Bill Gaither

But Gloria Gaither also won songwriter of the century.

Bill and Gloria Gaither.

Gloria Gaither did.

And Dottie her mom she's the only child Dottie wrote for Elvis and Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston and but Reba has written for Debbie Boone and Donna Summer and Natalie Cole and along with all the gospel greats like her mom Dottie

My husband left me a note.

He came by a while ago, and he wants me to ask a question.

My husband heard of an older recording of your dad introducing, this is to Reba, a new version of Amazing Grace using House of the Rising Sun music on Bill Gaither's Enlightened.

Does that ring a bell with you? What?

So before we get started on Dr. Jeremiah and the Christian dress code, this is going to be a good one.

Let's get a little bit of a Bill Gaither to remind you that you're a sinner saved by grace.

So let's play this and then Dr. David Jeremiah and his lesson.

Happy Friday.

by grace.

Amen.

Bill Gaither.

I'm just a sinner saved by grace.

I love it.

I think Bill Gaither's dead now, but it was great while it lasted.

That's a sad ending to that story.

I

We're going to sing it through twice.

It's a simple chorus, a Bill Gaither chorus.

Not that old, but it's classic already.

You ready?

And the original concept was for our children, for our grandchildren, which then that became like the Deuteronomy 6 mandate.

Have you heard the background to that? That's kind of how the homecoming videos took place with Bill Gaither.

I have not heard that.

Yeah.

So it's a little more animated perhaps than what we experienced when we came to faith in Jesus, but the message is the same regardless, that when we experience Jesus, when we believe in His resurrection, We are filled with great joy, and our expectation is to not just eventually tell those around us, but to urgently tell those around us, next to us, our family members, our friends, our neighbors, our co-workers, our classmates, that Jesus is alive, and that the Jesus who has changed you can change them as well.

Yeah, I got to tell you, Dylan, when I was a young believer and I was 21 years old and the Lord got a hold of my life and songs about Bill Gaither.

I know everybody probably knows the Gaither songs, but I didn't know any of these songs back then.

And I was watching a Christian television show, and a guy got up to sing a song.

He came to serve, heal, and forgive.

He lived and died to buy my pardon.

Bill Gaither.

All right.

Oh.

Uh, Bill, it was about when you look at something of like a list of items, it'll tell you how-

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That's true.

Well, the other part of the problem, Bill, is I didn't care that it, that it, that it unloaded Quill, that it do- But it un- also wouldn't let me, w- wouldn't let me, it also unloaded my screen reading software.

So that, that's not acceptable at all.

And I've been through, I mean, it's so neat because I reached out to Joanne because I got to sing on her record.

And then I reached out to Dallas and my friend, Phillip Ahana from England and Benji Gaither, Bill Gaither's son, and put together a David Oskin Friends concert one time.

And they all were like, yeah, let's do it.

You know, let's, so it's, it, you know, the, the moments that I've had here in music being, you know, just this dude from Minnesota have been just outstanding.