Released 15 years ago today, this is the 13th album from worship collective Passion, which mostly records live albums at Passion Conferences. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Passion introduced me and many others to modern worship music, stadium pop/rock songs that might also work at church services for prayer and praise. As the 2000s wore on, Passion albums seemed to be more rote and less mind-blowing for me, so I really stopped listening to their newer albums. It also seemed like it was just a place for Chris Tomlin and a few others in the collective to release live versions of their top hits, which was a bit too self-serving for my tastes. However, I took a look at this album for a few highlights. David Crowder Band released a new song "Sometimes" on this album, and his version of "Shadows" here included a bridge with a rap from Lecrae which is fun. And a few years after this album released, one of my favorite artists, Martin Smith of the band delirious?, released his first solo album and it had his version of "Waiting Here For You", which is sung beautifully on this Passion album by Watermark's Christy Nockels and that caused me to give this album another look. "Lord, I Need You" is a great anthem as well, co-written by Matt Maher, a songwriter/artist I also respect. I don't listen to most of this album too often as it's too much Chris Tomlin for my tastes, but I do like the tracks mentioned above and listen to them regularly. The rest of the album isn't actually too bad either, now that I'm listening to it.

Release Year: 2011
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