Point of Grace
Beautiful Name
LifeWay, 2018
Point of Grace — maybe you’ve heard of them. But save for the original song “The Power of Love” (and its great chorus), you won’t be hearing any new music from the CCM Magazine mainstays on the “Beautiful Name” album, making it now six years since the trio released an original album. But I’m not complaining — any album that opens with an acapella version of “The Doxology” is fine in my book. Member Shelley Breen said the group has planned a hymns and worship project since forming in 1993. It was worth the wait. “Beautiful Name” is a 10-track, 43-minute bullseye, with the heroines of harmony taking aim at centuries-old classics like “Holy, Holy, Holy,” “Blessed Assurance” and “He Leadeth Me.” But there’s plenty of modern praise and worship standards, as you might have guessed from the title, which draws its name from the 2017 Hillsong Worship hit “What a Beautiful Name,” the album’s third song.
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Jeremy Henderson reviews music for The Alabama Baptist. He is co-host of Rich and Jeremy in the Mornings on Wings 94.3 FM, editor of The War Eagle Reader.
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