Episode 1476: There is a Fountain

Today’s episode begins a special week of music and Scripture by returning to one of Christianity’s enduring hymns, William Cowper’s “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood.” It introduces Cowper, his struggles with depression, his friendship with “Amazing Grace” writer John Newton, and the biblical inspiration for his hymn in Zechariah 13:1. Cowper’s image of an ever-flowing fountain becomes a picture of Christ’s sacrifice as an inexhaustible source of forgiveness, cleansing, and redemption.

The centerpiece of the episode is “There Is a Fountain,” a contemporary reimagining of Cowper’s hymn. The song carries the original imagery into modern language, celebrating a grace deep enough for every sin and a Savior who welcomes the guilty and broken home. It moves from personal cleansing to confident testimony, declaring that Christ’s grace “still flows,” “still saves,” “still heals,” and “still frees,” before looking forward to the day when the redeemed will praise the Lamb forever.

The devotional reflection turns the song’s imagery toward our own lives. We all carry failures, regrets, and wounds that we cannot undo, but the gospel offers something greater than our guilt: the cleansing grace of Jesus. The episode concludes with the assurance that we do not have to make ourselves clean before coming to Christ because the fountain of His grace still flows and offers us forgiveness, restoration, and a new beginning.