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Jon Micah Sumrall “Faith and Family” Album Review

Jon Micah Sumrall's "Faith and Family" finds its zip code in Smallsville USA. By letting his aggressive electric guitars enjoy a well-deserved recess, the front man of Christian rock band Kutless has taken the back road home to one of his more introspective and mellow collections. Unlike the Kutless outputs, "Faith and Family," as the titular advocates, is a personal collection of songs Sumrall has amassed over the years.
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Darin and Brooke Aldridge “Snapshots” Album Review

Bluegrass music often fall into a grave trapping. In an effort to get every piece of string on every instrument to be shimmering in lightning paced speed, many bluegrass songs sound like a race against time. As a result, many such songs sound like it's an exhibition of which virtuoso can be playing at the highest velocity with little regard for the song's meaning and nuances.
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Mat Kearney “Just Kids” Album Review

"Just Kids" unfolds like a novella with page after page of anecdotes from Mat Kearney's own life. With perspicuous attention paid to details, you can almost picture each scene in your mind's eye as Kearney sings about growing up, his struggles with faith, his bouts with self-identity, his run in with God, his meeting with his future wife, and his dreams and aspirations.
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Fireflight "We Are Alive" Single Review

Trials like the rays of the sun can either harden our hearts into bitterness as wet cement solidifies in the heat. Or they can soften our hearts to rely on Jesus just as the same rays melt a piece of ice. "We Are Alive" is a song about the latter.
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Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir “Pray” Album Review

How can a choir which started out with only 9 members go on to sing at the US 2013 Presidential Inauguration? How can a group who do not even read music get to sing at the Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and Madison Square Garden? How can choir music, which some have even deemed as passé, go on to win 9 Grammy Awards and multiple Dove Awards?
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Inspire Music “Inspire” Album Review

It's only a matter before Jesus Christ is brought to the dance floor. With EDM (electronic dance music) being so popular amongst youngsters circa the early 2010s, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Jesus deserves the best of EDM too.
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Sidney Mohede “The Rescue” EP Review

No one can ever build picket fences around God's Word. Once known as an impenetrable impasse of Muslim hegemony, now the Gospel has made mind-boggling inroads into Indonesia. One evidence of such triumphant is the 12,000 member church Jakarta Praise Community Church where Sidney Mohede serves as the network pastor.
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The Brilliance “Brother” Album Review

"I hope our music doesn't give anyone simple answers or dogmas, but opens their hearts to something more beautiful than they could possibly represent with words." This is the aspirations The Brilliance (comprising of John Arndt & David Gungor) has for their brand new Integrity Music debut "Brother." And true to their mandate, "Brother" isn't your typical worship album.
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Brandon Heath “No Turning Back” Album Review

There's a sentimental streak in Brandon Heath that puts a familial warmth to his music that is conspicuously missing from that of his peers. For his previous non-seasonal recording, Heath taps into his childhood memories as he allows his grandparents' Appalachian home to be the muse for his 2012 "Blue Mountain" disc. Now almost three years down the track, Heath celebrates 20 years since he first made his commitment to follow Christ.
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Darlene Zschech "In Jesus' Name: A Legacy of Worship and Faith" Album Review

Darlene Zschech singlehandedly opened the way for the rise of prominent recording female worship leaders. Prior to Zschech, Integrity Music only had on its roster men such as Paul Baloche, Marty Nystrom and Don Moen. But the imprint, which has always made it its mandate to service the church with her woship repertoire, took a chance with a suburban Australian church named Hillsong Church and its worship pastor Darlene Zschech.
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