreciated that. And and I think to to

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Andy Miller III: what are the the end like the the earliest hem and the latest hymn that's included in this handle.

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Jonathan Powers: Yeah, that's a great question. So the the earliest one, you know, in in in terms of him. We we have him from the second century, and so the one hundred's exact dating, you know. They didn't quite copyright things the same way back as we do now. So but the second century we can say, no. Yeah, it's just verifying it. I yeah, you know it. I don't know it's. I I guess their email didn't work as well to like. Send those things in quickly.

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Jonathan Powers: but yeah, so it I don't know it.

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Jonathan Powers: in some ways it depends on how you want to to to talk about them, you know, because we've got like metrical psalms. And so the Psalms themselves, of course, would be thousands of years old. though the tunes put to them, or you know, anywhere from a few 100 years old to

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Jonathan Powers: a few decades Old so in in one sense you could say you have it all the way from the the the Jewish Psalms up to you know. 2,019.

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Jonathan Powers: but if if you're talking to him outside of Biblical material, because we do have like canticles and stuff, too, that are taken from like the magnificent things like that. Luke

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Jonathan Powers: Mary's song, and Luke, you know

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Jonathan Powers: If if you're not counting those that come straight from the Bible, you know. Extra Biblical extra. It'll be cool songs, I would say. second century up to 2,019

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Jonathan Powers: the blessing. the Lord bless you, keep so that 1 one of the reasons we put that one in, and it's the last that Well, I shouldn't say it's the last time. It's the last time with music in it, if you, if you

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Andy Miller III: had a himal on you and so for those who don't have the him know yet when you get your him, know and follow along this podcast, and you will get your him. No, everybody should get it. And just saying to my friends who are coming on with us. Live now with Dr. Jonathan Powers, who's the general editor for the new Pan Wesley, and him know, published by seed bed called our Great Redeemers praise. So we're talking through some of the things that are involved that Sorry interrupt you, Johnson. No, you're great yeah, anytime. and I in fact, lied about the date. I apologize.

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Jonathan Powers: I I remembered incorrectly. It's chosen 20. So it's even newer. And that's that's actually meaningful. So part of the reason we put this in and put it at the very end. It's a beautiful song. It's Biblical. Of course you know that I mean, this comes from

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Jonathan Powers: the the the blessings, the Lord bless you to keep you in the numbers blessing there. The Lord bless you to keep you.

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Jonathan Powers: And yeah, so you can see it there tales and 20 part of the reason why, when put it in here, though, is because you know part of what a hymn is is a historic artifact. Even it. It says something about the culture system. About the time the songs, the songs that came out were important.

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Jonathan Powers: and for a lot of people this song was a very important song. During Lockdowns and Covid there were so many of those viral videos that were made of like people singing in their own homes, that they sent in a video. And then they pulled them all together and made this like choir out of everybody singing them.

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Jonathan Powers: and we just felt like that was such an important song during the lockdowns and Covid and that experience of Covid in 2,020, that we wanted to put it in here, and it's a great concluding song. It's it's a great blessing. It's called, of course called the blessing.

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Jonathan Powers: and just felt like that, and it's newer, but just felt it's so fitting to end this him the with. Now there's one more him. If you turn the page from there, there is one more. Him and just don't have music. It it's kind of a we call it a post script, and so the text is there. But the music isn't because we just thought it's this nice concluding

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Jonathan Powers: thought, you know. How can I keep from singing a great hymn attributed to Robert Lowry. how can I keep from saying, yeah, exactly. I love the him, and we just thought what a great way to, and you know, like the last song, is the blessing.

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Jonathan Powers: But then this post script to say, and here, as you know, a final thought as as this Himal wraps up and concludes at least the him section of it.

