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Hey Ya’ll,

Well my friends around here have been telling me about this record for a while now. I even heard the title song on SongDISCovery, I think. It wasn’t until this week that I made the connection – this “Brian Johnson” is the son of Bill Johnson, the pastor of Bethel in Redding, CA. I love Bill, I love Bethel, I love what they teach, and the spirit they have. That made this album more desirable.

Shannon, the Associate Worship Director of SSCC is leading worship this Sunday and he’s introducing “O Taste and See” as the walk-in song. As soon as I heard it I said “Man, what is that song!?”. When he told me, I thought “OK, that’s too many people talking about this album and these worship leaders”. Travis (the Tech Director) and I immediately opened iTunes in the sound booth and bought the CD.

I can’t review the entire album because I can’t get away from two songs.

“O Taste and See” – a more pop, british-sounding, driving song of praise – I love it, and I’m already considering it for Worship Under the Stars.

“Where You Go, I’ll Go” – OK, this is the song that made me blog. OH MY! SWEEP ME AWAY. Unless your congregation is a bit more acclimated to a more prophetic, open worship style, this may be more applicable for your personal time of prayer and worship. I can’t turn this up loud enough. I can’t listen to it enough. This has a very strong “Don Potter” touch on it … I dunno if Brian and Jenn would agree, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been influenced by Don, as I know he’s done a good bit of teaching in their school of worship at Bethel.

The beginning of the song is OK – interesting, unique … but it’s the explosion of spontaneous, open praise and worship that bursts forth later into this 10-minute track that leaves me lost in a place of an incredible captivity.

If you only have $.99 to spend – get “Where You Go, I’ll Go” … if you can shell out $1.98 – get the other song. $9.99 gets you the entire album on iTunes. (this link will open iTunes, assuming you have it installed, and will take you straight to this album in the music store)

Hope it stirs you the same way it moved me!

For the Kingdom,
Fred