Product Details
- Artist: Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0724359424309
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- Label: Six Step Records
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- Manufacturer: Six Step Records
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Six Step Records
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- Release Date: 2004-09-21
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- Studio: Six Step Records
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- Title: Arriving
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- UPC: 724359424309
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Product Description: Leaders make the indescribable visible. Isaiah's words, for instance, brought comfort to a defeated nation and transformed a people's imagination, empowering them to mount up with wings like eagles. Those words bear fruits today, capturing a post-modern visionary's heart, urging Chris Tomlin to call together God's people for life-renewing worship. "I feel as though we're like this landing strip in the desert for our great, incredible God to arrive on; a way for Him to come into people's lives," Tomlin says of the album's metaphorical moniker inspired in part by Isaiah 40. Tomlin's third studio record and first in two years, Arriving demonstrates a Christian's glad surrender meeting God's welcoming arms. Tomlin's undeniable energy is charismatic and contagious. Avoiding the trappings of public performance, Chris stands beside the people he serves, raising his voice to God with them so that they share God's presence together. Credited with venerable church choruses such as "Forever," "We Fall Down," and "The Wonderful Cross," Tomlin is considered one of this era's top songwriters for the church with five songs in CCLI's Top 60 and four more in the service's Top 500. With millions singing his songs weekly, Chris is recognized as a pivotal voice of today's modern expression of Christian worship. Arriving rocks with inspiring, guitar-driven pop melodies reflecting the roots traditions of Austin, Texas, where it was recorded and home to the church Tomlin co-founded, Austin Stone Community Church. The project's raw, straightforward lyrics are knotted tight with hooks as big and broad as the Lone Star state sky. Producer Ed Cash (Caedmon's Call, Kathy Mattea, Bebo Norman) brings his signature touch to the tracks, revealing that the talent pool is deeper than even the artist knew.
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Customer Reviews
Amazing
This is truly one of the best CD's I have ever listened to. This man is a gift from God. Get the CD, you will not be sorry.
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Love Chris Tomlin!
Can't go wrong with this CD. So much to love! And I'm new to Christian music---but it's all I listen to now. My young kids love to sing along as well! Definitely recommend it!
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Great inspiring music
The song Indescribable is a wonderful song for personal devotions. I find that it is uplifting and enouraging. Your Grace is Enough reminds us that we don't have to trust in ourselves alone - God is our helper in spite of our failures. Of course, How Great is our God is very good at building enthusiasm for any day. Overall, this is a very encouraging and inspiring CD.
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Splentastic!!!
I feel that this CD is splendid and fantastic!! The lyrics, the beat, the change of pace on the various numbers is just tremendous. This CD is my introduction to this artist and I'm definitley going to be a fan from now on. The words are clear and are so true and their depth of meaning has touched my soul. It's a clear example of how Christian music can compete with secular music for sound entertainment and it feeds the soul at the same time. The words of the first track are so colourful that your mind can just explode with the awesomeness of God our Creator. Keep it up Chris!!
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Very moving, pure and simple worship music
I am not an evangelical, and I have not listened to very much contemporary Christian music. I am Catholic, and I was raised with the idea that proper worship music is J.S. Bach on a big church organ. Frankly, what I have heard within the Catholic Church of efforts to bring guitars into church instead of organs has largely repulsed me; the quality of the music has usually been low, and it seems to be part and parcel of the whole liberal attack on the traditions of the Faith. And I should also add that as a Catholic, I was always raised with the idea that evangelicals in general are illiterates who know nothing about theology or larger culture.
In this context, Chris Tomlin's music has been a revelation to me. The musical style is clearly contemporary. He uses the ordinary instruments of a soft rock band. What makes the music electrifying is its power, directness and passion. Virtually every song on this album is like a clear mountain spring. I find it hard to say which of the songs I like best. "Mighty is the Power of the Cross" is perhaps my favorite. Very simple, very powerful. And while I have not done an analysis of the theology involved, I heard nothing that in any way troubled me as a question of doctrine. On the contrary, other than the absence of any worship of the Virgin or the saints, Tomlin's understanding of the Faith seemed very orthodox to me.
I think that Tomlin's music could be a very powerful instrument in the ecumenical movement for Christian unity. When I hear the power of this music, I could care less about the theological differences between evangelicals and the Church; it just fills me with a sense of the joy and majesty of our common faith.
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