42 – Balmcast 2.0: Discussion of CCM News and What’s Next for the Balm in Gilead

Psalm 42

What We’ve Been Listening To

Grant

• New Newsboys song Clean. 
• Top artist: Crown & Covenant
• Others of note: 
  • Adam Young Titanic
  • Ola W Jansson album All The Things You Are
  • Leeland’s Opposite Way album
  • Matthew David Montgomery Fingerstyle Hymns
  • And also, there are a ton of good Psalm 42 songs out there. So I made a playlist.

Bryan

• Ghost Ship
• Citizens and Saints
• Kings Kaleidoscope
• The Modern Post
• The Sing Team 
• Surviving the Game – Skillet
• Donda – Kanye

Justin

• The Matts
• The Trails Church
• The SiW Playlist

CCM News

• Top 100 (Donda, Donda)
  • Not Lauren Daigle’s “You Say” (132 weeks at Number 1, last was August 7)
  • Not Anne Wilson’s “My Jesus” (4 weeks at Number 1)
  • Kanye – Hurricane (2nd week in a row at number 1)
  • In fact, 22 of the top 23 songs are on Kanye West’s new album “Donda.”
• Anne Wilson
  • Meet Anne Wilson, a 19-year-old singer behind ‘My Jesus,’ a surprise Christian hit 
  • Number 1 hit “My Jesus” 
  • Anne Wilson – My Jesus Lyrics
  • Number 1 4 weeks in a row until Kanye launched his album
• CCM Documentary: “The Jesus Music”’
  • Amy Grant hails gospel documentary ‘The Jesus Music’ en route to The Birchmere
  • The Jesus Music (2021 Movie) Official Trailer – Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant
  • The Jesus Music | Official Movie Site
  • The Jesus Music (2021)
• Brian Houston Steps Down
  • Brian Houston Steps Down From Hillsong Church Boards
  • Says he did this so that the church could operate normally while he is under investigation from allegedly covering up some misdeeds of his father back in the 70’s
  • Retains post as “Global Sr. Pastor”
• Psallos’ album Philippians drops this October!
• Slacker Spencer Parsons has the first proof-of-concept track putting Proverbs to EDM style music. It’s actually pretty cool and you can check it out on the Balm in Gilead channel on the Tech Reformation Slack workspace by sending us an email at There Is at Balmcast dot com.

What’s Ahead for the Podcast this season

Good stuff! Listen in…

Thanks for listening

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