Passion: Hymns Ancient & Modern [Enhanced]

Passion Worship Band, Passion, Christy Nockels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Six Step Records
• ASIN: B0001BS3KW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,728 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Songs That Magnify Our Holy God, October 28, 2004

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Roy Ingle "The Seeking Disciple" (Lexington, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Passion: Hymns Ancient & Modern (Audio CD)

While I appreciate some of the music that has been coming out of the Praise & Worship movement over the past few years, some of it is simply poor theology and too man-centered. That is not the case in this CD by Passion. The hymns of old and new are blended together and yet all glory and honor is given to our holy God in this collection. While traditionalist will not enjoy the upbeat tempo of some of the hymns, the modernist will enjoy the music as well as the God-honoring words of the great hymns of the faith.

What a relief to see the classic hymns coming back. So many younger pastors are seeing the need to glorify God and not just draw a crowd by using music. How we need biblical songs to come back and draw us near to our God in holiness and awe. Thanks Passion for doing this with this CD.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I adore it, April 26, 2004

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Josh Daniels "jd83" (Maple Grove, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Passion: Hymns Ancient & Modern (Audio CD)

I have been waiting for a CD like this for years. Having grown up in a conservative church environment, I have always had an affinity for the hymns that we sang in my youth in the old stuffy church that lacked AC. I connect with God through them not only because of the link to my past, but also because they are much more musically and lyrically deep than many of today's worship songs.

The problem is that until this release from Passion, most hymn compilations that I had encountered were directed more towards the "mature" crowd (e.g. major usage of pipe organs or cheesy background vocals.) This release marries the old songs that I love with artists I have grown to love from other Passion CDs, including David Crowder, Chris Tomlin, and Charlie Hall.

These renditions are amazing, and I am still getting tingleys on my fourth or fifth listen to the CD. The new approach to these classic songs breathes new life into them, and if you loved "Take My Life (and Let It Be)" before, wait until you hear it now. I feel spent after listening to the CD.

I do have a minor complaint in the song selection, because there are a couple songs that I have not even heard of before on this disc, which are taking the place of other songs that I would love to hear. But I am hoping that this becomes a series that will breathe the same new life into several other of my old favorites. And this small complaint does not detract from the feeling of awe that I have had with this worship experience.

If you love hymns and you love the previous work of Passion artists, you will love this disc.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great CD for learning to appreciate the new (and the old), May 24, 2004

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arabic_student "thesquog" (Seattle, WA USA (at the moment)) - See all my reviews

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Or "A View from the Other Side"

To explain why I like this CD, I have to give some of my background: I grew up in a hymn-singing church (organ, piano and maybe a trumpet or two on Easter) and have spent the last four years at college going to a church where they sing only psalms with no instruments (As a side note, as shocking as such a church may sound to some, I've never seen a congregation who loved singing and loved *what* they were singing more than that group of people. I have really grown in my knowledge and appreciation of the worship of God and the psalms, not to mention the improvement in my singing skills).

In any case, as I move on to another part of the country, I'm faced with the decision of where to worship, and as a result, HOW to worship. I guess I'm a "not-so-old fogey" because I really like the old stuff and have trouble appreciating/liking new music, Christian or otherwise, whatever I may think of the theology behind it (the theology of worship, that is), which, by the way, I'm still working on understanding.

All this is to say that this CD is great for anyone who's grown up on the great hymns of the past but is interested in giving the new styles a chance. The words and (for the most part) tunes in this CD are familiar favorites from the past with all their lyrical beauty and depth, but with the musical and vocal stylings of the present. For someone like myself who struggles with a knee-jerk reaction of dislike to the bulk of contemporary praise and worship music, and wonders how much of the reaction is simply personal preference and what I'm used to, and how much of it is justified, this CD is a nice bridge because I can learn to appreciate the music as I listen to my old favorite lyrics which, whether themselves justified or not, at least do not produce a knee-jerk reaction. It's also great to be able to listen to them in the setting of my living room instead of wondering about all these issues while trying to worship at church. And in the meantime, work on my theological study. :)

This CD is the product of what seems to be an encouraging trend of trying to understand Christianity in today's "postmodern" world by looking to the classic foundations, beliefs, practices, and products (such as creeds and hymns) of the historical church, instead of just adapting to whatever the pop culture of the day is. By the way, if you're interested in learning more about that, one book I'm reading now that seems to have a lot of interesting insight into this trend is "Ancient-Future Faith" by Robert Webber. I don't agree with all of it, but I have learned a lot so far, and have been challenged in many areas.

Looking from the perspective of the "modern" worshipper (which I realize is probably the majority of people reading this), this CD would also be a nice bridge for those who have grown up with the contemporary style and have a knee-jerk reaction to anything old. Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, and the other artists are all top-notch singers and writers who have written many other popular worship songs of their own, and they do a great job with this CD. I do agree with others who are a little disappointed by "How Great Thou Art". A lot of the power of that hymn is lost by upping the beat and giving it a poppy feel.

In conclusion, although my quest of finding out how to really worship in spirit and in truth is far from over, this CD has at least been a part of helping me get started by showing me that old and new are not necessarily incompatible and by encouraging me that the past has not been forgotten.