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Jonathan Powers: How can we keep from singing? You know my lo! My life flows on an endless song above alert earth's lamentation. I hear the suite, though far off him the hills and new creation. Through all the tumult and the strife. I hear the music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing? I'm just a great

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Andy Miller III: final thought. There, awesome. I love the structure of it all, too. And I one thing I saw some friends. I'll shout out to my friend Fred Manbezi, who's in the Philadelphia area I believe I know he's originally from Royal of Michigan, but he he was just. He got a hold of the hymn and was loving it.

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Andy Miller III: He's a you know part of. I was on the Advisory committee, and you can find my my name on a point 6 that font way at the very back, as I helped with some others from various traditions. This and part of why this is significant to me, is

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Andy Miller III: It's why I wanted to even have this emphasis here

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Andy Miller III: it will bring you back on is because it's identifying a pan. Wesley and tradition. Now i'm using that term more regularly now because it's describing. I think the totality of the groups that emerge from the eighteenth century revival of John and Charles Wesley.

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Andy Miller III: and then, and then the various groups and even movements from within that, and that could be as far as like the Holiness movement, which is, you know, my specific tradition and traditions connected to West Biblical Seminary and the Pentecostal movement, and even the other groups to their like, your Jonathan connected

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Andy Miller III: to the Anglican Church in North America. So like there there are there are these streams. But yet there's this group that's uniting us, and and I've been one. I've struggled now here i'm getting set in the psychologist couch something like struggle a little bit more lately with institutions like

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Andy Miller III: as you, as many of my friends are, part of the Global Methodist Church, and it's leadership, and it's emergence, and my prayers are with that group. Nevertheless, it's hard. It's hard to create institutions. Institutions fail us. Institutions can do a great good.

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Andy Miller III: but I've I've found myself leaning in to the network.

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Andy Miller III: Yeah, this hymn was meant for. Yeah, like you and I are in different denominations, and they're very different Sunday mornings, most likely. Nevertheless, like we are connected by a shared theology, and i'm so thankful that this hymn

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Andy Miller III: it represents this group. I mean, I I think, like you, what! What group of my part of I'm a. Whoever sings from this hem, though, that's

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Jonathan Powers: That's so good. That's one of the things that, like One of the statements that I've been saying about this hymn

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Jonathan Powers: is, you know, part of what a hymn does is it's it's a. It's a cannon, you know, just like we would say a canon of Scripture. These are the books of the Bible that make up God's Word authoritative word for us. and in a hymn, you know, we're I'm: i'm not trying to equate I him know what the Bible in any way.

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Jonathan Powers: Yeah. But yeah, just saying that that like

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Jonathan Powers: there, there's intentionality behind it. We had to carefully select the hymns and say, what goes in? What doesn't go in? And does it reflect our theology and our heritage? Well.

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Jonathan Powers: you know, and and and is it a good resource for us to know? What is it that we believe, as those that are descendants from the Wesley's, and that Wesley movement, or that original

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Jonathan Powers: Methodist movement, you know in in England, but that the the Wesley and revivals, and all that. And so the phrase that I've I've used is to say you, you can look this him or sorry not the same. But you look this hymn, and you can say, this is who we are as Wesleyan's.

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Jonathan Powers: This will give you an idea of who we are. Read through this. Look through it, you'll get a very good sense of who you are. Holiness, grace the work of Christ in us.

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Jonathan Powers: Christian perfection. all of this. You know it's it's in here. the the atoning work of Christ on the cross, and what that means for us. that is in here. So you get a good. So this is who we are, and this is who we are together because we are all, you know, the the the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Jonathan Powers: the call to action and ministry and missions, and into care and all truism. Yeah, I mean these say, I mean just to say, like our just use our 2 traditions in particular. and of course they're more than this, but we can say

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Jonathan Powers: primary emphasis. At least we say Salvation Army. Yes, there is a call to to action into caring for this world, and and a holiness that extends to everyone. Right? to all those that we interact with.

