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You Are My King (Amazing Love): The familiar worship song that realizes we are only forgiven and accepted because of His death on the cross. Great Is Your Faithfulness: Not the classic hymn, but it carries the same basic idea: Great is God's faithfulness Take My Hands (Praises): Asking God to take what I have and I will praise Him. Adoration: A Christmas-like song about Jesus' birth, saying "All I have to give Him is adoration" In Christ Alone: This one is the classic hymn; doesn't need much explaining Lord (I Don't Know) (live): A confession to God that I don't understand what's happening, so give me peace that passes understanding. Also a recognition that God is in control, even if we "don't know where all this is going, or how it all works out" It is You (live): A powerful yet simple worship song that declares "It is You we adore, It is You praises are for" Father, Blessed Father: Simply worshipping and praising God, almost a combination of the other album songs: "Take our hands...all adoration..." Hallelujah: (not the same song as on Step Up) This song is anticipating the coming day when we'll all "be singing Hallelujah at the top of our lung"
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My Review It's interesting that when bands make worship CDs, the reviews (see below) don't concern themselves much with how worshipful the CD is, but how "good" it is, creative-like and all. This Newsboys CD lacked some originality, but I don't think originality is as important if you can really worship to the music. Unfortunately, they didn't excel in that either. They're all good Christian songs, but they don't all fit under the CD subtitle "The Worship Album". (It's also interesting that Newsboys' official site says that Adoration is "getting rave reviews for both its spiritual and musical depth." Really? One happy review and three disappointed reviews coming right up after this one.) As another review pointed out, "He Reigns" is more about worship than it is worship (and "Hallelujah" is the same way). "Adoration" is Christmas-like, not a easy-to-praise-God-with kinda song. "Take My Hands (Praises)" is copied off the Shine the hits song "Praises," and doesn't equal it in worth. Of the other six songs, two are from Newsboys' last CD, and two more are old favorites. That leaves two good, new, worship songs: "Great Is Your Faithfulness" and "Father, Blessed Father." On the other hand, even if it's not new, "Amazing Love" is an awesome worship song, and Newsboys did a nice job on it too. Ditto on "In Christ Alone." Adoration is decent, but it would have been a lot better if they had spent more time on it. It's not like they haven't been busy, what with a remix CD, a live DVD, a song for the VeggieTales movie Jonah, and another Phil Joel solo album all in the past year, to name a few. And besides, their last good real CD, Thrive, came out just last year. We could have waited a little longer. So in conclusion, unless you really like Newsboys and want it for the collection, don't buy it. If you want worship, there are plenty of other great CDs out there (try Passion, MercyMe, or Third Day's Offerings II), and if you just want good music, there is plenty of that too (try Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown, or Audio Adrenaline's Worldwide). Sorry, 'boys, but it could have been better.
Music Variety: 6 of 10
CCM Magazine (May 2003)
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