About this episode

Bethany Wohrle discusses her journey of writing hope-filled music after the loss of her niece.

Bethany Wohrle has been with Bethel Music since she was 17 years old. Her voice is on All Hail King Jesus and Living Hope, songs with tens of millions of streams that have been sung in churches around the world. But when her niece Junie died unexpectedly at 18 months old in February 2023, Bethany nearly didn't show up to the Nashville writing camp she had scheduled for her debut solo album just weeks later. She went anyway, and what happened in those writing rooms was not what she expected. Grief, hope, and a God who is still good even when nothing makes sense: Bethany shares how the songs on her debut album Reason That I Sing, releasing July 10, were born not from a desire to process sadness but from a determination to write hope-filled music because she had seen too much of God's faithfulness to doubt Him now. She talks about the song So Close, written for her sister and brother-in-law as a declaration that God can bring dead things back to life, what it means to be a worship leader whose goal is to be as invisible as possible, and why walking through the hardest season of her life left her more on fire to lead people into worship than she has ever been. Highlights How her…

People in this episode

Guest: Bethany Wohrle

Topics covered

• grief
• hope
• worship
• music
• faithfulness
• loss

Keywords

• Bethany Wohrle
• grief
• hope
• worship leader
• Bethel Music
• album
• Nashville writing camp

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bethel Music

Books & works: All Hail King Jesus, Living Hope, Reason That I Sing

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