Cardiphonia专辑介绍：We give this album as a free gift to the church. All donations will be directed to the Van Patter family. You can read more about them here: The Van Patters– Michael, Hannah, Piper (3), and Watts (1)– live in Greensboro, NC. At the end of May 2013, Watts was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Since then, they've spent nearly 100 days/nights in the hospital (Brenner Children's in Winston Salem, NC) as Watts receives aggressive chemotherapy. Treatment will continue for another 18 months. The weekend that Watts was diagnosed, the Van Patter's started keeping a blog, hoping that it would serve as both a source of updates and a testimony to the goodness of God, even in painful and unexplainable circumstances. For more info, visit www.cloudsofmercy.blogspot.com. -- Canticles - from the Song of Moses in Exodus 15 to the Song of Moses and the Lamb in Revelation 15 God has given voice to his people's response in poetic praise throughout the story of scripture. He has given poetic song as an embodied way for his people to corporately gather their spirits together and offer praise, thanksgiving, lament, and covenant proclamation. The canticles typically refer to songs in scripture that habitate outside the psalms. In this latest compilation from Cardiphonia we have invited a group of church musicians and songwriters to meditate on 13 of these scripture songs that have been the most used throughout church history. So few of them find voice in the praises of the evangelical church (it is slightly a different case in the more liturgical traditions) and most of its musicians are largely unaware of their presence. They have so much to teach us about God and worship and we though it was important for the churches musicians to have an opportunity to engage with these songs. These canticles are a brilliant array of the various ways of writing from scripture. Some of them are word for word renditions, others pursuing something akin to dynamic equivalence, many offer a paraphrase, and a couple provide reflections from this side of the cross. All in all they will be a huge blessing to the church as we seek to sing God's songs back to Him. Our thanks to all of the artists for donating their songs to this project. (c) for all songs resides with the individual artists.