Album
Review
The Road
to One Day
Passion
Star Song
From the July
2000 issue of CCM Magazine.
Passion’s third release, The Road to One Day,
leads its listeners to a place of refuge. Unlike its
previous two live recordings, Live Worship From the
268 Generation and Better Is One Day, this
is Passion’s first studio project. The result is a slightly
tighter mix that captures the sobriety of its intended
message without losing the spontaneous live feel that
is sometimes sacrificed in studio recordings.
In listening to the 12-plus cuts, there was a refreshing
absence of self-focused material. The result is a serious
(not to be confused with ponderous) acknowledgment of
one’s overwhelming need for mercy and grace from a loving,
yet holy God.
Standouts include such Passion standards as "Did You
Feel the Mountains Tremble" (Matt Redman) and "Shout
to the North" (Charlie Hall). Watermark’s Christy Nockels
invokes a passionate call for prayer in "Holy Roar,"
while Chris Tomlin ("The Noise We Make") introduces
us to a rocker amplifying the worldwide gathering of
believers at the throne of God. Surprises come from
John Catchings’ "Prelude" string arrangement, various
spoken confessionals over several music introductions
and the bonus cut, "Sing Like the Saved," led by Steve
Fee.
—Dan
Millheim
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