Doug Van Pelt

Chris Tomlin CD Stuck In Car Stereo - Film at 11

For the past few days I've had the new Chris Tomlin CD stuck in my car stereo. This sort of thing doesn't happen to me often. It's not rockin' or hard in any way that we'd cover in the pages of HM Magazine. The songs are good and engaging at the beginning, middle and the end of the CD. And when it finishes and goes back to track one, those songs sounds so good that I don't want to take it out. I haven't been a fan of most of the generic cCm worship music that's been coming out of the Christian music industry, as it sounds formulaic, plastic, shallow, and wanting musically. But this album's songs are wooing me.

There's an added dimension to worship that is hard to explain. It's almost charismatic, but it's not an exclusive emotion monopolized by a single stream of the body of Christ. The tunes are almost washing over me and lifting my attitude. They make it easy to praise God. I bet this album is going to be popular amongst his fans.

It's been hard to blog lately, partly because I've been feeling like dirt. Maybe I picked up a bug on the airplane flight last Saturday. Who knows? Hopefully, like my African neighbors might say: "Tomorrow will hopefully be a better day."