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Hymn Talk Twin Talk
by Kerrie Fraser and Kellie Tropeano
Let's laugh and sing and learn all about hymns! Identical twins Kerrie and Kellie don't just share the same DNA. They share a real passion for and knowledge of church music and they want to share it all with you. Tune in and keep singing!
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97. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and joining us on the hymn journey surrounding this hymn treasure: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning. What a hymn! Thank you to Ashley for suggesting this one for the podcast. It really has it all... a great hymn story, a legendary hymn writer, and…
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96. Jesus Paid It All
This hymn has it all! The hymn writers have a great story, the tune is so pretty, it's full of Biblical truth, and people love it. We are so excited to share Episode 96 with you - Jesus Paid It All. What a hymn! Here are some of the things we talk about in this episode: Jesus Paid It All sheet...
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95. Hosanna, Loud Hosanna
"Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest." - Matthew 21:9 Most people know this famous passage in the New Testament when Jesus is welcomed into Jerusalem with shouts of praise and palm branches waving. The very first Palm Sunday about two thousand years ago is...
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94. In the Breaking of the Bread
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and THANK YOU for tuning in to Episode 94. We are so excited to be sharing this hymn with you. We pray that this episode will be a blessing, that eyes will be opened to the truth of who Jesus is. We are releasing this episode during the Lent Season,...
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93. All Creatures Of Our God And King
Happy New Year from Hymn Talk Twin Talk... a little late! Thank you for waiting and being patient for Episode 93. We are thrilled to be devoting this comeback episode to such an amazing hymn. This hymn spans centuries, nations, time periods, and denominations. We can't wait to tell you everything...
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92. LIVE Episode - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Hymn Talk Twin Talk is back with another LIVE episode. This episode was recorded on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at First Baptist Church in Reading, MA. Please reach out if you'd like Hymn Talk Twin Talk to come to your church or event. We can talk about any hymn that would fit your theme or sermon...
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91. LIVE Episode - Be Still My Soul
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk! We hope you like learning about Be Still My Soul and studying Jesus' words in Matthew 8:23-27. This podcast episode will be available as a VIDEO podcast on YouTube on Tuesday, November 14. Did you know we had a YouTube channel? Many of our episodes are...
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90. All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
Episode 90 is here and it is a BIG one! We're so excited to be sharing this hymn with you all. It's an old one, it's traditional, it has made its crossover to many church denominations. We're pretty sure everyone knows this one! This came as a request from a follower on Twitter (X). We really do...
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89. Farther Along
This wonderful gospel song is only published in 61 hymnals, but it has made its way into country, pop, rock, and right here on Hymn Talk Twin Talk. Farther Along came as a request from a loyal listener. She explained how comforting the song had been when she was going through a difficult time in...
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88. Abide With Me
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk. If this is your first time with us, we pray that our love of the Lord and our love of hymns will be evident. This episode was prepared especially for today, September 11, 2023, on this the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on our country. We…
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87. A New Name in Glory
This HEAVEN HYMN will be sure to make you smile. This song is just FULL of JOY and HOPE and PROMISE. We hope you'll be singing along! In this episode, we're talking about some HYMN TREASURES! The hymn writer behind A New Name in Glory is also the hymn writer of some much-loved hymns. Do you love...
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86. Peace, Be Still
When Jesus says these words in the New Testament commanding the winds and the waves to stop, the disciples on the boat were left in awe. We read the words today and are reminded of God's sovereignty that everything in Creation belongs to Him and He is in control. We absolutely loved diving into...
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85. Haven of Rest
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and tuning in to our EPIC milestone episode, #85 Haven of Rest. We got this request from a follower on Twitter months ago and we had no idea that it would send us on this hymn journey. We loved learning about the hymn writer Henry Lake Gilmour (doesn't he...
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84. Victory in Jesus
We have the VICTORY through Jesus Christ! And if that isn't clear enough, the hymn writer continues and says, "my Savior forever!". We hope you enjoy listening to this fun-filled episode as we take a close-up look at this much-loved gospel song. This episode has it all: a bunch of Musical Nerd...
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83. LIVE Episode Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk! We pray that this podcast episode will be a blessing to you and will inspire you to live like Jesus, love like Jesus, and bless like Jesus. This episode was recorded LIVE at the First Baptist Church in Reading, MA. Every once in a while, we get the...
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82. Father's Day Bonus Episode Faith of our Fathers
Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there! We love this day to celebrate our dad and our husbands. This bonus episode is a re-release of Episode 30. We sat down with our dad and talked about the hymn Faith of Our Fathers. Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk! Thank you for giving this...
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81. I Bind Unto Myself Today
Happy Trinity Sunday! This episode is all about the Trinity Sunday hymn, I Bind Unto Myself Today. Many Anglican/Episcopalian churches sing this hymn on Trinity Sunday, and many churches in Ireland sing it on St. Patrick's Day. It was a joy to research St. Patrick for this episode. His story is...
