David Leonard/Integrity Music album “The Wait” on WorshipTeam

David Leonard has released “The Wait” through Integrity Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “The Wait” is a studio recording of some great new songs.

In early 2017, singer, songwriter and worship leader David Leonard was in Los Angeles for a career pinnacle, walking the red carpet as a GRAMMY® Awards nominee for his work with acclaimed worship duo All Sons & Daughters. It was a professional high during a personal low for David who was struggling through a season of anxiety, depression and heartache amidst questions and unanswered prayers. Hoping for clarity, he headed out the next day on a solitary, soul-searching road trip home to Tennessee.

It was late into his first night and he was driving through the desolate Mojave Desert when he began to see a light in the distance. At first, he thought he was nearing a city but realized as he drove closer, it was the moon breaking over the horizon and heralding what would be a breakthrough for him. “I felt like God just threw on this big flashlight and said, ‘I see you’,” he recalls. “I immediately felt acknowledged and seen.”

What David had thought would take an entire journey, happened in the first night with that moment turning out to be the moment he was longing for. With still so many stops to make along the way and despite the still unanswered prayers, he was already filled with life. It was a welcome reprieve following a seemingly endless wait.

“Everybody says ‘you’ll find God in the Grand Canyon’… and I did,” he says of the cross-country trek. “It was a sweet time, but it was nothing like when He met me in the desert.”

Back home and with a renewed sense of peace, David set out to creatively remain in the background as he wrote and produced from his studio near Nashville and All Sons & Daughters ended their season of recording and touring together. All the while, he continued working through the issues that had plagued him, including the bitter road of infertility that he and his wife had been walking. Along the way, he noticed that his experiences were surfacing in the songs he was writing for other artists. And those songs had begun weaving together his own story of heartache and redemption that would eventually become The Wait (Integrity Music), his first solo album in an almost two-decade career.

“I started looking over all these songs I’d been writing with other people, and thought, ‘These are my songs,’” Leonard recalls of realizing he’d unintentionally penned the album. “I wrote this record feeling no pressure to have to create some grand thing. I just got to write and have fun and enjoy it; and then all of a sudden, I had a record. As a writer, it was a really freeing place.”

Sonically, the album is a departure from the organic, acoustic-driven melodies that made All Sons & Daughters so beloved. Instead, The Wait feels like a beautiful combination of all three of David’s previous bands – – Jackson Waters, NEEDTOBREATHE and All Sons & Daughters.

“I think it’s going to catch people off guard,” he admits, “and that’s a good thing. It would’ve been a lot easier if I’d just made another All Sons & Daughters record, sonically. There was that worry of thinking, ‘If you want to succeed, you should just do what you’ve been doing.’ But that didn’t feel right to me. I knew I needed to do what the record was calling for and go in a different direction. There’s a playful side to me and I’m excited for people to see it.”

Lyrically, The Wait doesn’t stray from the vulnerability of David’s previous work. If anything, the collection’s 13 tracks are even more transparent, the themes more universal—all born out of personal experience. “I’ve always been the kind of guy who’s not afraid to talk about the things he’s walking through,” he says. “I don’t know if this is a Sunday morning record… maybe it’s more of a weekday record. But it is for worshipers. It’s for anyone who’s been in that desert place looking for signs of life.”

Still, some of the songs have already resonated with David’s home congregation, Journey Church, as he’s led them on Sunday mornings. The confessional “Know Your Heart” seeks to fully explore the heart of God, while the Psalm-like “You Know Me” ponders how a perfect God could possibly love His fallible children.

Meanwhile, “I Will Wait” chronicles the Leonards’ battles with infertility. After many years of prayerful waiting, daughter Ella Kate was born. Then, the couple experienced more waiting and a devastating miscarriage before finally welcoming their newest addition, daughter River, whose name is joyfully written into the song’s second verse: “Oh, the burdens that I’ve carried. They are heavy, oh too heavy to hold. But there’s a River. There’s a sunrise. There’s a new day and it’s bringing new life.”

“It’s the struggle of the wait,” David says of the track. “Every month for four years was a constant letdown and disappointment and probably the hardest thing my wife and I had ever walked through.”

“Share The Burden” timestamps the moment the couple knew they needed help in the midst of their journey and speaks to the greater need for community by everyone, no matter the nature of our burdens. The couple set out to intentionally find others to support them through their never-ending grief, and that network of people made all the difference.

