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.
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Posts related to America and American culture.
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Between the Stars by Flyleaf
Flyleaf return in 2014 with Between the Stars, a melodic alternative rock record marking a new chapter and singer, full of fire and resolve.
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24
24 is an American action thriller series. It aired on Fox from 6 November 2001 to 24 May 2010, with a limited revival in 2014. Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran created it. Kiefer Sutherland plays Jack Bauer, a federal agent at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), directed by James Gunn, follows a group of criminals and misfits who are thrown together in a space prison and must work as a team to stop a fanatic from destroying an entire planet. Chris Pratt plays Peter Quill, a thief who calls himself Star-Lord.
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Glory by Kutless
Kutless turn fully to worship on their 2014 record Glory, pairing rock guitars with congregational songs of revelation, restoration, and praise.
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BarlowGirl by BarlowGirl
BarlowGirl's 2004 release, guitars with weight and drive. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
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You Make Me Brave by Bethel Music
Bethel Music capture a live 2014 worship album about courage drawn from love, recorded at a women's conference in Redding, California.
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Unstoppable Love by Jesus Culture
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.
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Only King Forever by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship deliver a live 2014 album of strong congregational anthems about grace, kingship, and a God raised to life forever.
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Thrive by Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns return in 2014 with Thrive, a pop-rock record about rooted faith, honesty in hard seasons, and growing rather than merely surviving.
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All Is Lost
All Is Lost (2013), directed by J.C. Chandor, is a stark, gripping survival drama. Robert Redford delivers a powerful, nearly wordless performance as a lone sailor battling the elements after his yacht is damaged at sea.
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Fading West by Switchfoot
Switchfoot pair surf-film images with rock songs about purpose on their 2014 record Fading West, a search for life beyond the routine.
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Nothing Is Wasted by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's 2013 live album about a God who wastes no part of our pain, recorded with a roaring crowd.
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The Utopia Experiment by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith looks into a new brain-computer device that may not be the gift its inventor claims.
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World War Z
World War Z (2013), directed by Marc Forster, shows a fast zombie plague. Brad Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a former UN worker pulled back to help. He flies from city to city. Mireille Enos acts as his wife Karin, who waits at home.
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Collapsible Lung by Relient K
Relient K's 2013 album is their brightest pop turn, a lighter record about love, doubt, and trying again.
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Inferno by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s Inferno thrusts Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon into a race against time in Florence, waking with amnesia to stop a bioengineered plague linked to Dante’s Inferno.
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Rise by Skillet
Skillet's 2013 record turns the noise outward, a hard rock album about young people fighting to rise above fear and despair.
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Worship Again by Michael W. Smith
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.
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The Office
The Office is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 24 March 2005 to 16 May 2013. Greg Daniels adapted it from the British series by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Steve Carell plays Michael Scott, the bumbling but well-meaning regional manager of Dunder Mifflin, a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Tides by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2013 debut studio album, spacious worship about being carried by the love of God.
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Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 (2013), directed by Shane Black, follows Tony Stark after the events that nearly broke him. Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony, who suffers from panic attacks and buries himself in building suits he cannot stop making.
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The Janus Reprisal by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal, co-authored with Jamie Freveletti, Covert-One's Jon Smith survives a terrorist attack in The Hague and chases a Pakistani warlord across Europe.
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Worship by Michael W. Smith
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.
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Burning Lights by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2013 album sets bright, singable worship around the image of light against the dark.
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