Reviewed by Steve Cox

I know he's had seemingly dozens of CDs released recently but quite frankly this album left me disappointed. The opening title track is overlong, self-indulgent and hit 10 on the cringe factor scale. Some may detect an anointing but, for me, DJ's verbose narrative interruptions began to grate. Relief did arrive by track six which, thankfully, revealed DJ's heart with lyrics like "Take my heart and tear it apart and leave me helpless but not alone/I'm devastated by your love like a tree beneath the wind -broken for the building of a cross before all men!" The following track "There Is No Chain" combined the promise of freedom in Christ with the best hook on the album. Is Cox just too hard to please, or are there just too many mediocre worship-oriented albums? 'Daddy's Song' affirms the need to surrender to the loving arms of our heavenly father. I just wish I could affirm the musical quality with the same conviction.

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