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80. O For a Thousand Tongues To Sing
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and celebrating this milestone with us - our 80th episode! We are just thrilled to be talking about this HYMN LEGEND this week: Charles Wesley. He wrote over 6,000 hymns, so we will definitely be hearing more from him on Hymn Talk Twin Talk. Please visit...
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79. The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and this unique hymn for Episode 79. Are you familiar with this one? Does your church sing it? Have you ever heard of it before? This came to us from a listener in England and we're wondering if churches outside of the UK sing it! We loved learning about...
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78. Lead, Kindly Light
Lead, Kindly Light - words by John Henry Newman and music by hymn legend John Bacchus Dykes. We hope that you enjoy learning about this hymn... we certainly did! We had many questions about the hymn before we started our research, and after the research, we had MORE questions! We thoroughly…
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77. What Wondrous Love Is This
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Easter to our entire Hymn Talk Twin Talk family! This episode is scheduled to drop the day AFTER Easter. It is a beautiful hymn all year round, but it really is so perfect for Holy Week. Did you sing it in your church this year? We pray that you will be able...
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76. LIVE episode - The hymns of Thomas Obadiah Chisholm
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk! We pray that this podcast episode will be a blessing to you and will inspire you to live like Jesus, love like Jesus, and bless like Jesus. This episode was recorded LIVE at the First Baptist Church in Reading, MA. Every once in a while, we get the...
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75. Jesus Loves Me
Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so! This simple hymn tells of the profound truth that Jesus loves each and every one of us and we KNOW this is true because the Bible tells us. We have just loved diving into this song and learning about the Warner sisters. We hope that you will...
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74. In the Sweet By and By
Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk! We are so excited to share Episode 74 with you. This hymn is full of joy, full of truth, and full of the hope that we have in Jesus. This is our temporary home and we have an eternity in the sweet by and by to look forward to! Hymn writer Sanford…
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73. LIVE episode - Angels From the Realms of Glory
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our Hymn Talk Twin Talk family to YOU! Thank you for finding this episode, we pray you will hear the Christmas story with NEW ears. The words are by a talented poet from Scotland named James Montgomery. Montgomery wanted to tell the whole Gospel story with...
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72. LIVE Episode - O Little Town of Bethlehem
Merry Christmas from our Hymn Talk Twin Talk family to all of you! Thank you for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk and listening to this episode. We pray that this hymn will be a blessing to you, may you hear the words with new ears today, may the truth of Jesus's birth be brought to life in a new,...
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71. What Child Is This?
It's ADVENT! We just LOVE this time of year! There are so many wonderful Advent and Christmas hymns, it's hard to pick the ones we want to feature on the show. To make it even harder, we only have one month to do them! We were thrilled when Shelleen Weaver suggested What Child Is This? for our...
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70. BONUS Thanksgiving Episode
Happy Thanksgiving to our Hymn Talk Twin Talk family all over the world! Wherever you are and whether or not you celebrate Thanksgiving, we pray that this episode will bring you much joy and inspire you to reflect on all of God's blessings. There is so much to be thankful for. God is so good to…
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69. Who Is On The Lord's Side?
This episode is all because of our two hymn-loving friends, Judy and Jill! Judy and Jill don't know each other, have never had a conversation, and live hundreds of miles apart, but united in Christ and in their love of hymns, they BOTH requested the hymn Who Is On The Lord's Side? If you would…
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68. At the Cross (Alas And Did My Savior Bleed)
This is a beautiful, powerful hymn that we are so excited to be diving into. We sang this as kids in our church and we can remember having so much fun with it. The tune is bouncy and peppy and just FUN to sing. Examining the hymn all these years later, so much of the meaning was lost on us as…
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67. O Worship the King
A hymn of the HIGHEST PRAISE! This hymn is so wonderful and glorious and grand, you might call it ineffable! This episode is just FULL of music and fun facts. We hope you learn a lot and laugh a lot with us. This episode is especially exciting because we get to see a HYMN MYSTERY get solved…
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66. Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
THANK YOU for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk. If you're interested in WATCHING this episode, please look for us on YouTube! This episode will be available on Tuesday, September 27. Episode 66 is a special episode! At the time of our recording, people all over the world were grieving Queen Elizabeth....
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65. Here I Am, Lord
EPISODE 65 is a SPECIAL one! We have Kellie's husband, Danny, joining us! He has picked the hymn and stays for the entire episode to chat about this modern song. Many people categorize this as a Catholic hymn, but it's so beautiful and so powerful that it really has crossed over to many other...
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64. What a Wonderful Savior
What a wonderful Savior! What a wonderful hymn! Are you familiar with this one? We do not have it in our hymnals and we've never sung it in church. It came highly recommended from a Twitter follower and now we LOVE it! It is a FULL hymn, acknowledging all that God has done for us, and then…
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63.LIVE episode - More About Jesus
This episode was recorded LIVE at the First Baptist Church in Reading, MA. Every once in a while we get the opportunity to present a Hymn Talk Twin Talk message during a worship service. We are grateful for these opportunities! You can hear our other LIVE episodes when we talked about I Heard the...
