50days
Centuries of worship

The songs the church sings, traced back into the Book

Public-domain hymns from centuries of Christian worship. Each one tells a true story. Each one resolves into the Scripture passages it was made from, sung.

Explore in the player 20 hymns · each a gateway into the Bible

The collection

Read the story. Hear the hymn. Drop into the Book.

It Is Well With My Soul Horatio Spafford · 1873 3 chapters Amazing Grace John Newton · 1779 4 chapters Be Thou My Vision Dallan Forgaill (translated by Mary Byrne) · 8th century (original); 1910 (English) 4 chapters Holy, Holy, Holy Reginald Heber · 1826 4 chapters When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Isaac Watts · 1707 4 chapters Rock of Ages Augustus Toplady · 1775 4 chapters A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Martin Luther (translated by Frederic H. Hedge) · 1529 3 chapters Joy to the World Isaac Watts · 1719 3 chapters O God Our Help in Ages Past Isaac Watts · 1708 1 chapters And Can It Be Charles Wesley · 1738 2 chapters O For a Thousand Tongues Charles Wesley · 1739 4 chapters Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Charles Wesley · 1739 4 chapters Blessed Assurance Fanny Crosby · 1873 2 chapters To God Be the Glory Fanny Crosby · 1875 3 chapters Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Robert Robinson · 1758 3 chapters How Firm a Foundation Unknown (commonly attributed to K in Rippon's Selection) · 1787 3 chapters Abide with Me Henry Francis Lyte · 1847 3 chapters Just As I Am Charlotte Elliott · 1835 4 chapters What a Friend We Have in Jesus Joseph Medlicott Scriven · 1855 2 chapters Nearer My God to Thee Sarah Flower Adams · 1841 2 chapters

These hymns span centuries. Some are 1,200 years old; some are 250. They come from different traditions, different struggles, different continents. But they share one thing: every one ends in Scripture.

That's the 50days way. The hymn was never the destination. It was the trailhead into the Book.