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1. Hallelujah, Our God Reigns
2. So Come Reign
3. Your Kingdom Come
4. Open Hands
5. Here I Am, Send Me
6. Seek It First
7. To The Least Of These
8. God of Grace
9. Trinity
2. So Come Reign
3. Your Kingdom Come
4. Open Hands
5. Here I Am, Send Me
6. Seek It First
7. To The Least Of These
8. God of Grace
9. Trinity
Your Kingdom Come
[Release Date: August 25, 2009] (Centricity Music)
Track Listing:
Track Listing:
10. You Can Do Anything
11. Hymn in C
12. Alive
13. Every Knee Will Bow
14. Where Is The Difference
15. Woe To You
16. We Will Shine
17. No One Else
18. 117
11. Hymn in C
12. Alive
13. Every Knee Will Bow
14. Where Is The Difference
15. Woe To You
16. We Will Shine
17. No One Else
18. 117
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| 94% A |
As an artist who isn’t interested in simply making music for music’s sake, Matt Papa
writes songs that center around God’s word and doesn’t consider his job done until the
lyrics have taken permanent residence in a listener’s head. “If you can write a song that’
s full of God’s word, and that song gets in someone’s head, that’s a powerful thing,”
Papa says. “I often don’t remember a sermon I heard yesterday, let along a year ago. But
with songs, there’s a hook, and people remember it. So that’s why I want to write about
Scripture. I don’t want to waste time.”
Staying right on point, the call to live intentionally is a theme that resonates deeply
through the songs of Papa’s new Centricity Music release, “Your Kingdom Come”. First
song “Hallelujah, Our God Reigns” is one of my favorite songs of the year and it grabs
your attention immediately with its piano intro and rock beat. The song is epic and has
the best guitar riff I’ve heard in a long time. Matt said he wrote the guitar part and
wanted to find a way to sing the words of Revelation 19, “All Glory and honor be unto
the Lamb, Forever and ever and ever, Amen”. Check out the song and you’ll be
hooked. Title song “Your Kingdom Come” keeps the praise and worship going in the
style of worship leaders Matt Redman, David Crowder and Delirious?.
The idea of being flexible and available to do whatever God calls us to do is what inspired
the album’s central thesis and first single, “Open Hands”. “You have to live before God
with open hands. We may have our plans and ideas, but at any moment, Christians,
unlike the world, have to be ready to drop anything and totally do something else if God
is calling us to,” Papa says. Some other highlights for me on the album are “Trinity” and
“Here Am I, Send Me.” “With ‘Here Am I, Send Me,’ it was Isaiah who uttered those
famous words after seeing The Lord, high and exalted,” Papa says. “The Church has
forgotten to pray those words for too long. It is wonderful and necessary to demonstrate
acts of kindness, service and love, but those by themselves aren’t enough. The world
must hear the Gospel. They must hear the name of Jesus. And we, the Church, must
surrender all we have and go tell them!”
Closing Thoughts:
If you like Matt Redman, David Crowder and Delirious?, then you have to check out
Matt Papa. “Hallelujah, Our God Reigns”, “Your Kingdom Come”, “Open Hands” and
“Trinity” are my favorite songs on this very solid album.
writes songs that center around God’s word and doesn’t consider his job done until the
lyrics have taken permanent residence in a listener’s head. “If you can write a song that’
s full of God’s word, and that song gets in someone’s head, that’s a powerful thing,”
Papa says. “I often don’t remember a sermon I heard yesterday, let along a year ago. But
with songs, there’s a hook, and people remember it. So that’s why I want to write about
Scripture. I don’t want to waste time.”
Staying right on point, the call to live intentionally is a theme that resonates deeply
through the songs of Papa’s new Centricity Music release, “Your Kingdom Come”. First
song “Hallelujah, Our God Reigns” is one of my favorite songs of the year and it grabs
your attention immediately with its piano intro and rock beat. The song is epic and has
the best guitar riff I’ve heard in a long time. Matt said he wrote the guitar part and
wanted to find a way to sing the words of Revelation 19, “All Glory and honor be unto
the Lamb, Forever and ever and ever, Amen”. Check out the song and you’ll be
hooked. Title song “Your Kingdom Come” keeps the praise and worship going in the
style of worship leaders Matt Redman, David Crowder and Delirious?.
The idea of being flexible and available to do whatever God calls us to do is what inspired
the album’s central thesis and first single, “Open Hands”. “You have to live before God
with open hands. We may have our plans and ideas, but at any moment, Christians,
unlike the world, have to be ready to drop anything and totally do something else if God
is calling us to,” Papa says. Some other highlights for me on the album are “Trinity” and
“Here Am I, Send Me.” “With ‘Here Am I, Send Me,’ it was Isaiah who uttered those
famous words after seeing The Lord, high and exalted,” Papa says. “The Church has
forgotten to pray those words for too long. It is wonderful and necessary to demonstrate
acts of kindness, service and love, but those by themselves aren’t enough. The world
must hear the Gospel. They must hear the name of Jesus. And we, the Church, must
surrender all we have and go tell them!”
Closing Thoughts:
If you like Matt Redman, David Crowder and Delirious?, then you have to check out
Matt Papa. “Hallelujah, Our God Reigns”, “Your Kingdom Come”, “Open Hands” and
“Trinity” are my favorite songs on this very solid album.
Review Written By: Kevin Davis [kevin.davis@christianmusicreview.org] Date Written: August 19, 2009
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