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Jonathan Powers: and we get that out of the Salvation Army in a beautiful way, and we need that in the Anglican tradition we get a a focus on the the work of grace, the means of grace. But you know the Sacraments in that. And so we can look at this and say there might be different emphasis in different ways between us. But

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Jonathan Powers: this is who we are, and this is, we are together because the Salvation Army is going to push us in certain ways. The Anglicans are going to push to certain ways the Wesleyans, the Church of God that you know all of that. It's good. It's wonderful.

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Andy Miller III: yeah, it's it's fascinating to like, Just see, like the the hymnal. It provides this cannon that helps define the movement, and I I don't think you could say, Well, let's go to

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Andy Miller III: Tom Od. And Systematic Theology. I mean that kind of unites us. Yeah, wow, I mean everybody. Everybody in that tradition might agree

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Andy Miller III: generically with biology there. But at the same time, not everybody in the tradition is going to read it, and and I almost don't want it. I mean, Well, yeah, I would want everybody to go read Tomo, read for Christmas. Pick it up, pick them up, but nevertheless it's connected to that. What we actually do this is yeah

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Andy Miller III: to action on a regular action in remembrance in theology, and it's not theology for theology's sake. Of course, what we're doing here as well, is recognizing that God has

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Andy Miller III: in space and time, and that we are called to remember his redemptive activity. So that's why this is so important. And then there's a particular way

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Andy Miller III: that that is accentuated in this tradition. So it's. It's a fascinating process. Now I want to just highlight the Salvation Army him kind of yeah, please. I I have a bookmark, and so, my no legger. Hopefully, he's going to copy this. Yeah, his version of William Booth. Him send the fire here.

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Andy Miller III: We also have that it really nice to have John Warson, who interesting enough

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Andy Miller III: the in in the Savage Army station. There's 2 people who it Often their names go together. Gallons and Larson, John Gowns and John Larson interesting enough. About 20 years after they wrote a bunch of songs

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Jonathan Powers: they both became international leaders in the establishment

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Andy Miller III: generals, and so They wrote musicals, and the musicals then became a part of the culture of the savage army, and then became a part of the worshipping culture. So his song their song, I should say, to be like Jesus is in here.

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Andy Miller III: Yeah, also we have Bill Heim song, all, of course, all that I am

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Andy Miller III: I I was glad to get I I didn't know that you guys would take this one, Jonathan, and it's kind of hard to note it, and on the

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Andy Miller III: strophically, my friends, and anybody who visits the savage army. You see the song You probably like the Savage Army zone, and it's. I'll go in the strength of the Lord. It's made its way in there as well.

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Andy Miller III: and then we have also Herbert Booze. Great song, Christ is all.

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Andy Miller III: And then here at the cross, the great Brahmall. Coles piece is the secret of thy presence.

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Andy Miller III: Albert Osborne. I'm going to stop there. But anyways I was. It was fun to see some of my friends get the him know.

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Andy Miller III: and as they're going through it they're like, oh, in the secret is in here they're they're excited about it. And I think I imagine that will be the case with other traditions as well.

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Jonathan Powers: Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I was just saying that that that that's part of the hope is that somebody could could take the signal and feel represented, you know. Say, like, oh, wow! We are represented here, you know, and and saying, like the the goal, is not to make it the Salvation Army handle, you know. So you know we're not trying to replace the Salvation Army Army. Him? No, and say.

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Jonathan Powers: you know yours is no good. Use this instead it by any means at all. But we're saying like, how do you help us? How do you help make this him the better? But also, how do we represent you to say this is our family, and we want, like your voice needs to be in here.

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Jonathan Powers: and that's why we wanted, You know, someone like you, Andy and and and others, you know, to give us that material to say if if you were to grab this hymn and start looking through and say like, oh, wow, yes, our voice Isn't here.

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Jonathan Powers: you know. then. yeah, this is such a huge help. And so we were just so appreciative to our advisory team. from, you know so many different denominations, Wesley and Heritage denominations

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Jonathan Powers: that helped do that, and and we've heard that you know a couple of times already from a few different people. like yourself saying, this is just wonderful to see.

