The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has done it again, by the grace of God, with their new album, I Will Not Be Moved: Live with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. This collection includes several songs already familiar to Christian music listeners as well as new songs written or co-written by Carol Cymbala for the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Featuring friends Stephen McWhirter, Babbie Mason, Brad Hudson, and TaRanda Greene, this powerful compilation of ten songs will encourage and bless you.
Right now everything in our world is shaking. People who once were fervent in serving the Lord are now in left field. Leaders evolve in their beliefs due to political pressure. Everywhere we turn, things are shifting. But the Christian who knows Jesus and His Word will not be moved.
Just like reading the Word of God is a blessing, in this album you will hear truth from the Word of God and be blessed. Filled with both vertical and horizontal songs—sung directly to God as well as about God—this collection will warm your heart, encourage you, and challenge you. When everyone is shifting and falling away, it’s wonderful to be encouraged, “I will not be moved.”
CAROL CYMBALA
Carol Cymbala grew up as one of six children in a ministry home, where she witnessed the power of God in miraculous ways. She displayed a gift for music at a very early age when she taught herself to play the piano by ear. She always had a love for beautiful chords and harmonies. When her father, the late Reverend Clair Hutchins, would return from his mission trips to Africa, Carol would watch the films he had brought home and was captivated by the different styles of music and rhythms she heard.
It was during these years that God spoke to Carol that she would one day direct a choir. In the natural, this seemed unlikely, as she was extremely timid and shy.
Carol married her childhood sweetheart, Jim, and they immediately went into ministry. In the early 1970s, Pastor Cymbala and Carol took over the leadership of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, a congregation that numbered less than twenty people at the time. Carol obeyed the Lord’s leading and started a choir with a group of nine people. Severe anxiety and self-doubt almost led her to cancel the first rehearsal, but her love of music and sense of God’s calling caused her to push through. As a result, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir was formed. Over the years, the small choir grew and became a vital part of the ministry of the church.
Carol began to discover that God had given her a gift of songwriting, and soon the choir was given the opportunity to record their first album. God blessed this first recording, which eventually led to more albums and open doors for the choir and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers (a core group of vocalists from the choir) to travel around the country and world and spread the gospel through song. Carol has written hundreds of songs and recorded thirty albums, six of which have won Grammy Awards.
Today Carol continues to direct the music at the Brooklyn Tabernacle with a steadfast passion to see the name of Jesus lifted up through song in New York City and around the world.