Worship!: A Total Christmas Worship Experience (CD - 2003)

Performers include: Women Of Faith, MercyMe, Sara Groves, Joe Pace, Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, Lenny LeBlanc, Rita Baloche, Morris Chapman, Darlene Zschech, SONICFLOOd.

The IWORSHIP series is the latest Christian concoction from the people who created the well-crafted WOW and SONGS 4 WORSHIP series of collections. As with the former, the IWORSHIP collections feature reverential music from all over the musical spectrum; its distinction is in its adherence to creating a whole multimedia experience. As for its first Christmas CD, INTEGRITY'S IWORSHIP CHRISTMAS: A TOTAL CHRISTMAS WORSHIP EXPERIENCE features everything from spirituals to folkish adaptations to pop wanderings to R&B crooning to full-out classical orchestrations on two CDs accompanied by a thorough DVD.

The CHRISTMAS WORSHIP EXPERIENCE opens with a fetching orchestra playfully running through "Good Christian Men Rejoice" before a traditional choir kicks in for carols like "O Come O Come Emanuel" and "O Come All Ye Faithful." Although it starts conventionally, it veers into different territory by track five, with a contemporary countrified take of "The First Noel." The following tracks include a modern pop version of "Do You Hear What I Hear," the soulfully stark "The Light of the World" as performed by the excellent Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, and a musing folk version of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." INTEGRITY'S IWORSHIP CHRISTMAS offers an engaging mix of styles for those looking for a religious-based yet diverse Christmas record. minimize