Passion: God of this City

2008 February 20
by Tyler

God of this CityThe newest Passion cd has been out for 2 weeks. It includes all the usual suspects: Tomlin, Redman, Charlie Hall, Kristian Stanfill, Steve Fee, and David Crowder. Not all those names ring bells for some of you but they’ve all been on Passion albums before.

For me, this cd was a bit of a disappointment. 8 of the 14 songs have already been released on albums by the respective song writers above. That is my lone complaint. I can’t remember a Passion album having this many songs as previously released. With iTunes giving the ability to just purchase songs I only purchased ones that I hadn’t heard before. So instead of being excited about a whole cd, I’m left to only be excited about a few.

With that said, I think all the songs they choose to put on the album that had already been released are money, they are awesome. So at least they put together a great cd for the people who haven’t heard some of those songs (they’re all still relatively new).

I’m wondering… which of the songs you are going to try to do as congregational worship?

My favorite on the whole cd: “Walk the World” by Charlie Hall

  • http://brenttrf.wordpress.com inWorship

    Hey Tyler, I came by your blog while on GodsGal’s site.

    Very cool your up north. I am down south in Medford.

    Regarding your post, I am with you that this CD is a little dissipointing, but the last couple have been similar. It seems to be a habit for worship CD’s lately. They have lots of compilations.

    With that said, we did God Of This City a couple weeks ago to end a series on Life Stewardship and community. It was perfect to emphasize our call to action to get involved with the community. I see it as more an anthem than a song we will continue to do, but I have people telling me they are humming it daily, so I guess it worked for getting the message to stick.

    Brent

  • http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

    Yeah I agree with you. I don’t think it fits well in the middle of a set of songs. More as a thematic statement. I really like Walk the World though, I think that works really really well as an upbeat sending type of song to end a service with.

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