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62. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
The poetic language and pleasant melody make this hymn a favorite of so many people. In fact, we heard this as a request from several Hymn Talk Twin Talk listeners! We are so happy to be diving into Come Thou Fount this week and we are so thankful that we get to talk about it with Brittney…
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61. Take Time To Be Holy
Take Time To Be Holy! Written by two fascinating individuals, we hope you that this hymn stays with you for a while. Its text is a wonderful reminder to spend time with the Lord and its tune is lovely, peaceful, and pleasant. THANK YOU to Gary and Linda for bringing this hymn to us. If you'd like...
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60. Lord, For Tomorrow And Its Needs
THANK YOU for finding Hymn Talk Twin Talk. We hope you enjoy learning about this old hymn that made its way to America all the way from Liverpool. The words are by a Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier. She wrote this as a poem for her students while at the Training College of the Sisters of...
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59. How Can I Keep From Singing?
Knowing all that God has done for us, this question just rings so true.... How CAN we keep from singing? This hymn, also known by its first line, My Life Flows on in Endless Song, was written by a Baptist minister named Robert Lowry. Christian Author, Kara Hunt, brought this one to our attention...
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58. He Leadeth Me
He Leadeth Me O Blessed Thought.... and what a blessing it is to think about God taking us by the hand, leading us, and feeling His presence! This hymn came in as a request from our dear friend, Barbara. She remembers sitting in the church pew, sitting at her mom's side, hearing her sing this…
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57. Hymn Playlist from Seasons 3 & 4
Episode 57 is HERE! We were a little late with its release because of some technological difficulties, but we are so excited that it's finally ready. You have some AMAZING music to listen to in this episode! We've curated this playlist for you all from some of our favorite episodes, collaborating...
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56. BONUS Episode Interview on Faith, Hope, and Love Radio Show with Mal Pope
Here is a BONUS episode that we hope you will all enjoy. Instead of diving deep into one hymn this week, we are speaking with Mal Pope about hymns in general and our journey into podcasting. Mal Pope is the host of Faith, Hope, and Love, a radio show on Premier Christian Radio, based in the…
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55. Beneath the Cross of Jesus mini-episode
Happy Resurrection Day to our Hymn Talk Twin Talk family! We are so excited for you to hear this episode. How much do you know about this hymn and its author, Elizabeth Clephane? You will notice that this is a shorter episode than what we usually do. We actually presented this episode LIVE to our...
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54. O Sacred Head Now Wounded
O Sacred Head Now Wounded.... Originally a Latin poem from the 1200's, a tune was added, then translated to German, re-harmonized by a famous Baroque composer, and eventually translated to English... we finally see this poem in American hymnals after the year 1829. This hymn took quite the…
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53. Lead Me To Calvary
Do you have songs you sing every year during Lent? Do you have hymns that are only sung during Holy Week and not during any other times of the year? This hymn, commonly referred to as Lead Me to Calvary, but also known as King of My Life, I Crown Thee Now has been a Holy Week staple in our church...
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52. Faith Is The Victory
Taken right from the Bible, these words are powerful, encouraging, and TRUE! The poet, John Yates, had such a way with words that when our composer, Ira Sankey, read his poems, he immediately recruited him to write gospel songs for the tent meetings that he and Dwight Moody were running all over...
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51. The Little Brown Church
Welcome to Episode 51! We are so excited for you to hear this episode! We love getting requests from our listeners, especially when it gives us the opportunity to research a hymn that we really didn't know before! Do you sing The Little Brown Church in your church? Did you sing it growing up? Do...
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50. Great Is Thy Faithfulness
It's the big one! It's 50! We are celebrating this podcasting milestone with a SUPER SIZE episode with a special interview, TONS of music, and a spectacular HYMN CANDLE promotion. PLUS... an AMAZING HYMN! Great Is Thy Faithfulness is about 100 years old and STILL totally relevant for today.…
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49. Jesus, Lover of My Soul
We love getting requests from listeners and we are so thankful that Linda from Virginia brought this hymn to us. It's been awesome diving into another Charles Wesley hymn. Use our NEW hashtag - #hymnlegend - and let's get Charles Wesley trending! Do you know the hymn, Jesus, Lover Of My Soul?…
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48. Be Thou My Vision
What a way to start 2022! Our first episode of the new year is all about praying for wisdom, guidance, and strength, and promising to put God first in all things. Our friend Emily requested this hymn and we are so thankful we got to learn about it. From St. Patrick in the year 433 to the churches...
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Let's laugh and sing and learn all about hymns! Identical twins Kerrie and Kellie don't just share the same DNA. They share a real passion for and knowledge of church music and they want to share it all with you. Tune in and keep singing!
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