Top 100: #13 Far Beyond This Place (Greater Vision)

Release Year: 1999

Album Rank for Group: #3 of 13

Here’s a blurb: With nearly a decade of service in the books, Greater Vision was already one of the most established and popular groups on the road in 1999.  But their landmark album release that year propelled them “far beyond” what they had experienced before.  Their debut release for Daywind Records (whom they still record for today), it won them their first of five (and counting) Singing News Fan Awards for Album of the Year.  It also contained the first two of their four Songs of the Year (“My Name Is Lazarus” and “Just One More Soul”), and was released in the year that they won their first of eight Trio of the Year awards.  The sweeping arrangements were recorded a la Symphony of Praise by the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and Hungarian Radio Symphony.  But to me personally, it’s all about the songs.  Including six Rodney Griffin compositions, this is one of my favorite projects in terms of songwriting.

Knock my socks off: My Name Is Lazarus, Redemption Draweth Nigh, He Washed My Feet, Far Beyond This Place

Don’t skip that one: Just One More Soul, Just Pray, Unworthy But Made Worthy

I could honestly do without: There’s No Place Like Home