Love Ran Red by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin centres his 2014 worship album Love Ran Red on the cross, with congregational songs of grace, awe, and a gathered table.
Worship music is written for congregational praise, turning prayer and scripture into song. It ranges from quiet devotion to full-band anthems.
Chris Tomlin centres his 2014 worship album Love Ran Red on the cross, with congregational songs of grace, awe, and a gathered table.
Kutless turn fully to worship on their 2014 record Glory, pairing rock guitars with congregational songs of revelation, restoration, and praise.
Hillsong Worship deliver a live 2014 album about the name of Jesus, grace for broken vessels, and faith confessed together in one room.
Bethel Music capture a live 2014 worship album about courage drawn from love, recorded at a women's conference in Redding, California.
Jesus Culture capture a 2014 live album about a love that will not stop, with surrendered praise led by Kim Walker-Smith and Chris Quilala.
Elevation Worship deliver a live 2014 album of strong congregational anthems about grace, kingship, and a God raised to life forever.
Elevation Worship's 2013 live album about a God who wastes no part of our pain, recorded with a roaring crowd.
Hillsong Worship's 2013 live album about faith found in broken places, recorded with a full church singing along.
Michael W. Smith's 2002 release, music made for a room full of voices. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Bethel Music's 2013 debut studio album, spacious worship about being carried by the love of God.
A later discovery: Hillsong United's 2000 live album captures the young worship band's early fire and plain devotion.
Hillsong United's 2013 album reworks worship through electronic textures, the home of the song Oceans.
Michael W. Smith's 2001 release, a set of songs written for the gathered church. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Chris Tomlin's 2013 album sets bright, singable worship around the image of light against the dark.
Jesus Culture's 2012 Live from New York is a long, fervent night of worship with Martin Smith and Kim Walker-Smith.
Hillsong Worship's 2012 live album Cornerstone gathers a great congregation around songs of grace, hope, and surrender.
Bethel Music's 2012 The Loft Sessions is an intimate, acoustic worship record, warm and unhurried in its tone.
Hillsong United's 2012 Live in Miami captures a long, electric night of worship with a young, charged sound.
Kutless return in 2012 with a heavier, worship-minded record that pairs hard guitars with songs of faith and endurance.
Hillsong's 1992 debut live worship album, the first of a long line, which I came to long after it was recorded.
Bethel Music's 2011 live album gathers warm, spacious worship from a single church, songs that grew in the room.
Hillsong's 2011 live worship album rests on one steady promise, big congregational songs about God's ability.
Elevation Worship's 2011 debut live album brings bright, bold church songs from a young Charlotte congregation.
Jesus Culture's 2011 double live album captures a loud, hungry worship night, raw and long and full of fire.
Hillsong United's 2011 studio album turns inward and atmospheric, worship songs shaped by quiet and weight.