Playlist for Episode 129: Time to climb – Lee Walker & Spirit I need Thee – New Christianaires It is possible – Jeanetta Williams Won’t He do it – The Beard Sisters Lessons you learn – Hanson Asiedu God is doing it – Ernest Billups & Tribe of Levi Reset – Jonathan Wimbush Deepest part of you – Doe The man – Keith Wonderboy Johnson Thirst 4 U – Richard Davis Do an new thing – Fred Williams Blue – Juliana Schnee So good – Not Easily Broken (NEBS)

Fred Williams Do a New Thing (independent; release date: March 17, 2017) https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/fredwilliams32 By Bob Marovich Living the holy life appears to be the overriding theme of Fred Williams’ independently-produced Do a New Thing. On the title track, the Aiken, South Carolina, singer-songwriter and music minister references Isaiah 43:18-21 in showing gratitude for God’s plentiful blessings, as well as reminding us of our responsibility to do the right thing: pay the blessings forward. During “On this Journey,” he asks God to show him the way to holiness, a state of existence he examines in detail earlier in the CD on “A Holy Life.” Other songs, such ...

By Bob Marovich In Mark 6:4, Jesus advises that “a prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown.” This is true, almost to the point of becoming cliché.  It rings true for Vernell Payton Jr. “It took a man from Chicago, who did not know me, who I never met, to see something in me that my own hometown did not invest time in,” the independent gospel artist told the Journal of Gospel Music while in Chicago last week, visiting his record label, 4Parks Entertainment. Payton’s hometown is New Orleans, and more specifically, the Gentilly area, which abuts Lake Ponchartrain. ...