Worship Central is rapidly becoming the UK’s equivalent to Hillsong or Passion, releasing regular live worship albums from a collection of the biggest names in UK worship – Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon, Nikki Fletcher and Luke Hellenbroth. They seem to have settled into a rhythm of releasing an album roughly every 18 months, and this […]
Category: Reviews
Chris Tomlin – Love Ran Red (Review)
When Chris Tomlin releases a new album, the church takes notice. And after the Billboard chart topping success of Burning Lights, this time maybe more than just the church will be taking notice of his upcoming release Love Ran Red (out October 27th). Chris Tomlin has written many of the biggest worship songs in the […]
Bluetree- Worship and Justice
Over the years Bluetree have gone through a few changes. But several things have remained constant throughout. Firstly leader singer Aaron Boyd’s distinctive Northern Irish voice has given Bluetree their characteristic sound. And secondly at the heart of everything they do has been a theme that is captured in the title of this new album […]
Rend Collective Gig Review
Last Thursday night I was at the Mandela Hall in Belfast for the first of two sold out gigs by local band Rend Collective. The Mandela Hall has a capacity of 1000 people, and to sell it out twice was an impressive feat for a Christian band, as many of the secular bands that play […]
Scott Stapp – Proof of life review
Proof of Life is the new solo album from Scott Stapp (lead singer of the band Creed). Since going solo as well as continuing as lead singer of Creed he has shared some of the struggles he has been through with addiction, re-finding faith and launching a solo career. Scott is an alternative rock/grunge singer, […]
Rend Collective – The Art of Celebration Review
Get your skinny jeans on and dust off your TOMS – Rend Collective are back, and this time safety glasses won’t be required as the Experiment is complete. And the results are good! Rend are releasing their new album soon (fittingly for a Northern irish band it comes out on March 17th, St Patrick’s day) […]
Review: What Would Jesus Post – Brian Wassom
What would Jesus post by Brian Wassom is a short book about how we should use social media as Christians. It is quite a timely book, as it is almost impossible today to not have some sort of social media profile, yet there hasn’t been a lot of good thought as to how as Christians we should approach […]
To live is Christ Review
To live is Christ is a new book by Matt Chandler that works through the book of Philippians. Philippians is one of my personal favourites of Paul’s letters, and it is probably one of the most quoted books of the Bible, in particular Philippians 4:13 very frequently being used out of context. And with Matt Chandler […]
True Love Dates – review
True Love Dates is a new entry to the somewhat crowded ‘Christian Dating Book’ scene which is full of confusion – one book tells you to kiss dating goodbye, another says to go on a sacred search, another says there is no such thing as “just friends” and now Debra Fileta is telling us that […]
Citizens – Repeat the Sounding Joy Review
After releasing one of the best worship albums of the year Seattle based Citizens are back with a Christmas album, that combines their modern indie hipster style of music with classic carols you will know and love – these are carols but not quite how you may remember them from traditional carol services – they […]