Like many prolific songs do, lead single “Threads” came at the eleventh hour. After the record was finished, a candid conversation over breakfast with fellow songwriters Ethan Hulse and Andrew Ripp, led to the birth of the textured track. “The idea was just the unraveling of who we are and who we think we should be and what God has for us,” David explains. “In the grand scheme of things, the more we can surrender, and the more we can turn ourselves off, the better. Our unraveling is spurred by fear; it’s spurred on by anxiety, but then it’s wrapped up in a love that casts out all those things.”

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Cody Gentes

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Local Sound/Integrity Music album “Sunday School” on WorshipTeam

Local Sound has released “Sunday School” through Integrity Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Sunday School” is a recording of some great new songs.

True to the title, Sunday School takes five of the group’s favorite worship songs from their childhoods recorded with Local Sound’s pop worship spin.
Featuring some of the trio’s treasured worship songs like Darlene Zschech’s “Shout To The Lord” and Paul Baloche’s “Open The Eyes Of My Heart”.

“I grew up listening to these songs,” shares Local Sound’s Emily Wyant. “They are truly the soundtrack of my childhood. Though hundreds of new and wonderful worship songs have been released since then, these songs remind me of the childlike faith I am meant to live from. A faith that is purely based on worship and adoration of God without asking for anything in return. I am honored to be a part of a project that recognizes the beauty and importance of these songs.”

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Jon Egan/Integrity Music album “Unveil” on WorshipTeam

Jon Egan has released “Unveil” through Integrity Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Unveil” is a live recording of some great new songs.

Egan, Who Has Chosen Faith Over Fear, Looks To Worship As The Way Through After Decades Of Anxiety Struggles.

“This album is for the weak because it was made by the weak, it’s for the broken because it was made by the broken.” Worship leader and songwriter Jon Egan has battled depression and anxiety for most of his life and knows firsthand what it means to bring a sacrifice of praise. With new album Unveil, through Integrity Music, the former lead singer of Desperation Band invites listeners to do the same, singing God’s promises over and through their own struggles.

Egan, a worship leader for New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been crafting songs of praise and worship for his own congregation and the global church for almost 20 years, including favorites “I Am Free,” “Overcome,” “Strong God,” “Make A Way” and “On The Throne.” Throughout that time, he has struggled with an internal war. In fact, it was an anxiety attack that inspired one of his new songs, “Everlasting Joy,” that Egan said he wrote as he “worshiped out of that situation.”

“Sometimes, I write what I most need to sing,” he says. “Worship is often a defiant act. It becomes a weapon to declare what you know will be, even if it isn’t yet… standing face-to-face with the fear and darkness but instead of describing what you see, you declare what you know, choosing faith over fear. It’s the singing and declaring of that truth that lifts you out of despair.”

The whole of Unveil is filled with a sense of joy from the “knowing” even in the most raw moments of worship and prayer found within the project’s 13 tracks, and amidst the sounds of weeping from Egan and his church family. Recorded live across a variety of services at New Life and the church’s 2018 Desperation youth conference, Unveil reveals a worship leader and a church reawakened to revival and alive to the promise found in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10: “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness…”.

“We made it live, we kept it live… much of the vocals are completely raw,” says Egan. “It is as it happened and it’s filled with ministry moments for worshipers and worship leaders alike. You’re hearing real people playing and singing, real people who are in their journey of the in-between, between death and resurrection, people who are in the waiting, in the groaning. People who can help others know they are not alone and that Jesus is there.”

“I hope this album helps my generation and those above me remember and helps a new generation to discover that worship can’t exist outside the cries of desperate people,” he continues. “It’s about the priesthood of all the believers raising up a song. And as worship leaders, it’s our responsibility to help give people their song back.”

In addition to “Everlasting Joy,” tracks such as “Be Strong,” “What You Said,” “The Table,” “This Changes Everything” and “Glorify” all point listeners to the promises of scripture and unveil a living God who is provider, refuge, healer and savior. The complete tracklist for Unveil, which includes guest cowriters Jacob Sooter, Jason Ingram, Mitch Wong, Chris McClarney and Mia Fieldes

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Luke + Anna Hellebronth/Integrity Music album “Motions Of Mercy” on WorshipTeam

Luke + Anna Hellebronth has released “Motions Of Mercy” through Integrity Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Motions Of Mercy” is a recording of some great new songs.

