Jesusfreakhideout.com Music News, July 2011: HILLSONG LIVE, GOD IS ABLE, RELEASES JULY 26

HILLSONG LIVE, GOD IS ABLE, RELEASES JULY 26

20th Annual Live Recording Shares Hope Amidst a World in Turmoil, Features Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, Ben Fielding, Darlene Zschech, Hillsong UNITED

NEWS SOURCE: Hoganson Media
July 8, 2011

With more than 11 million albums sold and dozens of songs sung weekly in congregations around the world, Hillsong LIVE returns with its 20th annual recording, God Is Able, set to release July 26 on Sparrow Records. Recorded live along with thousands of worshippers gathered together at Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia, the album delivers 11 brand new anthems led by Hillsong worship team members Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston, Ben Fielding, Darlene Zschech and Hillsong UNITED, as well as international teams from London, Stockholm and Cape Town.

Each year Hillsong Church, one of the world’s fastest-growing evangelical ministries, records songs from its worship community around the world that have resonated with the church. In a year that has received its fair share of turmoil, both in Australia and around the world, with tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear disasters, tornadoes and war, God Is Able is about resourcing the Body of Christ with fresh songs of worship. It is about seeing people connect in a real and personal way with the Living God in control of the universe, encouraging hope, even in the midst of our present circumstances.

“I love this album,” says Hillsong’s Reuben Morgan, Worship Pastor, Hillsong Australia. “The songs are fresh, they are songs of faith and hope, songs that our church have really taken hold of.”

The album includes the passionate praise of “Rise,” a song by Joel Houston that speaks to the unending faithfulness of God in the midst of whatever is going on in our world, “Alive In Us,” an anthem featuring the vocals of Darlene Zschech and celebrating Jesus' ultimate victory over all death, and the album’s title track, written by Morgan and Ben Fielding, that is an upbeat and instantly singable reminder of the greatness of the One we are called to worship.

“We sat down to write ‘God Is Able’ with the words of Ephesians 3 stirring in us,” remembers Fielding. “God isn’t small enough to fit into even our grandest thoughts and plans. He is immeasurably beyond them. In our most hopeful moments, and when it’s hard to imagine a way forward, when circumstances seem so overwhelming… Our God is with us, He is for us, He will not fail or leave us.”

In addition to the CD, the God Is Able Deluxe version features two bonus songs, while the 15-song companion DVD includes the “The Scarlet Thread” bonus video, chord charts, live videos, acoustic performance videos and the International Leadership College Trailer, which is a behind-the-scenes look at Hillsong’s leadership training college.

The full God Is Able CD and DVD track listing follows:

CD:
01. Rise
02. With Us
03. Unending Love
04. The Lost Are Found
05. God Is Able
06. The Difference
07. Alive In Us
08. You Are More
09. Narrow Road
10. My Heart Is Overwhelmed
11. Cry Of The Broken

DELUXE BONUS:
01. Go
02. Awakening

DVD:
01. Rise
02. The Difference
03. With Us
04. Unending Love
05. Alive In Us
06. Narrow Road
07. My Heart Is Overwhelmed
08. Cry Of The Broken
09. Awakening
10. God In Everything
11. You Are More
12. The Lost Are Found
13. God Is Able
14. Go
15. Yours Forever

BONUS:
The Scarlet Thread (Documentary)
Hillsong International
Leadership College Trailer
Chord Charts
Live Videos
Acoustic Performance Videos

Leading Hillsong Church in corporate worship every week, Hillsong has also received multiple gold and platinum album awards while resourcing the local church with such well known worship songs as “Shout To The Lord,” “From the Inside Out,” “Hosanna,” and “The Stand.” Its song, “Mighty to Save,” penned by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding, was awarded the 2009 Dove for Worship Song of the Year and is the current No. 1 Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) song in the USA and Canada sung by an estimated 40 million people every week in church services around the world. Amazingly, Hillsong has 58 top 500 CCLI songs in the US, 74 in Canada, 124 in Australia, 101 in Singapore, 87 in South Africa, 88 in New Zealand and 26 in the UK.

About Hillsong Church:
Based in Sydney, Australia, Hillsong Church is one of the world’s fastest-growing ministries, with a 25,000-plus strong congregation in Australia, as well as one of the largest evangelical churches in London, Cape Town and Kiev. Hillsong also has churches in Stockholm and Paris, and is establishing a new church in New York City. Hillsong Music has earned 30 Gold and Platinum awards around the world.

For more information, please visit: http://live.hillsong.com