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7/18/2008
CD Review: Big Daddy Weave - What Life Would Be Like
Cles Holbrook
12/4/2007
CD Review: MercyMe - All That is Within Me
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CD Review: Bebo Norman - Christmas from the Realms of Glory
Jaymey Hardin
11/6/2007
CD Review: Tree63 - Sunday!
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10/30/2007
CD Review: Sara Groves - Tell Me What You Know
Elizabeth Chan
10/25/2007
CD Review: Jars of Clay - Christmas Songs
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10/23/2007
CD Review: Steven Curtis Chapman - This Moment
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10/23/2007
CD Review: David Crowder Band - Remedy
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10/23/2007
CD Review: Connersvine
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10/17/2007
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10/11/2007
CD Review: Thousand Foot Krutch - The Flame in All of Us
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10/3/2007
CD Review: Grey Holiday – Glorious Revolution
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CD Review: Fee - We Shine
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CD Review: Phil Wickham – Cannons
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10/1/2007
CD Review: Building 429 – Iris to Iris
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9/26/2007
CD Review: BarlowGirl - How Can We Be Silent
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8/28/2007
CD Review: Shane & Shane - Pages
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8/28/2007
CD Review: Casting Crowns - The Altar and the Door
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8/28/2007
CD Review: Caedmon's Call - Overdressed
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7/31/2007
CD Review: Mandisa
7/30/2007
CD Review: Jake Smith
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CD Review: BarlowGirl - How Can We Be Silent?
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CD Review: Project 86
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CD Review: Storyside:B
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6/27/2007
CD Review: Mike Farris
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David Crowder talks about "Remedy"
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5/29/2007
CD Review: Rush of Fools
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5/16/2007
CD Review: Newsboys GO Remixed
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Ellie Carpenter
5/10/2007
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4/17/2007
CD Review: Vicky Beeching; Painting the Invisible
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4/2/2007
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2/22/2007
CD Review: tobyMac - Portable Sounds
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2/22/2007
CD Review: tobyMac - Portable Sounds
Timothy Gerst
12/20/2006
CD Review: GRITS - Redemption
Timothy Gerst
12/20/2006
CD Review: Third Day - Christmas Offerings
Elizabeth Chan
12/15/2006
CD Review: Michael W. Smith - Stand
12/6/2006
CD Review: Unexpected Gifts: 12 New Sounds of Christmas
Elizabeth Chan
12/4/2006
CD Review: Kutless - Live From Portland
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12/4/2006
CD Review: Avalon - Faith: A Hymns Collection
Aaron Chambers
11/7/2006
CD review: Michael W. Smith - Stand
Suzie Waltner
10/11/2006
cd review: Chris Tomlin - See The Morning
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cd review: Falling Up - Exit Lights
8/23/2006
CD Review: Day of Fire - Cut and Move
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8/18/2006
CD Review: Hillsong - Mighty to Save
John Brandon
8/15/2006
CD Review: Turn Off the Stars -
Brett Wier
6/28/2006
CD Review: Jason Morant - Open
Robert W. Blake
6/19/2006
CD Review: David Crowder Band - B Collision: The Eschatology of Bluegrass
Jeremy Koering
6/6/2006
CD Review: Day of Fire - Cut and Move
Jeremy Koering
6/6/2006
CD Review: Red - End of Silence
Jeremy Koering
6/6/2006
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Jeremy Koering
5/24/2006
CD Review: Brenton Brown - Everlasting God
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5/24/2006
CD Review: Building 429 - Rise
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5/24/2006
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5/24/2006
CD Review: Hyper Static Union - Lifegiver
Jeremy Koering
5/24/2006
CD Review: Hawk Nelson - Smile, It's the End of the World
Jeremy Koering
5/24/2006
CD Review: Elventyseven - Land of Fake Will Believe
Jeremy Koering
5/24/2006
CD Review: Starfield - Beauty in the Broken
Jeremy Koering
3/23/2006
CD Review: Kutless - The Hearts Of The Innocent
John Brandon
3/13/2006
CD Review: Lonely Hearts - Paper Tapes
John Brandon
3/10/2006
CD Review: Caedmon's Call - In The Company Of Angels II
3/3/2006
Review: Shawn McDonald - Ripen
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Review: Caedmon's Call - In The Company Of Angels: The World Will Sing
Jeremy Koering

Review: Ana Laura - Ana Laura
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Review: Warren Barfield - Reach
Jeremy Koering
3/3/2006
Review: Sanctus Real - The Face Of Love
Jeremy Koering
3/3/2006
Review: needtobreathe - Daylight
John Brandon
3/3/2006
Review: Mainstay - Well Meaning Fiction
John Brandon
3/3/2006
Review: The Fold - This Too Shall Pass
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Review: Rebecca St. James - If I Had One Chance To Tell You
John Brandon
3/21/2006
CD Review: Kutless - The Hearts of the Innocent
Jeremy Koering
CD Review: Steven Curtis Chapman - This Moment - Dan Taylor - 10/23/2007

Artist: Steven Curtis Chapman
Album: This Moment
Rating: 4 out of 5

On his latest CD, entitled, This Moment, Steven Curtis Chapman felt God called him to “Just write what you know.” On this, his sixteenth studio release, fans get a lot of what they’ve come to expect from Steven Curtis Chapman: a mixture of serious and catchy tunes about life, love, and family.

On this album, Steven encourages us to embrace the beauty of each moment in a world where everything seems to be in fast forward. This idea is expressed best in the track, Miracle of the Moment: “We are who and where and what we are for now. And this is the only moment we can do anything about. So breathe it in and breathe it out. Listen to your heartbeat. There's a wonder in the here and now.” The theme of the album is also found sprinkled throughout as in the song Cinderella, in which Chapman sings about the precious time spent between a father and his daughter. Musically, the album has a wide range of styles from ballads, to pop, to pop rock. Beyond the sure-fire hits mentioned above, Something Crazy is a solid, upbeat tune, in the vein of Dive, from the Speechless album.

There’s very little to take issue with here, but the song order does seem a bit off. While, I understand Miracle of the Moment being the first track because it introduces the album’s theme, it would have been nice to have some of the more upbeat numbers toward the beginning of the record. Songs like, Something Crazy, Children of God, and You are Being Loved should not be buried on the second half of This Moment. Beyond that complaint, this is perhaps Chapman’s best release since 2001’s Declaration. Chapman could win a few more Dove Awards with this release (as if we didn’t know that already).

Dan Taylor