You've sung the words a hundred times. Do you still feel them?

Have you ever sung an old hymn - Amazing Grace, It Is Well, Rock of Ages - and realized, halfway through, that you stopped feeling the words a long time ago?

You're not alone. And the men and women who first wrote those lines would have understood - because each of them lived through a season when their own songs fell silent.

The night the candle went out.
The morning the diagnosis came.
The day the child did not come home.

And then, out of that very silence, they wrote the lines we still sing today.

Twenty-one stories. Twenty-one hymns. One unbroken voice.The Priceless Worth of Worship gathers the true accounts behind the greatest hymns of the English-speaking world:

• The slave-ship captain who became the author of Amazing Grace.
• The blind woman who wrote eight thousand hymns from the dark.
• The Anglican vicar finishing Abide with Me on the cliffs above Brixham, weeks from his own death.
• The Methodist preacher caught in a thunderstorm, sheltered in a cleft of rock - and the four lines on wet paper that became Rock of Ages.
• The dying schoolmistress who scrawled Take My Life and Let It Be on the carriage that had brought her home.
• The young scientist who poured his heart medicine out the window and decided to stand on a single sentence - Standing on the Promises.

Each chapter brings you inside the moment a hymn was born.The fracture. The prayer. The courage. The line that arrived.
And each closes on a lesson in worship to carry into your own trial.

If you have ever sung a hymn and wished you still felt it the way someone, once, must have felt it - this book was written for you.