Todd’s Performance on Bridges Airs This Week

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SEVEN-TIME DOVE AWARD NOMINEE TODD AGNEW TO APPEAR ON TV’S ‘BRIDGES’

Chart-Topping Singer/Songwriter & Worship Leader Performs Songs from His New CD, From Grace to Glory: The Music of Todd Agnew

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (October 24, 2017) – Chart-topping, seven-time Dove Award-nominated singer, songwriter and worship leader Todd Agnew was in Nashville recently, taping an episode of the Christian Television Network’s (CTN) popular lifestyle magazine show, Bridges, with host Monica Schmelter. During the show, Agnew performed the songs, “Glory to Our Great Redeemer” and “Grace Like Rain” from his new album, From Grace to Glory: The Music of Todd Agnew.

The episode featuring Agnew is scheduled to air on Thursday, October 26, at 9:30 a.m. and again that evening at 8:30 p.m. CST. Bridges is broadcast on CTN affiliate WHTN-TV in the Middle Tennessee region, where the show can be viewed via Charter on Channel 10, Comcast on Channels 21 and 1021, and local antenna on Channel 39. It can also be viewed on Dish on Channel 39, and online via ctntv.org/livestream at the days and times listed above.

“I’ve been a Todd Agnew fan for many years,” says Schmelter. “It was incredible to meet him and hear his heart on worship. I know our viewers will be excited to hear Todd’s latest project, From Grace to Glory.”

“It was a joy to be able to share my heart and my music with Monica and the staff and crew of Bridges,” says Agnew. “I appreciate their boldness and willingness to dig into difficult issues. It’s really conducive for encouraging conversations about faith.”

A steady buzz has been surrounding Agnew’s new project since the release of the first single, “Glory to Our Great Redeemer.” Called a “spine tingling new hymn” by UK publication CrossRhythms, the single has gained traction at Christian Soft A/C and INSP radio formats, recently showing up as one of the Most Added songs on Billboard’s Christian Soft A/C chart, and landing in the Top Ten on both the Christian Music Weekly’s (CMW) Worship and INSP charts. Another song from the new project, “When Love Comes to Town” (Agnew’s U2 Cover from the benefit album, In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa) recently landed in the Top Ten on the CMW Country Chart.\

Agnew’s studies at Dallas Theological Seminary (where he is nearing completion of his Masters degree) led him to pen “Glory to Our Great Redeemer.” The song reflects Agnew’s deepening spiritual, theological, and musical maturity through the process of getting married, embracing fatherhood, moving to Texas and delving deeper into the formal study of God’s Word at seminary.

“The song talks about ransom, redemption, adoption and more,” Agnew explains. “Our worship grows deeper as we understand more fully all God has done on our behalf.”

 

Book Todd Agnew in 2017 and Save!

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To support the release of Todd’s new CD, “From Grace to Glory,” Ardent Records will underwrite Todd’s travel to the following ten markets for concerts performed before the end of 2017: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, and Tulsa.

Scott Huie of H2O Artist Agency and Todd Agnew

Contact Scott Huie at H20 Artist Agency to schedule Todd for a concert or speaking event by phone at 615-454-3635 or by email at booking@h2oaa.com.

Bible Study for Glory to our Great Redeemer

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BIBLE STUDY FOR “GLORY TO OUR GREAT REDEEMER”

“But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

– Romans 2:5

 

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

– Romans 3:23-26

 

When you write a song, oftentimes you have good people around you who chime in with thoughts you haven’t thought and points of view you haven’t viewed. Considering “Glory to our Great Redeemer” was supposed to be a congregational worship song, a few of the original lyrics were absolutely unsingable. So, I am grateful to my friends for pointing this out. However, one friend also asked if I was sure I wanted to sing about God’s wrath, especially in the chorus. You see, the third line of the chorus says, “The wrath of God poured out and satisfied.” The wrath of God is not a popular worship theme. You can probably count all the wrath of God songs in the CCLI Top 100 on one hand. Shocking, right?

Now, please don’t assume that I am criticizing the songs in our worship catalog because they don’t address the wrath of God much. I’m not. I haven’t written any of those songs either. And plus, I know a lot of those writers and I can trust that they are writing about what God wants them to be writing about. But this time, it was an issue I could not steer away from. It is too valuable in our consideration of our redemption in Christ. It is too valuable for me personally.

“For all have sinned….” This is one of the first verses I learned as a kid, and I have never doubted it. One look at the world around me or one look in the mirror was enough to convince me. So it wasn’t hard for me to believe that I needed to be justified by his grace. But where does wrath come in?

God is righteous and holy. Sin is a direct offense against his righteousness and holiness. So God actually cannot hold back his wrath for our sin and still be just, still be holy. For God to overlook sin would require a change in his character. It would require for him not to be holy or righteous. So God’s perfect and right response to sin is wrath.

However, in his mercy, God chose not only to expend his wrath but also to receive it. I heard this word “propitiation” many times growing up. But I didn’t understand it until later. One explanation is that a propitiation is something that stands in the way, specifically of wrath. A theological definition is an appeasement of wrath by sacrifice. God chose to appease his own wrath by the sacrifice of his own and only son, Jesus. Jesus stood in the way of God’s wrath. It was wrath I deserved for my sins. In this way, God was both just in his wrath and the justifier by taking wrath I deserved, making it possible for me to be justified.

            A couple of years ago, I heard a preacher say, “Some of you feel like God is angry at you because of your sins.” And of course, I agreed with him. Why wouldn’t God be angry? I was mad about my sins. My parents were mad about my sins. So God must be mad about my sin. But as we’ve seen, that’s not really how it works. Fortunately the preacher continued, “God is not angry at you. He poured out all his wrath on his son at the cross and there is none left over for you.” I wanted to disagree with him. It didn’t sound right or fair. But I knew he was correct. Jesus did not die on the cross to take some of God’s wrath while God saved a little parcel for me and my mistakes in 2017. No, Elvina Hall said it right when she wrote “Jesus Paid It All.”

So, you see I had to write about wrath. Because the fact that Jesus received wrath that I deserve is good news. It is the gospel. It allows me to have resurrected life and a relationship with the father. It is one of many reasons we sing, “Glory to our Great Redeemer.”