Counting on God CD Review
Counting on God is the newest worship project from New Life Church in Colorado Springs. I was hesitant but pleasantly surprised.
They released one album before that when I listened to it I felt like I was listening to a Hillsong knockoff. They had songs with catchy riffs and neat vocal hooks but it just felt like they were trying to be Hillsong. NOT ANY MORE!!!!
This album is fantastic from start to finish. (Thanks to Stoney for making me listen to it) It starts off with the title track Counting on God. The rhythm is pretty syncopated but the melody is easy to grasp. When you get to the chorus it breaks into “bubble gum pop” kind of harmonies. It really works well and helps the melody to be picked up easier. All in all I think that most of the songs are very singalongable (yeah I know it’s not a word but I use it all of the time). Ultimately there is one reason this album is so much better than their last one. They wrote this one from the heart. They wrote this album coming out of one of the toughest times and church could endure. They weren’t trying to write the next great worship song. They just wrote worship…
Here is their story.
Great worship grows out of great brokenness.
When we realize how helpless we are, how much we need Him, how deeply we have wounded Him, and then how much grace He gives us, we must only fall at His feet in worship, pouring out our most treasured possession…
Usually it’s our “cherished image.”
Our “cherished image” is the “self” present to other people. It is the self we either think we are or wish others to believe us to be.
The kind of brokenness God heals is the kind that abandons that “cherished image” and accepts what He says of us.
From this broken-redeemed vessel pours forth true worship…the kind God enjoys.
Dare we give Him any other kind?