Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Women Of Faith is a powerful parachurch ministry. Since 1996 more than two million women have attended Women Of Faith events in dozens of cities across the USA. Worship music-wise they've been a key movement in empowering and encouraging women to take the lead in worship music, releasing both live recordings made at some of their events and albums like 'The Artist Collection' and 'Women Of Faith: Gospel' where well known artists from CCM and gospel sing worship songs. This double CD here is a compilation of tracks from a batch of albums, 'Sensational Life', 'Irrepressible Hope', 'Boundless Love', 'Extravagant Grace', 'Songs From The Great Adventure' and 'Bring Back The Joy'. The songs here are in the main excellent like Kathryn Scott's "At The Foot Of The Cross", Darlene Zschech's "Worthy Is The Lamb" and "My Heart, Your Home" (though on the latter Watermark's Christy Nockels is unfortunately misprinted Christ Nockels on the sleeve) and well sung if unimaginatively arranged. I couldn't help noticing though that most of the songs were written by men (Israel Houghton, Michael W Smith, Dennis Jernigan, Brian Doerksen, Lincoln Brewster, etc, etc) which seems a waste of an opportunity considering the growing number of emerging female worship songwriters such as Vicki Beeching, Rita Springer and Kate Miner. Also, there seems little reason in failing to identify who the excellent lead singers are in the Women Of Faith Worship Team.

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