These songs have a variety of styles and the stories of the songs reflect what the various churches and the people in them had been going through, so there are songs of praise and songs of comfort and reassurance on this recording. The opening track “All You’ve Done” brings the keys led track which speaks of everything that God has done for us, not just in giving us a new heart (not just fixing a broken one) but also in other restorations, this moves us to praise. This is a song that borrows from many of the Biblical references of hope after a troubled time, “beauty for ashes”, “mourning into dancing” and others. There is a good strong lead vocal on this track but there is limited information on which leader is singing each track. “You Are Good (In Everything)” is a song that has a similar slant, but a different way of looking at it. Where “All You’ve Done” is a story of hope that will come, this track is about trusting that what you are going through is not meant to harm, it’s about trusting God in the now whilst hoping in God for the future.

“Cast My Burden” starts with a reprise of “We Shall Not Be Moved” the spiritual song, for many people this has connotations for the Civil Rights movement when this became a protest song. However they have dipped past this and taken it back to it’s root in the Bible verse, Psalm 55:22. From this initial song they launch into their original track which just picks up brilliantly reminding us of the ability to cast our burdens onto Jesus. It’s such a positive tune that I can see spreading into the churches. This is very much a song that is about encouragement of the believer as it is about the steadfast and trustworthy nature of God.

Where the first tracks have been largely identifying in trouble and remembering God is that ever-faithful one that we can turn to, “Christ My Anchor” bridges this idea and turns the attention more to Jesus. Although all these songs classify as worship, the last couple of tracks are more focused on God and Jesus themselves and not just what they can do for us. “Beauty of the Cross” feels like a modern hymn which works nicely in this format and finishes with multiple readings of Galatians 6v14. This track has a female lead vocal which changes the dynamic away from the 3 worship leaders, although the song is theirs. It’s a song that has been refined over a process of years until they felt that they could adequately capture something of what they were intending. It has been worth the time and work put into it as this is a beautiful song that reminds us of the moment and why Jesus went through it all.

The album rounds out with “Glory to God Alone” which is a great place for it to finish. It starts off as a more reflective track considering the holiness of God. This is a change to the other more lively tracks. This gentle vocal leads us to join in that worship, a worship that comes from deep within to be expressed by the very core of our being as we add to the chorus “Holy, Holy, Is The Lord Almighty”.