Reviewed by Doug Holland

Put 50 of the most popular, recognisable and influential mainstream corporate worship songs of the last 30 years into one collection and you can be assured that you will have a hit on your hands; packaging and marketing it for the festival that is the present day understanding and practice of Mothering Sunday really is frankly unnecessary. Having said that, most of the big-hitters of the period (Townend, Redman, Doerksen, Brown, Birtill, Hughes, Smith, Bilbrough, Mark, Oakley, Hillsong) are on this compilation so there is plenty of quality worship tracks here. So if by any chance your mum's a believer you might want this set of recycled songs.

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Fifty songs. Three CDs. Masses of worship that gets right to the heart of the matter. So what’s not to love about this new compilation?

It’s a great triple album, featuring some great covers (Christine Dente’s version of Matt Redman’s Once Again stands out particularly, just like Cathy Burton’s version of the Hillsong classic Mighty To Save).

There are original artist recordings too - and great ones at that. Stuart Townend’s In Christ Alone never gets old, and Brenton Brown’s Everlasting God never gets tired. Add in Blessed Be Your Name, Surrender and The Father’s Song and it’s a winner from start to finish.