Reviewed by Tony Cummings

The success of the original ‘Offerings: A Worship Album’ took everybody a little by surprise. Those who knew their CCM could have told you that Atlanta, Georgia’s Third Day were one of America’s finest purveyors of bluesy rock music and had in Mac Powell one of the most arresting singers in Christendom. But it still shook everybody when their live praise and worship project sold in such huge quantities and catapulted the band to the status of million-sellers. Now this new album, produced by Third Day and Monroe Jones (Bebo Norman, Paul Colman Trio, etc, etc) continues the live worship experience with six songs recorded during the band’s Come Together tour of 2002 plus another six studio cuts including four written by members of the band. Often when live and studio recordings are mixed the effect is unconvincing but here there is a continuity of sound with loud, raw guitars and Mac Powell’s soulfully rasping vocals which make this a moving worship experience and a significant artistic triumph.

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