Reviewed by Kwaku

Whilst the video only manages to squeeze 17 (the CD has 30) tracks into nearly one and a half hours viewing time, there's of course the added bonus of seeing some of your favourite artists performing, as well as hearing them.  But what comes to mind is the question, is the preponderance of live performance videos here because it's a cheaper alternative to staged videos?  Or are the artists intent on keeping it real by taking us to church, or major halls, such as the Wembley Conference Centre, where Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir recorded the opening video, 'Jesus Is My Help'?  Traditionalists are catered for by the likes of Fred Hammond & Radical For Christ, Yolanda Adams, Carlton Pearson, whose "Mother Sherman Story" introduction is most interesting, as is Helen Baylor's moving testimony of how she turned around from an eventful life of evil seduction.  Rev Milton Brunson And The Thompson Community Singers, all dressed in white, make an effort shooting their brassy "Shout" video by the beach.  But it's left to crossover artists like Virtue, Anointed and CeCe Winans (who has changes in hairstyle and clothes) to produce the kind of videos that attract the young and secular heads.

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