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Grown 
Artist: Kendall Payne
Label:  Indie 

Still in her early twenties this Californian girl had a deal with Capitol records and a Dove Award in the Christian world, for her debut album Jordan's Sister, before finding herself discarded which is typical of the music industry; sadly both inside and outside the Christian version. Grown has taken time and a lot of growing pains. Here is an album about life’s hard knocks and how faith God and friends help you deal with them. It is also about someone coming to terms with who God has made them and being confident of what he demands in following him. The rock strut of Stand written by Lifehouse’s Jason Wade is about allegiance to God’s ways no matter how tough. Rollercoaster with its pop rock instantaneousness is about the ebb and flows of the ride. Pray is a beautiful stripped back acoustic closing prayer that we would all be given blessings but not the ones we were wanting. Payne is maturing and very brilliant in the meantime! 

Steve Stockman  3/20/2005
  
 

Steve Stockman is the Presbyterian Chaplain at Queens University, Belfast, Ireland, where he lives in community with 88 students. He has written two books Walk On; The Spiritual Journey of U2 which he is currently updating and The Rock Cries Out; Discovering Eternal Truth in Unlikely Music. He dabbles in poetry and songwriting and he has a weekly radio show on BBC Radio Ulster (listen anytime of day or night @ www.bbc.co.uk/ni/religion/rhythmandsoul). He has his own web page--Rhythms of Redemption at http://stocki.ni.org . He also tries to spend some time with his wife Janice and daughters Caitlin and Jasmine.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

   
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