The Sawdust Trail: A Red Dirt Half-Hour Hour

The Sawdust Trail: A Red Dirt Half-Hour Hour

The Sawdust Trail is where revival meets Red Dirt. Hosted by Pastor Jim Wilhelm, this podcast treats folk songs as sacred texts—walking stanza by stanza through outlaw hymns, Dust Bowl laments, and Red Dirt ballads like they’re scripture. Think revival tent pitched on an Oklahoma backroad: the Spirit is loose, the stories are true, and the music carries more theology than some seminary libraries. This is Theology in Three Chords—exegeting songs with the same care we give the Bible.

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September 7, 2025 13 mins

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On this week’s Theology in Three Chords episode of The Sawdust Trail, we walk verse by verse through Craig Morgan’s “That’s What I Love About Sunday.” From Raymond’s grease-stained hands to Miss Betty’s off-key alto, from chicken dinners to baptismal waters, the ordinary becomes holy when you sit ...

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Step into the tent and walk The Sawdust Trail—a revival ground where faith, memory, and mystery collide. In this Theology in Three Chords episode, Pastor Jim explores Tom Skinner’s song Sawdust Trail as more than music: it’s the namesake of this podcast and a living witness to revival ...

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HERE'S THE SONG. GO LISTEN. COME BACK HERE AND LISTEN. THEN GO BACK AND LISTEN AGAIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j0yt4p0w24Welcome to The Sawdust Trail, where revival meets Red Dirt and the hymnal only needs three chords. In this first episode, Pastor Jim exegetes Tom Skinner’s Like a Blind Man—line by line, stanza by stanza—as if it were scripture.

From the blind man in the middle of the road, to David with his sling, to Gran...

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