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Andy Miller III: Now, one of the interesting things that happened is When I did my own research like I didn't want it to Just it was very tempting, Jonathan to make it my list of somebody Show me so, but I did a I did a little an independent survey myself, and checked in with some people, and when I did that a lot of people were saying.

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Andy Miller III: Well, I like all the savage army, ones, Andy, but make sure that you might not even laugh at this. Make sure, holy, holy, Holy is in there, or make sure how great thou art in. There are no and i'm I to remind some people, even for my own tradition. hey, friends.

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Jonathan Powers: that's actually not a salvation.

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Andy Miller III: and you had a process for evaluating that. And we talked about this last time. But just tell us like, because because there was like a core group of hymns that you included. Tell us about that.

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Jonathan Powers: So we started by doing a comparative index. we grabbed different hymns from the Major Western denominations just to, for instance, you know I won't name them all. But just, for instance.

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Jonathan Powers: like the Wesleyan hymn, all the Free Methodist timnel the

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Jonathan Powers: Nazarene, he'll the United Methodist Timel, the Salvation Army songbook, you know. So we we we got these

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Jonathan Powers: and indexed all of them put a spreadsheet together that showed

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Jonathan Powers: indexes for every single one of those side by side with each other. And then from there we just said what appears in all of them so like Who? Holy, holy, you know all of them.

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Jonathan Powers: Oh, 4,000 tungs to seeing all of them, you know things like that and so we so like. Those are non-negotiable like that just shows that across all the heritage wesleyan heritage movements

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Jonathan Powers: we all think these are import. They. You know these. This group is important because we've all put it in our hymn. So those that we started with that. And then we said, what appears in almost all the hymnals, you know, and in half the handles

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Jonathan Powers: and that gave us a good core to start with, and then to evaluate, you know, as as it kind of decreased like. Well, okay, so we don't see it in all 9 hymnals. We see it in 5 of them, you know, is that, you know. Let's look at those or some of those ones that we say. Okay, now, that would be a good one or something like I don't know we'll let's wait to hear from our consultants to see if those pop up your advisors

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Jonathan Powers: do those pop up. If not maybe the ones that we can let go. and then it was then you all just got to help us, you know, like if it was only in one or 2 hymn. We probably didn't include it unless it was like, you know. Say that this song only appeared in the Salvation Army hymn, but you told us. No, this is an important song, you know, in the secret. Let's say that you know but it's only in the one handle. We don't know if it's important or not. But you said no, that a lot of people said, that's important. Okay, we're putting it in that, you know. That's that's good to know. We want to put that

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Jonathan Powers: But other ones, too. That might not be you know, maybe specific to the Salvation Army. But just to say, okay, we saw these come up that, you know, some people said, or even a couple of 2 or 3 advisors said that we should pay attention to that if multiple people are saying it.

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Andy Miller III: That's great. This is like one of the things that happened. That's why I was a little worried about. I'll go in the strength to a lord, making it, making the cut, because it's a tough one to sing. But you guys found a way to get it in a good key, and to I mean you can't quite have a brass band accompanying it.

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Jonathan Powers: So you can order that. And because because there's so many, it's going to come in 2 volumes, so it's not too cumbersome. You can have volume, one volume, 2, and it'll be larger

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Jonathan Powers: and we use that like in our family. This would be. Look if you're looking for something for your family, you could be on the cutting edge this new. So go to. I probably just seed bed.com. I imagine it's one of the first things they would. Yeah, it is it's it's highlighted on seed bedcom. You can go to seed Bedcom C Bed actually made a website specifically for the handle. A full. It has resources, it has videos. It has explanations. It has lots of things.