Produced by Jimmy James, Motions Of Mercy includes songs penned by the Hellebronths with guest writers including Matt Maher, Nick Herbert, Josh Gauton, Ben Cantelon, Brenton Brown, Eby Corydon (LIFE Worship), Jonas Myrin and St. Luke’s Gas Street lead pastor, Tim Hughes.

The project is woven around themes of God’s mercy, grace and salvation and “the great depth and cost of the love of God,” says Luke Hellebronth, writer of “Spirit Break Out.” Anna continues, “Songs such as ‘All for Love (Gethsemane),’ a picture of Christ’s sacrifice, and ‘Arrow,’ inspired by the writings of 14th century theologian Nicholas Kabasilas (‘The Life In Christ’), continue to explore the topic.”

“We are overwhelmed and yet deeply affronted by the love of God,” explains Anna. “It bears truth, which can pierce our hearts, while giving us freedom. God’s love challenges every fibre of our ‘humanness’… it leave its mark.”

Luke adds that the project takes its title from lyrics of new song “See Me Through” as a direct acknowledgement that “God’s mercy is the thread running through the highs and lows of all we encounter.”

Alongside these concepts is what the Hellebronths call “a prophetic cry of holy dissatisfaction” found in songs “Revive Us (Heavy Rain)” and “Kingdom of God.”

“Our cry and our prayer is that the Holy Spirit would revive and awaken us again to the call of God that He is partnering with us to bring His Kingdom here on earth, His majesty and reign of love,” explains Luke. “There are always new depths to discover… never stop looking and never let your passion for Jesus be secondary. Keep stoking the fire,” the Hellebronths add.

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Cody Gentes

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Hillsong Worship single “King Of Kings” on WorshipTeam

Hillsong Worship has released “King Of Kings” through Hillsong Church and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “King Of Kings is a live recording of some great new songs.

“The story of the Gospel should never be treated or viewed as a relic – no matter how reverently one might err in that direction. No, the Gospel is a NOW reality that requires a NOW response. With origins before time and echoes beyond it, it stands at the intersection of eternity and our every-day present and beckons, urges, demands us to look. Look at the Christ, the Son of God – bloodied for your sin and the sin of all humanity – repent and believe and take your place in the Story of all stories – the story of the King of Kings.”

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed – a righteousness that is by faith from first to last.” – Romans 1:16-17

– Brooke Ligertwood

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Housefires Music album “Housefires V” on WorshipTeam

Housefires has released “Housefires V” through Housefires Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Housefires V” is a live recording of some great new songs.

OUR HOPE IS THAT THESE SONGS WOULD SPARK FIRES THAT BURN BRIGHT IN ORDINARY HOUSES ALL OVER THE WORLD. THAT YOU WOULD BE AWAKE TO GOD IN EVERY PART OF YOUR LIFE…THE POLISHED AND THE ORDINARY.

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Cody Gentes

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Elevation Worship/Elevation Worship Records album “Paradoxology” on WorshipTeam

Elevation Worship has released “Paradoxology” through Elevation Worship Records and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Paradoxology” is a recording of some great new songs.

Paradoxology is a reimagined album from Elevation Worship, with fresh takes on the songs from their latest album Hallelujah Here Below like “Here Again,” “Echo,” and “Won’t Stop Now.” Paradoxology also includes their new single, “With You.”

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Cody Gentes

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For All Seasons/Centricity Music album “Every Good Thing” on WorshipTeam

For All Seasons has released “Every Good Thing” through Centricity Music and the song is now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Every Good Thing” is a recording of a great new song

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Samuel Lane/Vineyard Worship single “God Of Our Mothers And Fathers” on WorshipTeam

Vineyard Worship has released “God Of Our Mothers And Fathers” featuring Samuel Lane and the song is now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “God Of Our Mothers And Fathers” is a studio recording of a great new song.

God of our mothers and fathers
Come now and move among us
What you did before
Come and do once more
We want to be a part of your story….
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Featuring the raw, magnetic voice of Samuel Lane (More Than Anything, Saved), the latest single, “God Of Our Mothers And Fathers” is a powerful prophetic word for the Church at this moment.
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Elias Dummer/Integrity Music album “The Work, Vol 1” on WorshipTeam

Elias Dummer has released “The Work, Vol 1” through Integrity Music and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “The Work, Vol 1” is a recording of some great new songs.

An Ontario native and Tennessee resident, Dummer is passionate about the local church, drawing inspiration from his roots with TCH, a band birthed from a local church unity movement, and from his role in helping to plant The Village, a fast-growing UMC community near Nashville.

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Cody Gentes

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