Reviewed by Richard Smith

This album has been released in support of the Micah 2010 challenge. The work of Micah Challenge is a Christian response to the Millennium Development Goals aiming to halve extreme poverty by 2015. The songs on this CD are all themed around justice, mercy and humility with the aim of "joining the dots between worship and justice" and some songs help to reflect on the weekly Micah 2010 challenge topics. The CD is a compilation of old and new songs such as "Now To Live The Life" sung by Matt Redman and "You Have Shown Us" - from the CompassionArt project and performed by Chris Tomlin, Paul Baloche and Steven Curtis Chapman. Some of the other tracks on the set are by Stuart Townend, Delirious? and Brenton Brown. The order of the songs seems a little random at times, however they do help to encourage us to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with our God.

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2010 is a year of great challenge and opportunity in the fight against global poverty. It’s ten years since the nations of the world made promises to the poor amongst us and Micah Challenge are bringing 100 million people together in a worldwide cry that the poor and our promises to them cannot be forgotten.

With a vision of gathering people together to commit to remembering the poor and living a life that helps bring justice, Micah Challenge want to ask our leaders to do the same. The worldwide Micah 2010 campaign will begin on 10/10/10 - a day when literally millions of Christians worldwide will be mobilised to pray, promise and press their leaders. Visit www.micahchallenge.org.uk for more information.

You Have Shown Us is a collection of songs bringing together worship and justice. God’s heart has always been for the poor. This album will be released in support of the Micah 2010 Challenge.