The All About Worship Collective is a collection of worship songs written for The Church by various worship leaders/songwriters, made available for free. The vision for the Collective is to be a resource of quality, top-notch, corporate worship songs for local churches all over the world…AT NO COST TO YOU!…thanks to the generous artists, songwriters, and record labels!

Volume 3 Includes:

1. Oh Our Lord (feat. All Sons & Daughters) - Paul Baloche

2. Highest Praise – Sean Hill

3. Running into Your Name - Ben Woodward

4. All Praise Be (feat. Jennie Mahood) - Matthew Reed

5. Awakening (feat. Michael Farren) – Wisdom Moon

6. Shine / We Wait (feat. Brian Johnson) – Dave Fitzgerald

7. At The Name (feat. Katherine Castro, Kennedy Goins) - Sean Hill

8. Belongs to You (All the Glory)  (feat. Melody Francis) - Harvest Worship

9. Light of the World – Sean Carter

10. Greatly to be Praised – Mike Kim

11. Can’t Get Enough of You (feat. Emily Riddle, Sarah Reeves) – Jennie Lee Riddle

Go to our Collective page to download the free album, as well as the free chord charts to all the songs! It’s only available for 90 days!!

Related posts:

1. Announcing the All About Worship Collective, Volume One
2. All About Worship Collective, Volume One – Download For Free Now!
3. Free Single by Wisdom Moon & Sean Hill

What Else?

• Ben reveals why he is a worship leader and not a beatboxer
• Our hosts introduce a new, nearly useless superhero, Remember-the-Date Man
• Wisdom bears witness to Ben’s unique shofar skills

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1. AAW Podcast Episode 83, featuring an Exclusive Interview w/ Sean Hill
2. AAW Podcast Episode 82, featuring an Exclusive Interview w/ Brothers McClurg
3. AAW Podcast Episode 84, featuring an Exclusive Interview w/ Stephen Miller

With Paul’s latest release, The Same Love, that anticipation is greatly rewarded with a batch of fresh, powerful, creative new songs for the church. Even with this new project, Baloche’s 12th recording with Integrity Music, Paul continues to stay relevant and in tune with what’s happening today musically and in the church at large.

Collaborating with some of today’s top artists in the church, like Kari Jobe, All Sons & Daughters, Lincoln Brewster, Kathryn Scott and more, Paul delivers an album with themes of God’s faithfulness and mercy through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross that showcases his unbreakable connection to and passion for the Church.

From the opening few bars of piano on the first track, the title song, you can tell this album is going to be an adventure into new territory for Baloche. Co-written with Michael Rossback, “The Same Love” invites us with a fresh, new sound to remember that God is calling us all by name with “The same love that set the captives free/The same love that opened eyes to see”.

Paul says of the creative process behind this album, “You’re trying to go places you’ve never been, deeper into ancient truths, stirring up your modern soul, if you will.” The result of this exploration is a progressive, yet familiar sound for Baloche, mixing all of these different elements of harmony, chords, lyrics, melody and vibe.

The album continues with “We Are Saved”, a song not only co-written with Ben Fielding, but Ben also lends his voice on this driving, Hillsong-esque anthem. Many familiar voices are heard along with Paul’s on this project, including popular duo All Sons & Daughters on “King of Heaven” and “Oh Our Lord” – two standout tracks!

Kathryn Scott lends her voice on “My Hope”, a powerful song of hope for the church. Baloche says, “Life is hard, people are looking for hope, and there’s not much to be found outside of the hope we have in Christ. My intent is for these songs to be honest prayers for the Church to sing…”

Other familiar voices you’ll hear are Kari Jobe on “Look Upon the Lord”, One Sonic Society’s Jason Ingram on “Reign In Me”, and Brothers McClurg on “Just Say”, which was previously recorded on their Alive EP with a whole different vibe. Other songs you may recognize are “Loved By You” and “Shout for Joy” which are co-writes with Lincoln Brewster and appear on his Real Life project.

