Traditional Hymns Compilation featuring: Malynda Zacharias | Drew Brown | Amanda Falk - 2006 Juno Award winner

For years the bridge has been a symbol of passage, joining one place to another. If you stand at a bridge and reflect for a moment on the number of people it’s carried over time, it doesn’t take long to realize that bridge has a story. And so it is with these songs. Whether it was William Ralph Featherstone who wrote “My Jesus I Love Thee” at 16 at after his conversion, or Horatio G. Spafford who penned the words to “It is Well with my Soul” after experiencing the death of his four daughters, there is a story and a life reflected behind each of these hymns we know and have come to love.

Some of these songs have been around since Medieval times. Others date back to the 1800s. Down through the ages we’ve sung of trials and celebrations and of experiencing God’s faithfulness. I try to imagine what it would be like to stand together--forefathers with descendants, voices raised…a simultaneous, collective celebration of a God who has never changed. Could I be imagining heaven? I thank God that He sent the ultimate bridge, Jesus--with a story of His own. Only He could bear all the burdens of humanity, and lead us to life everlasting. May we know Him ourselves---that we not depend on those who have gone before us, but find ourselves joining in their great chorus, and passing on a faith that’s as relevant to us as theirs was to them. “He is the same yesterday today and forever…” It is my prayer that you enjoy each one of these great historical songs. Perhaps a line or two will resonate with your own life story…

Track List:
I Surrender All
Jesus Loves Me
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Nothing but the Blood
My Jesus I Love Thee
'Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
In the Garden
How Great Thou Art