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Andy Miller III: thankful for that, for you guys you can go check. Take a look at this. I just those of you who are watching live on Facebook. This will be on Youtube, and then an audio version also on my podcast channels. But I'll try and include links. I just put a link for the hymn for our great Redeemers praisecom

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Jonathan Powers: I I call him the seed Bet Andy. Yeah, right yeah, his his support and vision. And really, putting together the proposals for us to get this approved as a project at seed bed and everything like, just appreciate him so much for his his support and and and vision and leadership in this

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Jonathan Powers: and there were a number of him, he said, Well, i'll just. I'll do with my own harmonization. I do my own arrangement. It'll be a little bit different, you know. Maybe, but that wasn't already in public domain, and he was able to do that to some some hymns. And he did just beautiful beautiful work

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Jonathan Powers: for us, and so I mean so many other people I could and should mention. But just those names. just shows like it takes, you know, this isn't just like sitting down so like what he's do we want to use? Let's just name a bunch of him, and then we'll just kinda publish him. It's like. No, I mean this. It was a long process, and so

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Jonathan Powers: It has a movement to. It starts with doxology, cosmic doxology. Glory to God, and praise and love be ever ever given by saints below and states above the Church and earth, and heaven starts with that that tends to be the end of the him now. But it starts with that

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Jonathan Powers: and you have these emphasis that come out in that. So you have an emphasis on judgment and help. We. We've lost that a lot. Today you have an emphasis on death and and a judgment, but even just simply death and pilgrimage that come out of the eighteenth century we lost that with modern medicine, right like the W. Death is not. We're not facing it as much now. And there's not this sense of pilgrimage. in this life to get to the promised land that Christ is prepared for us. Right?

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Andy Miller III: So we don't need to seeing just about our problems right like of like what our situation is in our time we we should thank. Yeah, it looks like we have people who are writing him. They're addressing our concerns, but it might be helpful for us to remember the great tradition as a whole one of the things I've also found in my research. You mentioned. even just quoting 1,000 tongues is saying

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Andy Miller III: Yeah, so it's it's just a the light for me to even at this moment. Now, i'm not a attendee. It's always from me church, but still like this. This song is a part of my identity, like I just so thankful for

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Jonathan Powers: all 7 verses. Yeah. Make their way in here for future generations as well. Yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Jonathan. Thanks so much for your time. I know you're You're grading. And I'm: I'm trying to get professors at West to build a seminar and finish their grading a lot going on this time of year. But yeah, I encourage folks to go check this out and just my little announces for it. It'd be me a lot for us if you could share a link to this on Facebook

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Andy Miller III: Twitter. Youtube Links. If you're interested in in more stuff. This comes from more to the story. You can go to my website, Andy Miller, the third.com that's Andy Miller, I I I I have an email list, and I send people free resource. If you sign up for that email list. It's 5 steps to deeper teaching and preaching. I'm also offering

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Andy Miller III: all the way to December, thirty-first 50 off my study of Jude Contender, and if you use the code you can find out my social media. But if you use the code 2,023. You'll get 50 off for these 15 days. That's 6 weeks study that goes through those powerful 25 verses

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Jonathan Powers: challenging us to contend for the faith, Jonathan, you anything else you want to say before we go out? Yeah, I was to say that it the contender study is a great I mean, that is a fantastic study, and so important

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Jonathan Powers: for the church today. And so I yeah, just as you've been plugging the in the law Pl: plug your but it it really is, and and and very seriously, and and I think, even related to the heml these kinds of resources that

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Jonathan Powers: draw us into the faith once delivered for all the saints are so important. And.

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Jonathan Powers: we need to avail ourselves of those means of grace that God has left us in the church today. So thank you for your work on that. And You have a wonderful study, and I've heard others many others. really highly commend that study. and so I I would just echo.

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Andy Miller III: Well, thanks, Jonathan. I appreciate the extra commercial there. No, no, it's great to be. I'm going to be in Wilmore in a few weeks. But when I go to will more everybody leave because I go during during holidays, maybe we'll be able to bump into each other there. Thanks for checking this out, everybody. God bless you!

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Jonathan Powers: Yep, God bless.