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Bethany Live Presents: Deluge - Live from Bethany World Prayer Center,Jonathan Stockstill

- Bethany Live Presents: Deluge - Live from Bethany World Prayer Center
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Jonathan Stockstill
Released 2008

Open Up the Sky
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6,366 plays

Crazy
00:00
6,316 plays

Worshiping You
00:00
5,633 plays

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songs

- 1
- Intro
- 00:00
- 3,166 plays

- 2
- I Believe
- 00:00
- 4,663 plays

- 3
- Make It Loud
- 00:00
- 4,171 plays

- 4
- Crazy
- 00:00
- 6,316 plays

- 5
- I Need You
- 00:00
- 5,016 plays

- 6
- Open Up the Sky
- 00:00
- 6,366 plays

- 7
- Oceans
- 00:00
- 4,019 plays

- 8
- He Is the Holy One
- 00:00
- 3,661 plays

- 9
- Worshiping You
- 00:00
- 5,633 plays

- 10
- Revolution
- 00:00
- 3,755 plays

- 11
- Lifting My Hands
- 00:00
- 3,447 plays

- 12
- Dear Jesus
- 00:00
- 3,420 plays

- 13
- Whisper His Name
- 00:00
- 4,225 plays

- 14
- Make Us Holy
- 00:00
- 3,309 plays

album review

In only two years' time, worship leader Jonathan Stockstill has gone from a soulful, cross-cultural bandleader to an alternative hipster with a flair for worship music. Deluge is his new brainchild at Bethany World Prayer Center, the church where he serves as the worship pastor. The four-piece sounds nothing like the praise band on Let the Church Rise, Bethany's first live album. Instead, Stockstill has sidestepped the big-church dynamics -- big band, big choir, big sound, big everything -- for something more youth- and rock-friendly, not unlike Hillsong United and Desperation Band. Since live, energetic expressions of praise are the big thing nowadays, Stockstill is simply going where the wind is blowing, but Deluge's self-titled debut isn't just a rehashing of current rock-worship trends. While the more downtempo numbers tend to blend with what's already out there, Deluge stands out when it's time to rock out, recalling everyone from the Police ("I Believe") and early U2 ("I Need You") to mid-‘90s Green Day ("Make It Loud") and even Mars Volta ("Crazy"). Of course, the sentiments are kept as vertical as possible, accessible enough for the thousands who attended the youth conference where the album was recorded. And that's precisely why Deluge works: it attests that it is feasible to throw worshippers a creative curveball. Overall, a very good start from this young entrant to the modern worship scene. ~ Andree Farias, All Music Guide