New Life Worship
New Life Worship introduces their new awaited live album ‘Over It All’. After twenty years of worship ministry and seven years since their last record, living out God's sovereignty in times of uncertainty, the Colorado-based worship team are back with an album that exudes Spirit-fuelled energy, joy and fresh surrender to the Lord. Worship is in the bones of New Life Church and the sound of ‘Over It All’ carries a sense of fresh hope and holy defiance. Birthed from the heart of their community, these songs embody what New Life Worship and their church are all about: a people on mission together to see disciples made and hearts healed.
It’s been 7 years since New Life Worship’s last record. How does it feel to have these songs out now? What did you all learn as a team during that time of pause?
We’re a church. The ministry to our community and city is always first. We continued writing songs for our church and singing them as loud and as often as possible.
As always with our team, recording and releasing the music comes after the main thing, building a healthy team and healthy worship culture in our church.
Around 2 years ago it became clear it was time to record and release songs again. In the last 30-plus years New Life Church has release over 30 albums. Songs are deep in the soil.
All the more reason to make sure that when given the chance to say something we have something to say.
We want to be a trusted voice. Jon released his Unveil album in 2019 and the team rallied around it. We learned some new techniques on how to track LIVE and looked forward to applying that to a new project. We waited for the songs and we watched to see what our church wanted and needed to sing. This collection of songs have carried our church.
Through pandemics and wars, we have declared loudly that “Our God is Over All.”
How do these songs impact the spiritual lives of the people beyond your immediate community?
We know a young man who fought for his life in the hospital for almost two months. These songs were a strength to him until he walked out of that place. We’ve heard impactful stories from folks who live a life in what the celts call the “thin place,” where the presence of God is near. We need worship to serve both camps of people.
On Over it All, we tried to write songs that will lift the eyes of the weak and bolster the faith of the strong.
Songs that remind us we are not alone, but are joining the chorus of centuries of believers who have gone before us.
And songs that point to where we are going and will be centuries from now. Songs of ancient and future truth to remember that our God reigns over all things.
New Life Worship is comprised of a multicultural group of solo artists. How does this fact edify the songs you write and strengthen your commitment to sharing Truth?
We want our team to look and sound like the kingdom we sing about. The kingdom is multicultural. We’re not there yet but we insist on building toward that future.
We have also felt great reward in watching the team rise. Individual careers and solo efforts may always exist, but we have found a strong unity in building beyond ourselves.
There is a prophetic edge to this album. What has God been telling you all as a collective to communicate through Over It All ?
God reigns.
Because of that we always have a song to sing. There is nothing we face in this world that Jesus has not addressed. We always have the greater truth of the kingdom of God to sing towards and sing about.
Worship is a lifeline.
It galvanizes our hearts around the hope of all this is coming and has come. We picked these songs because they are radical. Maybe even foolish in context to the world and its chaos. But we know of truth that rises above the news cycle and we did our best to write those songs. They carry what we call a “hoy defiance” because our church has always carried a holy defiance.
We know how to sing through suffering.
We know what to declare when fear comes knocking. In a very real way for us, the darker the night the louder the song. I think we are more deeply engaged in the realities of our broken world when we more deeply engage in the reality that God reigns over all things.
New Life Worship | Over It All
Lead songs from Over It All with your congregation.