Top Christian Songs - October 3, 2011

Top Christian Songs

Chart for the week ending October 2, 2011.

1. "Do Everything" - Steven Curtis Chapman
2. "Move" - MercyMe
3. "Strong Enough" - Matthew West
4. "The Way" - Jeremy Camp
5. "Hold Me" - Jamie Grace ft. tobyMac
6. "Down" - Mat Kearney
7. "God Is Still God" - Heather Williams
8. "Orchestrated Love Song" - Burlap to Cashmere
9. "Courageous" - Casting Crowns
10. "I Lift My Hands" - Chris Tomlin

The official About.com Top 10 Christian Songs Chart is compiled by checking and averaging Christian charts from all over the U.S. such as Billboard, Cashbox and Air 1 to find the most popular songs.
 

Steven Curtis Chapman - Do Everything

Casting Crowns - Just Another Birthday (audio)

Listen to new Casting Crowns new song, "Just Another Birthday," from the upcoming album, Come To The Well, also featuring "Courageous," available October 18th.
Come To The Well is an appeal to Christians to let the "living water" of Christ well up in us, overflowing into the relationships we have around us (spouses, parents, children, neighbors, strangers), both inside the church and beyond. Inspired by the story of Jesus talking to the woman at the well, the title track illuminates the album's main theme:
"She thought she was standing by a well talking to a man, but really she was standing by a hole in the ground and she was talking to the well," frontman Mark Hall says. "We come to Jesus and we have already got our well. We have already got what we think is going to sustain us and we come to Him to bless our thing so our thing will work even better for us. Jesus isn't a sprinkle. He is life. That's the central teaching moment of the record."


Track Listing:

Pablo Says Goodbye (Group1Crew)

This is Pablo from The Crew!
I wanted to personally write this letter to our fans to make an announcement that I have stepped down from Group 1 Crew.
This past year, I have learned so much and God has done so much within me.
Now being newly married, my main priority is to build a solid foundation for my immediate ministry, which is my marriage. God has blessed me with an amazing wife that has fought with me through every battle the enemy has thrown our way, and by that I am incredibly humbled.

Pablo Villatoro
Group1Crew

Michael W. Smith Announces New Album 'GLORY'!

One of contemporary Christian music’s most enduring and beloved artists, Michael W. Smith presents the highly anticipated instrumental follow-up to his 2000 RIAA Gold-selling album, Freedom.  Titled 'Glory', the project, Smith’s 23rd career record, will be available at national retail outlets on Nov. 22.

Recorded with a 65-piece orchestra at London’s prestigious AIR Studios (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peter Gabriel, Pirates of the Caribbean, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”), Glory was arranged by Smith’s longtime friend David Hamilton and features a moving collection of original music.  Included on the album, produced by Smith, are “Glory – The Overture,” “The Patriot,” “Heroes,” “Whitaker’s Wonder,” “Redemption,” “Atonement,” “The Romance,” “The Tribute” and a larger-than-life symphonic version of “Agnus Dei.”

Smith comments, “I’ve said many times that Freedom is my favorite record, so I’m very excited to be releasing my second instrumental record.  I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.”

On the inspiration for Glory, Smith notes, “When I work with an orchestra I feel like I’m in my element. I often think of the film ‘Chariots of Fire’ and the famous quote by the film’s hero Eric Liddell. He says, ‘when I run I feel His pleasure.’  This statement encompasses my experience when I work on instrumental music.  When I’m able to see sweeping melodies and epic, cinematic songs come to fruition, it’s like I am offering a prayer to our Father in Heaven.”

Gungor - Ghosts Upon The Earth (album)

It’s an album that for me is best listened to in a candlelit room with a glass of wine.
There was a lot of work that went into this album, and a lot of subtlety that will be missed if the album is just played as background in the midst of life’s noise.
So to get the most out of this album, here’s what I recommend:  Get to a place where you can listen without distraction, and listen to the whole album one time through.
Then I recommend that you read the descriptions and interpretations of the songs on this album, keeping in mind that mine is but one interpretation, and you are free of course to have your own. I recommend this because I think it may help you recognize some of the nuances of the narrative’s direction that you may not have heard the first time through.
After that, listening to any of the songs at your leisure will be more meaningful, because the songs will be part of the larger perspective, the greater whole, if you will.
My hope is that this music will find its audience, because I think there are people out there who will connect with it in a meaningful way.  I know it does that for me.
And to those of you who are long-time fans and friends, thanks for sticking with us as we continue in this strange and quite enjoyable journey.
Gungor

Tracklisting:
1. Let There Be
2. Brother Moon
3. Crags And Clay
4. The Fall
5. When Death Dies
6. Church Bells
7. Wake Up Sleeper
8. Ezekiel
9. Vous Etes Mon Coure (You Are My Heart)
10. This Is Not The End
11. You Are The Beauty
12. Every Breath




Lyrics:
Like the waters flooding the desert
Like the sunrise showing all things
Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll
Where death dies all things live
Where it comes poor men feast
Kings fall down to their knees
When death dies all things live
All things live
Like a woman searching and finding love
Like an ocean buried and bursting forth
Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll
Where death dies all things come alive
Where it comes water’s clean
Children fed
All believe
When death dies all things live
All things live