Featuring the hits "Honestly", "Trust in You" and "Glorious Impossible"

10 MP3 Songs in this album (38:16) !
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Davidâs Psalms are among the first known worship songs. Reading through them, they ran the gamut of emotions and states, from joy, adoration and thankfulness to despair, questioning and searching. Since the events of his life are laid out in the books of Samuel, it is clear that these songs were drawn directly from his wrestling with his faith and his relationship with God.

For Carl Cartee, the songs on his newest release, Here I Go, were drawn from his own wrestling with his faith amid difficult circumstances. Produced by Nathan Nockels and Matt Stanfield, the result is a deep and honest expression of worship that seeks to spur the listener to put feet to their own faithâbecause Carl believes that worship is meant to extend beyond that specific act. From the anthemic âThe Glorious Impossibleâ and the title track âHere I Goâ, to the pulsing rhythm of âThe Soundâ to the contemplative âFirstâ and âTrust In You,â Carlâs songs plumb the mysteries and the certainties of the Christian faith.

As he explains, âWorship music that doesnât produce both spiritual and tangible fruit is one dimensional, and that canât be. If we donât say things and produce music and think about things that both exalt God and inspire action in peopleâs lives, I donât know of how much value it is, because I think the Gospel is both.â

Two of the songs on Here I Go, âLet The World Seeâ and âHere I Go,â were written from the conviction that Carl has about worship music being more than just an expression of praise. âThatâs what Iâve been thinking a lot about, so a lot of songs on the record are rooted in that idea of engaging the emotions and the intellect. In John 4, when Jesus talks to the woman at the well, he says the Father seeks worship in spirit and in truth, I think the âspiritâ component of that statement is the emotional, spiritual, intangible expression accompanied by the truth side, where you express truth in action by loving people, by giving them a drink of water, and telling them about Jesus.â

Although Carl wrote âHonestlyâ with Anadara Arnold and Elias Dummer prior to the experience of a serious diagnosis of a skull condition and surgery, the spare arrangement matches the songâs theme of stripping everything away and the need to be broken before God, which resonates even more now. âFirstâ is a song he wrote seven years ago, but one he felt belonged on this project. âItâs one of the first times that Iâve gone back in the song catalog and dragged out some old material,â he says, âbut Iâve always loved the idea of the song, and it says to God âYou will be first, you will be all, you will be everything.â I felt like, having gone through what we just waded through over this past year, my perspective really needed to be refreshed by the ideas in that song and to bring it back to my mind. God has always used songs that I write to teach me lessons.â

As a staff writer for Brentwood âBenson Music Publishing and Artist In Residence at Fellowship Bible Church, and founder of Mighty Oak Records equipping other worship leaders has always been a component of Carlâs ministry, but in the past that has generally taken the form of one-on-one mentoring. Now he and his wife Heather feel called to create a new method of equipping and have created their first worship conference, called Inspire. Part of his goal is to encourage worship leaders and songwriters to dig deep with their art.

âThatâs why I think that emphasizing personal devotion and inspiring and encouraging the idea of âWhy do you read books? Why do you play Halo? Why is one better than the other?â--those kinds of things are what the conference is about,â he continues. âAnd Iâm so excited about the opportunity to put something on. I donât think I could know less about what Iâm doing; I think I am more ill-equipped for this than I ever have been for any other thing in my life, with the exception of really knowing that mentoring and encouraging people and bringing along people and helping them has always been a component of my calling.â