Worship Devotional - A Month In Word & Worship: September
STYLE: Ambient/Meditational RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 108482-18725 LABEL: Kingsway Music KWCD3171 FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 2 RELEASE DATE: 2011-07-11 RRP: £1.00
Reviewed by Simon Eden
There is a Nirvana song called 'In Bloom' that has the lyrics..."He's the one, who likes all our pretty songs and he likes to sing along...but he knows not what it means". As a worship leader, I can identify with this sentiment. Being up the front with a guitar singing words that the songwriter has carefully considered (and in a worship context may be scripture based) and the people in front of you are singing along. If it is a new song, the probability is that many haven't even considered what they are singing, and by the time the vocal has passed it's too late to wonder what it meant before the next line comes. So stop a while. Really consider in your own time what you are singing. Pray through the lyrics; read the scripture that it was based on, and contemplate what its relevance is to you. Then go back and sing it like you mean it. Like the other months in this range, these two CDs have tracks or songs from some of the top UK worship leaders like Tim Hughes, Paul Oakley, Ben Cantelon, etc, and more obscure ones while the devotional book makes some thought provoking points.
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Product Description
This is number nine in the series that takes listeners through the year with a fresh song of worship twinned with a specifically commissioned devotional for each day.
Across two CDs are thirty great worship songs. From Tim Hughes ‘Here I Am To Worship’ to Stuart Townend’s ‘Praise To The Lord The Almighty’. Other songs include ‘Jericho’ (Ben Cantelon), ‘Dreamers Of Your Dreams’ (Aaron Keyes) and ‘When All Around Has Fallen’ and ‘King of Love’ by Delirious?.