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Mandate: Living The Adventure
The Mandate 2007. They didn't come to cheer on their champions at a sports event or rock concert. Yet nearly 4,000 men descended on Ireland's premier indoor venue - the Odyssey Arena, Belfast - for a day of singing and celebration in November 2007.
2007
East of the River
Produced in 2007 his first studio based recording for seven years and the latest collection of new worship songs for today's church. Congregational friendly hymns merge and flow with reflective and passionate story songs to form a stunning collection.
Characteristically bible based lyrics and celtic musical undertones make this an album which at least one reviewer has dubbed 'possibly his best album so far'.
Including 'Heaven's Gates', 'Fortress' and 'Lost and Found', this is sure to please both existing fans and newcomers alike.
Produced by: Paul Mills
2007
Days of Elijah - The Worship Songs of Robin Mark
Internationally known worship leader and songwriter Robin Mark's name is synonymous with blending traditional Irish instrumentation with the passion of modern worship. He has impacted the face of worship music with such releases as Revival in Belfast, Come Heal This Land and Revival In Belfast II, which together have sold over 650,000 units. Now, for the first time ever, Days of Elijah - The Worship Songs Of Robin Mark brings his greatest songs together on one CD.
2008
Revival in Belfast
Revival In Belfast captures the passionate worship at Christian Fellowship Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Known for their strong cross community emphasis, it is a place where grace and mercy abound in the midst of the troubles of Northern Ireland. The blend of uilleann pipes, pennywhistle and a multi-national worship band create a powerful backdrop to these intensely honest songs.
Produced by: Paul Mills
1999
Revival In Belfast 2
A return to the vibrant worship of Christian Fellowship Church in Belfast. The hallmark celtic sounds tinge the strong and stirring words of these modern and traditional songs.
Produced by: Paul Mills
2004
Come Heal This Land
This eagerly anticipated sequel to Revival in Belfast, this album was recorded at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Hailed as the birthplace of European Christianity, its setting was a perfect foundation for an album seeking a rebirth of passion for God in the midst of troubled times.
Produced by: Paul Mills
2001
The Mandate 1&2
The Mandate 1and2 is a double CD featuring the award winning 'Mandate - All for Jesus' album and its follow up 'Men of Faith'.
The albums have been recorded live at The Mandate teaching day held in Belfast each year, where 2,500 men of all denominations come together in the Waterfront Hall.
A more contemporary sound endeavouring to draw on the many gathered traditions and featuring psalms, hymns and spiritual songs selected from the wide range of Christian Music through the centuries. The voices of 2,500 men join together like one majestic male voice choir giving this album a particular flavour.
Recorded live at Belfast Waterfront Hall
Produced by: Les Moir and Bruce Pont
1999
This City These Streets / Room for Grace
Robin's last studio album of the 1990s has been digitally remastered and combined with Room For Grace, a live recording at the Assembly Rooms in Belfast in 1997.
In addition, the enhanced CD has printable music scores.
ROOM FOR GRACE
This is a raw straight recording with very little post production from an event that took place in the centre of Belfast in 1997. The title of the album is important because at the time when an event such as that was being planned, which was in essence the first large concert that the band had done in Nothern Ireland there are all sorts of things needing to be organised. When you think everything is in place, and when you think you've got all the bases covered, and when you think there is nothing possible that can go wrong, you realise that you're in a dangerous place, because you've begun to rely on your own ability and your own capabilities. During the prepatation for the event, I had a sense that God was saying to always leave room for grace. That means that even when you think you've got everything sorted out, make sure that you've left room for God to work out his purposes in the way he chooses, for no matter what your plans might be, his plans are greater, better, more exciting and more profound. So always leave room for the God of grace.
The venue where the album was recorded is called the Assembly Rooms which was another reason for calling the title 'Room for Grace'.
There are a number of songs taken from earlier studio albums and performed in a live setting. There are some other songs which are not on any other album, and the highlight for many people, strangely enough, is a rendition of "Power in the Blood", at the end of the evening. The album captures something of the enjoyment and excitement and power of the event and doesn't seek to disguise occasional flaws and occasional ropey vocals by post production - in other words, it leaves room for grace.
THIS CITY THESE STREETS
This album is the last studio album of the 1990s and contains the popular worship song 'Revival' in its original form. The album is essentially a celebration and a reflection on the city. It includes some other songs which would be termed 'city songs' - songs about ordinary people, touched in an extraordinary way - particularly the song 'Billy Spence'. Billy Spence lived at the turn of the 20th century and he was converted by an evangelist in a docks area from alcoholism. He became a major force for evangelism to the working class people of Belfast. If you want to learn more about this song, read the full story here.
Produced by: Gary Aiken
1997 / 1998
Days of Elijah and Not By Might
Robin's first two studio albums have been digitally remastered and combined in a double album.
NOT BY MIGHT
This was the first album that I produced on CD. It's a collection mainly of worship songs, with some other songs covering themes relevant to the Christian life and experience. The whole point of the title song is a reference to a vision that Zechariah had where he heard God say that it was not by might or by power but by his spirit. In a sense, that's a good theme for an album of praise music to have because it isn't ability or technique that is of prime important - it is the presence of God's Spirit.
The album contains another song which has been widely used throughout the world in praise and worship, ‘Lion of Judah’ and is a song of acclamation and ascription. In the Old Testament many of the psalms of David, and Hannah's song and Moses' song, as well as many other praise songs in the scriptures, simply list either the things that God had done or aspects of his character. It seems to me that if that type of worship is important and relevant within the Bible, then its important and relevant now adays to ascribe things unto God that are his. Even though our logical minds would say that God knows all these things about himself, and that in a way he doesn't need to be told, yet there is a spiritual dynamic in singing songs of ascription which perhaps we do not fully understand.
My own favourite song of all the songs that I have written is on this album - that is the song ‘Great Love’. As a simple explanation, the song compares the uselessness of seeking earthly wisdom, earthly knowledge and earthly understanding with regard to all things, with the wisdom and knowledge that comes from God and particularly revealed by and through his love. Its a love song to God saying very simply that there is really one major theme that we need to hold on to - the love of God - because the love and peace of God will, and does, surpass all understanding.
DAYS OF ELIJAH
This is the second studio album, and takes as its core song ‘Days of Elijah’, which is perhaps, my most well known modern hymn. I have been asked again and again for an explanation of the song and how it came to be, and for anyone else who has wondered about it, the full story is here.
The album also contains 13 other songs of praise and worship, and I would like to introduce just one of those songs.
The song ‘When You Restored’ has particular relevance for some of my musicians. It celebrates through one of the well known psalms, the restoration of people brought back to God. The original text of the psalm reads ‘when the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream’ and is a picture saying that God's revelation and restoration is better that anything you can even dream of.
At the time of the song being written, two new people joined my worship band. One was a single girl who had gone through a number of traumatic experiences in relationships and the another a single man who had similarly. Both of these people had been to the lowest place and probably felt that restoration in the form of relationships was too great a prize to even imagine. But God is good and in the midst of being in the band, rehearsing for worship, these two people met and within six months were married and they now have a little son. God restored both their lives and ther relationships, bringing them from a place of darkness to a place of light. A remarkable transformation in circumstance and experience took place, all because of God's desire to bring restoration to individuals' lives. This is what he offers through Jesus, and this is what we can expect from the loving heart of a Father God. So when the song says ‘when you restored us Lord, we were like those who dream, touched by your sacrificial love, washed in your healing stream’, it simply states what God's redemptive power can do to and for anyone.
Produced by: Brian Houston / Robin Mark
1993 / 1998
