Album available November 3, 2009.
Pre-buy it here from Family Christian Stores.
SCC has been my favorite CCM musician over the last 17 years or so. In 1990 as a new artist that I had barely heard of, he came and did a concert at our high school, South Kitsap. Unfortunately the concert was cut short due to the fact that he was losing his voice. But, he stood on stage and did was I’ve seen him do so many time in later years and just spoke about his family, what he was going through and just life in general. He always seemed less of a performer and more of a “real” person.
In 1993 he did a live concert in Seattle and several of us went to the concert. We even saw a shot of ourselves as the camera panned the audience. Lots of fun being able to say, “I remember that shot!” In later years he did a mini-concert at Key Arena during a couples retreat.
I always love good music, but I especially like strong lyrical content and the benchmark for me has always been Keith Green, whose energy in his music is hard to surpass. Chapman, like many other artists took up that challenge to make his music meaningful. He always allowed much of his music to be influenced by his daily life. These songs have really touched me through the years.
Whether it is love songs like “I Will Be Here”, “Go There With You” or “11-6-64” that every time I hear them I think of my beautiful wife. There are the songs with powerful meaning of God’s promises like “Bring It On”, “All Things New”, “God Is God” and “This Day”. Or incredible worship songs that seem to come from Steven’s soul like “Moment Made for Worshiping”, “Not Home Yet” and “Yours”. Then there are the songs that tap into the deep pain that life seems to throw at us and which have made the tough times that the Chapman family has gone through recently more real, like “With Hope”, “When Love Takes You In”, “Still Called Today” and “His Strength is perfect”.
I am really looking forward to this new album from Steven. There is no one that touches the truth of the matter quite like SCC.
Steven’s website, http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/
Steven’s blog, http://chapmanchannel.typepad.com/