Abigail Entertainment LLC
Release Date: August 14th 2015
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Abigail Duhon– More Than Gold (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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TobyMac – This is Not A Test
Forefront Records
Release Date: August 7th 2015
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
TobyMac– This is Not A Test (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Throwback Tuesdays and Worship Wednesdays – “Above All”
What was your favourite song growing up? The track you couldn’t live without? The one that you would play and listen to 20 times in a row just because you could? The song that still has a place and has meaning in your heart now as much, or maybe even more so, than you had then? Even if you think you didn’t have a favourite song, I’m sure you did. The one you’d catch yourself singing to because you just can’t get it out of your head. The one that has had so much impact on you when you were younger that once it starts to play now, it brings back many fond memories about your youth.
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Sentimental Saturdays and Message Mondays (Media Can Influence Us More Than We Think)
It’s been a while since I’ve actually seen a movie. The last movie I saw was the remake of Annie, and the last movie I watched at the cinema was Guardians of the Galaxy. Since starting working full-time, I haven’t really been doing much of anything outside of work, as well as maintaining this site. Not that that is a bad thing, I really enjoy my work, yet it is on some of these days on the weekends when I become sentimental, and remember life as it once was. Rewind to ten years ago and I and my family were heavily invested in movies- often we’d travel to our local cinema a few times a year. While watching a movie as a family consisted more of watching and less of conversing and actually interacting, our times together watching a movie we all enjoyed is something that I cannot take for granted, especially now since movie-going is more of a luxury than ever.
Josh Wilson – That Was Then, This is Now
Sparrow Records
Release Date: July 31st 2015
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Josh Wilson– That Was Then, This is Now (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Worship Wednesdays (Worship in the Marketplace)
It is only now that I have discovered what it truly means to worship in the marketplace. To glorify God in every action I do as I work rather than see worship, like I have for so much of my life, as an act of going to church on a particular day, listening to a sermon, raising my hands and singing a few songs, and then going about my day for the remainder 6 days of the week before I start the process again. I know what I have described can sound a bit monotonous at times, and I reckon it probably was, yet how I realise even more now than before that you don’t necessarily have to routinely travel to church on a Sunday morning to worship our Saviour, Father and Friend.
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Amber Nelon Thompson – Just Sing
Daywind Records
Release Date: July 31st 2015
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Amber Nelon Thompson– Just Sing (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
TV Thursdays and Futuristic Fridays (Humans- What Does It Really Mean To Be One?)
I know around the world it’s Saturday, yet this topic has been brewing in my head for a while. And as I collide TV Thursdays with Futuristic Fridays together in this mega-post of sorts, I’ve come to discuss a topic that is quite hot right now- especially with the rise in the amount of sci-fi human-type shows and movies lately (Terminator, Orphan Black, Bicentennial Man, Extant etc.). What does it mean to be a human? Laughing, talking, thinking, expression of emotions, having the ability to discern right from wrong, being able to make sound decisions that will affect the lives of others as well as themselves? Or how about just being, being able to feel- the good and the bad, the joys and highs of emotion and the low valleys of despair, all the while knowing that God created us in His own image- and that as we feel both highs and lows, we know that God has also felt the very emotions we feel?
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Kevin Max – Broken Temples (Deluxe Edition)
Motion Records
Release Date: July 17th 2015
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Kevin Max– Broken Temples (Deluxe Edition) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
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Worship Wednesdays (What does Worship look like?)
How do you think people should worship? When you travel to your local church for a Sunday morning worship service, what do you expect to see? People singing, everyone raising their hands? Hymns sung, or would it be the latest CCM pop/worship melody to make the rounds on radio currently? How would you respond during worship- jumping up and down, being silent and reflective, kneeling, or hands raised? These are all valid questions to the individual, and some that have divided many throughout the centuries. Just walk into an Anglican church, a Pentecostal church, a Baptist Church, or any other denominational church and you’d probably see what I mean. The definition of worship, aside from it being a lifestyle rather than a genre of music, has meant different things to different people. And here in this new post, we will think of another valid question relating to worship- can you worship and be in God’s presence, as much or maybe even more, when you listen to a rap melody from an artist like TobyMac or Lecrae, rather than a traditional worship artist like Kari Jobe or Chris Tomlin?
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