Top 100: #29 When I See the Cross (Greater Vision)

Release Year: 1997

Album Rank for Group: #5 of 13

Here’s a blurb: When I See the Cross was not the first album recorded by the mainstay Wolfe/Griffin/Waldroup lineup of Greater Vision, but it was the first with the particular type of sound that would carry the trio to new heights into the next century.  That sound was born in the pen of Rodney Griffin, who had six compositions on this project.  And it is some of his best work, including the original Greater Vision tongue-twister, “He’d Still Been God”.  Just a year or two later, Griffin would win his first Singing News Songwriter of the Year award, an award he’s won every year since.  It would not be a stretch to say it all got kick-started on When I See the Cross.

Knock my socks off: God’s Grace Is Sufficient, He’d Still Been God, ‘Til the Storm Passes By

Don’t skip that one: Common Garments, Just How Precious, The Glory Way, All the Way, When I See the Cross, I Have a Hope

I could honestly do without: The Walls Come Down