Brenton Brown
Mar 28, 2011
Brenton Brown recently released his third full-length album, "Our God Is Near," on Kingsway. Produced by Jason Ingram and Rusty Varenkamp, the album features the musical collaboration of Brown and his band, The Worship Republic, with members Daniel Ornellas (bass), Scotty Murray (guitar) and Ben Showalter (drums).
"'Our God Is Near' is bent on spanning the chasm between joy and death. Those two ideas seem totally disparate and juxtaposed, like they could never go together, but that's what makes the good news good news," says Brenton. "When God is near, things change. He can literally bulldoze the mountains in our lives out of the way if he chooses to. We can't fully understand it, and our language cannot describe it, but peace can come even in the fellowship of suffering. That we can die in him and rise in him confounds the trials of the world. Our music struggles to contain this idea."
