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Life Church Worship "Fully Devoted Live" Album Review

Discipleship and worship are intrinsically intertwined together. Without discipleship, on one hand, worship becomes weighted utterances without a whiff of gravitas. Discipleship without worship, on the other hand, is nothing more than mere legalism of humans striving to serve God without being carried by the glory of God's Spirit.
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** CLASSIC CHRISTIAN ALBUM ** Cindy Morgan “The Loving Kind” Album Review

The Loving Kind is by no means Cindy Morgan's most successful album. Her debut album Real Life garnered her 6 GMA Dove Awards. Neither is it, her most melodious album to date. In fact, some of the songs are a little quirky in terms of their melodic structures. If one has to choose, 2006's Postcards would be this reviewer's choice for her most melodiously supreme CD to date.
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Regina Belle “The Day Life Began” Album Review

The Day Life Began is not precisely a Gospel like her preceding two albums were. Neither is it a booty-shaking frivolous throwaway either. Like the woman in Proverbs 31, this is a treasury of wisdom about life, God, and living coming from a wizened woman who has seen the woes and weals of the entertainment business for the last three decades
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Newboys “God’s Not Dead: The Greatest Hits of the Newboys” Album Review

Though this album is touted as a "greatest hits" of the Newsboys, a few qualifiers are need.
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** CLASSIC CHRISTIAN ALBUM ** Plumb “Blink” Album Review

Children's albums often are niche records. They are often not made for mass appeal: some without children will often frown on children's albums as being mawkish; so sweet that it may lead to ear decay. Then there are others who feel like children's albums lack depth and dimension. In an effort to accommodate smaller minds, the lyrics often come across as caricature and contrived. Not so with Plumb's only children's effort.
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Urban Rescue “Wild Heart” EP Review

The music of Urban Rescue is somewhere between the foot stomping nu-folk sounds of their boss Rend Collective and the polished pop patina of Hillsong Young and Free. This means that on one hand, they are not so electronically driven with auto-voicing and metallic beeps that you can't even discern if it's the sound of the computer or a human. On the other hand, their band's titular is also indicative of their sound.
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Joy Enriquez “The Call” Album Review

Joy Enriquez has choices in her hands. Married to hip hop producer Rodney Jerkins who has Benn known to helm career records for Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and others, Enriquez could have easily ridden on the magic carpet towards stardom.
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Guy Penrod “Live: Hymns and Worship” Album Review

A record can be trash or a treasure: It all depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking to find a worship album with entirely familiar songs to function as your soundtrack for you to sing along with, "Live: Hymns and Worship Songs" is a treasured find.
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Shelly E. Johnson “Measureless” EP Review

Passion gets reincarnated with worship leader Shelly E. Johnson's new EP Measureless. One thing you can't fault Johnson on is the spry verve she invests into every note of this 5 track EP.
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** CLASSIC CHRISTIAN ALBUM ** Wayne Watson “The Way Home” Album Review

With fewer new releases coming out of the chute in January, it gives us licence to re-visit some of the classic Christian albums of yore. This time we return back to the year 1998. It was the year where piano-based pop was still commercially viable, albeit tethering towards its final years. Wayne Watson who has been known for his deft touches on the ivory keys of the piano was at his commercial peak.
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