Passion for God

Just like the title of the first track on the album, There is more, there is certainly more within Lou Fellingham’s new album Step into the light.  Lou shows the power and diversity of her voice, ranging from Amazing God (originally done with Phatfish) to her new version of To God be the glory with the original lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby.

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Kim Walker is a lead worship leader/singer that has come out of the Jesus Culture movement from Bethal Church, Redding, California. I can’t sum up the music better than this quote from the website:
 
Jesus Culture Music
Jesus Culture Music exists to ignite revival in the nations of the earth. Our heart is to compel the Body of Christ to radically abandon itself to a lifestyle of worship, motivated by a passion to see God receive the glory that is due His name. We long for Jesus to be exalted in the nations and for His manifest presence to invade this world. Although we aspire for people to sing great worship songs, we are primarily committed to see them come into His presence through worship… to encounter His extravagant love and raw power.
 
This is such a true statement. Everytime I listen to this live worship album from Kim Walker I get caught up in worship and inspired to worship. It’s full of God and scripture. It’s not a live worship album in the sense that the artist cuts out the good stuff but this album has worshipping with tongues and spontanious songs. A spontanious song follows a ‘normal’ song. There are 5 ‘normal’ songs and 5 spontanious songs. It’s not just filling a space/time either, its true, quality and amazing worship to our Saviour and Creator, Jesus.
 
Truely an amazing album, buy it.

Review by Terry

Running after You
Ben Cantelon, Survivor Records 2009

Ben’s new album contains anthemic songs as well as personal expressions of worship. He is a worship leader who started out at Soul Survivor and is now based at Worship Central in Holy Trinity Brompton.

From the first track ‘Not ashamed’ the band produce a full on sound to get things going followed swiftly by ‘God of all’ in the same vein.

Jericho is one of my favourite tracks and is a unique way of calling on God to take down the walls in our lives. Coming back is then one of the most powerful songs I’ve heard recently that calls us back into personal relationship with God. I heard Ben do this song at the Worship Together conference in Eastbourne last year and it went down really well.

Remain is a good song and breathe also but they probably won’t feature heavily in worship services. Carry on is a simple but personal song with a melancholic tone.

Running after you is the title track of the album, incase you wondered why the album artwork is Mr Cantelon running everywhere in downtown America! It’s a good tune to start off the year with: ‘you are my reward, it’s you I’m living for, take all that I am, for I am yours’.

Hallelujah is a song that builds with atmospheric intensity to echo the heavenly cry around which the song is built. The album finishes with You Alone, another acoustic song that is a simple but perfect way to finish.

All in all this is an album that will grow on you the more you listen to it. Ben Cantelon is at his best when rocking out anthemic songs and the live sound is amazing but there are some simple and powerful ballads also. Enjoy!