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Hope Rising
by Fee
Fee writes songs that are perfect for both congregational singing and driving in the car. This album it takes the listener on a journey of hope, redemption, and God-centered worship. It’s very rare to get a CD where every song grabs you. Add Hope Rising to that small exclusive list.
Chris Tomlin: Glory In The Highest
This fall, Chris Tomlin released a highly anticipated Christmas album! Recorded over two nights in Nashville, Tomlin gathered a community of worship leaders and artists to lend their voices to the special live recording. Featuring
familiar classics including "Angels We
Have Heard On High," and "O Holy
Night," and "Joy to the World," to which he wrote a new refrain, and four new sure to be long-time seasonal favorites, Chris desires people to experience these
familiar carols as songs of worship.
Rob Attaway: Something Beautiful
Something Beautiful is a killer debut album from worship leader Rob Attaway. Along with his band, Attaway led our students in worship at this year's CIY summer camp, helping thousands connect with God through his powerful lyrics and creative music. Check out his CD!
Tenth Avenue North
With their debut album, "Over And Underneath", Tenth Avenue North has created a solid composition of Worship Rock. An unlikely pop/rock hybrid of Mercy Me, Jars of Clay and the lighter side of Switchfoot has made Tenth Avenue North fit into this successful genre. It's definitely worth a listen!
All I Need Is Here
The Michael Gungor Band
All I Need Is Here represents the first fruits of this new season in Gungor's worship ministry, and a fine example of alternative worship music. This excellent album leads people to worship and to a deeper understanding of what worship is all about.
All To You
Lincoln Brewster
Lincoln Brewster...a gifted worship leader, guitar player and songwriter, revered as one of the best musicians in Christian music today - releases his 4th worship project - All To You. As the worship leader for Bayside Church in Sacramento, Lincoln forges forward with a live recording of songs that capture the heart and soul of the worship experience from the West Coast.
Austins Bridge
Country roots run deep when it comes to soulful singers Mike Kofoul, Justin Rivers, Jason Baird. Nashville based trio, Austins Bridge, has grown up with an embedded passion to sing and write and they are ready to share it with the world. Southern Gospel music with a modern country rock twist.
Beauty in the Broken
Starfield
Beauty In The Broken follows Starfield’s critically acclaimed debut release. Singer/ writer Tim Neufeld says of the new album, “The underlying theme of the CD is the idea of looking through the everyday and into the sacred... the idea that the sacred IS the reality, and not the earthly. It’s about us fitting into God’s reality and not the reverse.” The songs are the full range of the human response to this kind of grand theme: abandonment, surrender, apprehension, doubt, joy and more.
Glory Revealed: The Word of God in Worship
The idea behind the rootsy compilation album, "Glory Revealed," is to draw listeners into the Word, enabling them to find God's glory revealed in His Word. A tall but noble task in this frenetic day, but if warmth, well-crafted songs, and intelligent production have anything to do with it, “Glory Revealed” proves effective.
Kutless
Hearts of the Innocent
Kutless
Strong Tower
Learning to Lose
The Turning
Driving guitars, booming drums and a prison break open the first track of Learning to Lose, the debut modern rock CD from new RKT Music band The Turning. But the escape alluded to doesn’t involve running from any sort of illegal activity; rather, The Turning hopes to use its music to persuade all who will listen to break free of the insecurities, doubts, confusion and fears that hold them captive.
Our God Saves
Paul Baloche
Paul Baloche, one of the world¹s leading worship songwriters, adds to his growing list of top worship songs with his new release Our God Saves. Paul has been seeking to be more intentional about the theology and Gospel-centeredness of the songs he writes. It¹s evident from this project that he¹s succeeding. This is ne of the year¹s most interesting worship projects, for sure.
Passion: Everything Glorious
This album is the perfect blend of brand new songs from Tomlin, Crowder, Redman and Hall along with a few re-arranged hymns.
Passion’s Hymns Ancient & Modern
Worship melodies change with the times... but the lyrics remain the same. This musical offering is grounded with the desire to rally around songs of the faith - songs of the church. Passion's vibrant collection of hymns-made-new resurrects the need to offer our lives as living sacrifices in awe of God's unwavering love for us.
Tim Hughes
Holding Nothing Back
Holding Nothing Back is Tim Hughes' strongest batch of songs yet, a set that isn't afraid to be simultaneously rocking and worshipful.
Wherever You Are
Third Day
It's no secret that life's darkest moments often place us face-to-face with whatever, or wherever, we've placed our faith. That is the emotional climate listeners will find themselves in with Third Day's Wherever You Are, the band's eighth major release and a transparent and stark portrayal of where one finds the reason to carry on.