Helping him is an all-star choir including such notables as Amy Grant, Cindy Morgan, Ginny Owens, Mark Schulz, and Out of Eden.
In the process, he emphasizes the communal nature of the performance, offering a mixture of his own compositions (“Agnus Dei”) and familiar worship tunes by others (“Awesome God,” “Draw Me Close”). Recorded live at the Carpenter’s Home Church in Lakeland, Florida, the album finds Smith putting aside his singer/songwriter role in favor of service as a worship leader. Smith returned to his Christian roots on 2001’s Worship. Rather than edging further into the secular mainstream, Michael W.
