Today - Brian Doerksen [Import]

Brian Doerksen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 2004)
• Original Release Date: August 10, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Integrity Music
• ASIN: B0002GY0IA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,841 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #2 in Music > Imports > Christian & Gospel

Track Listings

1. Today (As For Me And My House)

2. Everlasting

3. You Are Everything (Everything I Need)

4. The River

5. My Redeemer (Into My Father’s House)

6. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

7. Fortress 144

8. Refiner’s Fire

9. Lead Us Lord (Dream Again)

10. Creation Calls

11. MEDLEY: Faithful Father, Your Faithfulness

12. Great Is Thy Faithfulness

13. Hear From Heaven (2 Chronicles 7:14)

14. I See The Cross

15. Today (As For Me And My House) Reprise

Editorial Reviews

From the writer of "Come, Now Is the Time to Worship" comes a worship experience that stirs all senses. Recorded LIVE in Brian Doerksen’s hometown of Abbotsford, British Columbia, TODAY captures a myriad of worship expressions, with a 75-voice community chorus, a children’s choir, 12-piece orchestra and the Mennonite Jazz Committee. The result is a rich body of worship from riveting anthems to classic hymns that reveal God’s grace and strength.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ambitious, passionate work of art, October 11, 2004

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Francis King "Frank King" (Calgary, AB, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Today - Brian Doerksen (Audio CD)

Until the last few years, Doerksen was mostly known for penning such brilliant worship classics as Refiner's Fire and Halleluiah You're Love Is Amazing, both sung in many evangelical Christian churches. He only stepped into the performing spotlight with You Shine, an excellent live-in-concert worship recording made in Ireland a few years ago.

As followups go, Today is a slam-dunk, over-the-top success.

Basing the project on the Old Testament passage Nehemiah 4, Doerksen brought in all kinds of special guests (such as the Mennonite Jazz Committee for an inspiring, light jazz treatment of Great Is Thy Faithfulness) and did duets on several tracks to create a rather humblingly ambitious work of art.

This is a quieter recording than You Shine, but carries as much, if not more of an emotional/spiritual wallop. His arrangments are always interesting and his melodies never fail to hold my interest. And check out the liner notes! Each song has a little essay with it, so this project is as much fun to read as it is to listen to.

And, As if writing and arranging this material and setting up a concert isn't enough, he also put together a DVD. Man, the guy is ambitious, but it all works very well.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A journey into the presence of God, October 7, 2004

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Roger Boon (Llandudno,Wales,UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Today - Brian Doerksen (Audio CD)

I watched on DVD rather than just listened to this album.It was the most inspirational experience of worship I have ever entered into through a media form. Beware of watching and listening to it,if you don't want to be changed. Brian Doerkson and the Christians in his community take us into the loving but challenging presence of the Creator God who gave us his Son to be our model.It is a journey into intimacy that calls us to stand and build the foundations and walls of a life that will last for ever because it is rooted in the eternal values of God.The quality of the musicianship was superb and the total lack of ego truly humbling.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from canada with love, March 5, 2005

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Donald T. Wardlow "donald t wardlow" (Myrtle Beach area, sc usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Today - Brian Doerksen (Audio CD)

Why Brian Doerksen isn't better known in this country is beyond me. It's lucky our church music director has a broad reach. we do all the first five tracks, track 10 and 14. "to-day," "Everlasting," and "The River," are my favorites on this album "the River," especially, puts me in mind of Michael Martin Murphey at his best. What a treatment he could give this one if he wanted to. If I knew there was music like this back in the '80s, I might not have wobbled down the road to destruction for as long as I did before seeing how far out of bounds I was wobbling. This is one of the CD's I play when I need to remind myself to keep to the straight and narrow, and not do what's easier, and deadlier.