When Rend Collective release new songs they’re worth a listen. Good tunes, stirring lyrics, singable. Revival Anthem is self-consciously significant. It’s not triumphalistic, despite the music. It expresses faith in God’s power to work in the lives of His people. The only thing it lacks is an explicit mention Jesus and that the declaration of …

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Rend Collective’s Boldly I Approach works better than I thought it would at first. The lyrics are as thoughtful and strong as most of their output. And their folk-music styling makes it accessible to sing. The lyrics: 1 By grace alone somehow I stand Where even angels fear to tread Invited by redeeming love Before …

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Resurrection Day demonstrates Rend Collective’s clever lyrical skill in expressing familiar truths in fresh ways. I think it balances the eternal spiritual dimension of salvation with the lived out present dimension of the Christian life without bringing the wrong aspects of eternity in to this life (prosperity gospel) or the wrong aspects of this life …

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