This March, Big Idea will release the VeggieTales Here I Am To Worship album, featuring Bob, Larry and Junior Asparagus along with the Gospel Music Association’s three-time “Female Vocalist of the Year” Dove Award winner Natalie Grant and “2007 Artist of the Year” Dove Award winner Aaron Shust.
Apparently I missed the first VeggieTales album, VeggieTales: Worship Songs, but I’m intrigued by a Veggie worship album. In general, I’m not a fan of kids’ worship albums; they all sound like those screeching Disney “It’s A Small World” robots. But I’m actually a VeggieTales fan so this could be fun.
Grant joins the Veggie crew on the title cut, and Shust lends his voice to his No. 1 hit, “My Savior My God.” The album also includes worship hits like “Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing),” “Open The Eyes Of My Heart,” “Shout To The Lord” and “I Can Only Imagine.”
But what do you think? Does a VeggieTales worship song help introduce kids to worship music, or does it turn worship music into a gag?
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posted December 23, 2008 at 10:44 am
I wonder what people thought of the crowds worshipping and praising God in Luke 19:37-40? I’m sure some of them were as off-key as Junior Asparagus. But then, it’s the spirit in which the praise was offered that matters, not the quality of the voice. And if we don’t cry out, maybe the rocks and stones and veggies will.
posted December 25, 2008 at 10:35 am
I can’t help but think that this validates the notion that ‘Praise and Worship’ has become a marketable commodity in the Christian community. I can dig a vegetable doing ‘In the Belly of the Whale,’ but ‘How Great Thou Art’ is a little ‘iffy’ coming from a cucumber… I enjoyed it when praise and worship just happened when you least expected it.
I love the Veggies, but this might not be their genre.
posted December 26, 2008 at 1:49 am
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posted December 26, 2008 at 10:42 am
Well, Bert, if you read this blog long enough you know I’m prone to rant about the commercialization of the church and Christ. If we can stick a Jesus fish and a price tag on it, its for sale. I’m not sure about my vegetables singing “Here I Am To Worship.” Then again, the Bible says that if we don’t praise God the rocks will cry out, so I guess it’s possible a cucumber could …
I guess it would be equivilent to Elmo singing a worship song with Michael W Smith or something. Kids would totally get it.
I love VeggieTales and I think they’re a great way to share Bible stories and character lessons with kids. But we’ve become a generation of Christians who rely on those over-simplified, entertaining Christian products for our Bible experience. Yeesh, don’t get me started.
Joanne
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posted March 25, 2009 at 4:49 pm
We have this CD at home and it is a wonderful delight to our children, ages 7, 5, and 2. Just this morning we had in on in the kitchen and my 2 year old daughter started dancing and trying to sing while raising her hands towards God. This is a wonderful way to worship God. My children embrace it because it is worship presented to them by characters they can relate to. Sometimes children view most adults as either authoritative figures or examples of what they aspire to be when they get older. No direct connection is made with them as children. These Veggies do thins. They introduce praise and worship to God as something even kids could do wholeheartedly. Also, one of the songs is “I am a friend of God” To hear my children sign this understanding that this applies directly to them is a personal blessing to me as a mother. To see children praise God so freely, even if a vegetable is leading the worship. How often do we throw our hands in the air, dance, and just sing and praise, and worship, and thank God with all we are and all our heart without inclination as to how we look or sound. Maybe we should take a cue from them and their veggie friends. Let’s just praise God for who He is…our Father!