NEW WORSHIP FRIDAY: Sarah Kroger & Vineyard Worship
A New Reality (Deluxe)
Sarah Kroger unveils the deluxe edition of her momentous album, “A New Reality.” The new release adds five bonus tracks to her deeply personal and hope-instilling album including brand-new songs, a feature from Leeland on “Giving Up,” and a crisp radio version of “Still Yours.”
Coming back to her most vulnerable project yet with fresh perspective, Kroger sheds more light on the need to offer songs for silent strugglers, the closet doubters, and anyone who has felt alone in their spiritual battles. She achieved this by mixing reflective tunes with congregational songs, inviting listeners to the One who makes space for the intimate in the infinite. The 15-track album has an overall bright folk pop feel laced with contemplative and ethereal sounds.
With “A New Reality (Deluxe),” Kroger reaffirms that a depth of vulnerability and introspection can lead to awe at God’s mystery, not away from it. She encourages the Church to approach conversations around faith and doubt, allowing God to mend the tangled threads of one’s unraveling into a reconstructed picture again.
Whatever’s In Your Heart
Vineyard Worship releases their second live single, “Whatever’s In Your Heart,” from Dreaming The Impossible, a festival for young people from churches everywhere which grew to 4,500 this summer. Vineyard Worship leaders and songwriters Jon Solway and Beth Goodwright share their heart behind the song:
“So often we can be tempted to come into God’s presence with an agenda – a prayer we want answered, or a situation we want to change. This song is a simple prayer to God, inviting him to do whatever is in his heart and positioning ourselves to wait on him, with expectant hearts. Whatever he wants to do - we’re up for it!”
This new song echoes Scriptures such as seeking first God’s Kingdom (Matthew 6:31), hungering and thirsting for God’s presence (Psalm 63), and the intention of creating space to wait on God (Lamentations 3:24-26).