City on a Hill: Songs of Worship & Praise

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Essential
• ASIN: B00004W5J9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,657 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #8 in Music > Christian > Compilations > Contemporary Christian

Track Listings

1. God of Wonders - Mac Powell

2. The Stone - Jars Of Clay

3. With Every Breath - Leigh Nash

4. I Remember You - Gene Eugene

5. Precious Jesus - Leigh Nash

6. You're Here - Sixpence None The Richer

7. Where You Are - FFH

8. Merciful Rain - FFH

9. Unified - Sonicflood

10. Covenant Song - Caedmon's Call

11. City on a Hill - Third Day

12. Marvelous Light - Gene Eugene

13. This Road - Jars Of Clay

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Though early this is probably the best worship CD of 2000, August 28, 2000

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Robert A. Terrell - See all my reviews

This review is from: City on a Hill: Songs of Worship & Praise (Audio CD)

Recently there has been a trend of various artists working together and producing compilation worship albums. Some of these compilations have been tremendous (for example, "Exodus") while others have fallen far short of expectations. "City on a Hill" is one of the compilations that works. The entire album is extremely worshipful in a "Sixpence None the Richer" / "Caedmon's Call" style. There are new songs from Third Day, Sixpence None The Richer, FFH, Jars of Clay, and then compilation songs from The Choir, Sonic Flood, Peter Furler (Newsboys), and the late Gene Eugene. The songs work well together, flowing both in lyrical theme and music style. If you are a fan of any of the artists the CD is well worth getting but it also stand alone as a superb worship album.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mellow, but strong collaborative effort, August 17, 2001

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D. Keating (Bristow, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City on a Hill: Songs of Worship & Praise (Audio CD)

I bought this CD based on the list of artists who participated in the project. Although the album is more mellow than I expected, overall, I was impressed with it. The concept for the album is interesting...bringing together modern Christian artists to collaborate and write new worship songs. If you think about it, that is a pretty big challenge given the diversity of artists and groups on this album. Luckily, they pull it off very well.

The songs I liked most on the album are "God of Wonders", "The Stone","With Every Breath", "Merciful Rain", and "City on a Hill". The others are good, but most are a little softer than I typically like.

I recommend this CD to anyone looking for an album full of good (and mellow) worship songs. If you are looking for an album of modern Christian worship songs that will get your blood pumping this is not the best album to get. But, if you enjoy a more acoustic approach to worship music, you will most likely enjoy this album.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome cd and awesome worship cd, August 28, 2000

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H. COMBS (JEFFERSONTOWN, KENTUCKY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City on a Hill: Songs of Worship & Praise (Audio CD)

"City on a Hill" is an awesome CD produced by Steve Hindalong, percussionist and chief lyricist of The Choir. The recording features collaborative efforts by outstanding artists such as Caedmon's Call, Jars of Clay, Sixpence None the Richer, Third Day, FFH and The Choir. Leigh Nash, vocalist for Sixpence, opens the CD with a lovely prelude on "God of Wonders." This track written by Marc Byrd and Hindalong also features terrific vocals by Mac Powell (Third Day) and Cliff and Danielle Young (Caedmon's Call). Byrd also penned "With Every Breath," a song of hope and encouragement, which features Nash and Dan Haseltine (Jars) on vocals. The late Gene Eugene appears on two tracks including "I Remember You" on which he plays the piano to Powell's stirring vocals that remind us of Christ's death and resurrection. My personal favorite of this 13-track recording is Hindalong's "Precious Jesus." Derri Daugherty (The Choir) handles the guitars, and he a Nash team up on the vocals. To hear Daugherty and Nash together is a tremendous blessing in itself, and the passion with which this number was written and performed makes it a perfect song of reflection and communion. Whether you regularly invest in worship CD's or not, "City on a Hill" is a recording you will find entertaining, moving, worshipful, and full of praise. This is not just a great worship recording; this is a great recording.