Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

This current wave of American worship in response to Delirious? proving every­one wrong, and selling their worship albums by the shed full, only smacks of jumping on the band wagon. However Cheri Keaggy's music has always had a slant towards worship as she was a worship leader in her church before she ever made any recordings. It's telling that amidst Nashville's current fad for all things worshippy, this album is marketed as "the worship songs of Cheri Keaggy" - wonder what the material on the previous albums was? Never mind! It features polished pop performances, a band consisting of the usual musos from Nashville's bank of sessioners, plus a pile of vocalists who grace loads of wor­ship albums made in Johnny Cashville (the usual suspects - Lenny Leblanc, Lisa Bevill, Gary Sadler, etc). There's no doubt that this is professionally put together but somehow, amongst the slickness, some of this feels a little over­produced for British ears, and it's easy to lose sight of the heart of worship in the glittering sheen. All very nice and all that, but ultimately unsatisfying, and I am left unmoved.

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