Once again, Paul Baloche gives the Church a great gift with The Same Love. Paul’s voice sounds just as strong as ever, and the album is filled with songs that will work well in a corporate worship setting. From the simple yet striking “Your Blood Ran Down” to the full sound of “All Because of The Cross”, you will be sure to find a use for every song on this amazing album.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

-Review by Barry Westman
(review copy provided by Integrity Music)

Related posts:

1. The Same Love – Music Video by Paul Baloche
2. “Just To Be With You” by Paul Baloche – music video
3. Where I Find You, Kari Jobe – Album Review

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1. “Just To Be With You” by Paul Baloche – music video
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“I have this desire to see our generation worshipping God,” says Gillespie. “But a lot of the people I get to meet through music—kids with tattoos and swoop over haircuts—don’t think of worship as ‘cool.’ I want them to find a home and a vocabulary to experience this kind of music.”

It’s this kind of approach that seems to have shaped a well-rounded, fresh expression of worship from the 27 year-old artist. As a pastor who is always looking for the next song to feed our students, young adults and congregation, this album doesn’t disappoint.

There’s honestly not one song that leaves me wanting more, and although some of the tracks lean more heavily on soaring choruses and strong melodic hooks than poetic lyrical offerings, Anthem Song provides the listener with a fully satisfying worship encounter. Aside from my favorites, “We Were Made for You,” the first single co-written with Paul Baloche, and the title-track “Anthem Song,” other notable moments include:

“I will Worship You” - Beautiful song of surrender with a familiar Hillsong chorus woven in… “Halelujah, Halelujah, Halelujah, Our God Reigns.”

“Earnestly I Seek You” - So honest and raw. If you’re looking for a song to bolster your “quiet-time” rotation, this is it. And I love, love, love the raw vocals at the end!

“Washed Away” – A corporate cry for God to wash over The Church.

Themes of deep devotion, true justice and complete consecration are evident from start to finish. I would highly recommend this album to anyone.

Review by Joe Cameneti Jr.
(CD provided courtesy of BEC Recordings)

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Brenton Brown continues his tradition of top-class songwriting and high-class production with his latest offering – Our God is Near. Here are my thoughts on this exciting new release…

I was introduced to “Our God is Mercy” at a recent conference. It was a lively opener with a catchy melody and had a structure that was very easy to follow. The song was quick and upbeat, yet gave enough space for interpretation, and had a nice refrain (“Lift up your eyes, lift up your eyes”…etc.) giving space for the congregation to regain some breath. Within seconds I was hooked, and over the course of the weekend, as the song grew in familiarity, so the passion of the words ignited something deep within me.

The studio version present on this album is again an upbeat offering – with a lively, punchy drumbeat with the rhythm guitar providing a strong, progressive feel to the song. The lyrics invite the worshipper into the song – there is a strong message of hope, acceptance and belonging prevalent within the opener to the album.

We go from here to the second track – “Joyful”, with an instantly recognisable melody line – adapted from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony’s “Ode to Joy”. The message of this song is beautiful – it’s hymnal verses are complemented superbly by a lively praise chorus (“You are the one who saves “etc.). This track (and indeed the entire album) stays faithful to the typical Sunday-morning worship band lineup – a couple of guitars, bass, drums and not much else. The producers (Jason Ingram & Rusty Varenkamp) deserve credit for this, as all too often studio worship albums can be completely over-orchestrated and almost impossible for worship bands to reproduce.

I had heard “Glorious” on Paul Baloche’s album of the same name, a co-write with Brenton, and as with other songs such as “Because of Your Love”, this appears on both Paul and Brenton’s albums. Brenton’s versions of these songs tend to be rockier than Paul’s, and this is no exception, with the introductory riff taken by a crunchy lead guitar. Bass and drums are the key to this version, pounding us through the song with passion and fervour.

Other highlights on this album include “All I Want” – a song that expresses perfectly the Lord’s love, grace and mercy towards us, and in the chorus we offer our response to the Lord of our desire to know Him and feel Him more.

The beautiful closing song “All for You” contains a great message which I will leave you with – this represents my heart for worship and how I feel we should view our relationship with the Lord:

“Jesus this is all for You,
Father this is all for You,
How Your children long to bless Your heart
Lord we’ve tasted and we’ve seen
We’ve held the beauty of the King
And we long to magnify our God”

Standout Songs:
All For You
Our God is Mercy
Glorious

Review by Ed Rotheram
(Review CD provided by Kingsway)

You can hang out with Brenton Brown and worship along to his new songs at the upcoming All About Worship Retreat in Kansas City, May 19-21…along with Pocket Full of Rocks, Sarah Reeves, Dave Fitzgerald, and 60 other fellow worship leaders/worshippers.

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