Genre: Pop/Rock, Worship
Members: Rick Heil (vocals), Trey Hill (bass), Chris Kimmerer (drums), Grant Norsworthy (bass), Jordan Jameson (guitar)
For fans of: Delirious, Chris Tomlin, Jeff Deyo
Label: INO Records

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More than just a CD, the new release from pioneering modern worship band Sonicflood is a call to this generation—not just Baby Busters or Generation X, but everyone alive right now—to be what we're made to be: worshippers of God.

The follow-up to 2003's Cry Holy, This Generation (2005) sees Sonicflood entering a new season that includes welcoming new players, a season that frontman Rick Heil hopes will lead people to a definitive understanding that God's heart is truly good.

It sounds obvious. After all, we learn about God's goodness from our earliest days in Sunday school. "But in today's Church, we have a tendency to doubt our Father's heart," Heil says. "Satan's first lie was that God is holding back and He doesn't care about us the way He says He does. Satan planted that seed of doubt in mankind back in the Garden." Through the songs of This Generation, Heil & Co. hope to help uproot that seed.

This is also a season of celebration for Heil as he rejoices over being healed from Crohn's disease, a painful intestinal disorder he's lived with for years. "Normally, you have it for life," Heil explains, "but I was in the hospital in March and one of the top surgeons went through all my intestines and said there was no disease to treat."

For so many years, Heil praised God through the pain. Now he's thrilled to celebrate the way the Lord has given him back his health. No matter how he's doing physically, though, Heil knows it's easy to give in to doubt, to believe that God doesn't have our best interests at heart.

"It's something I struggled with throughout this illness and through relationships that have gone awry," he admits. "When we buy into that, it's easy to start blaming God for the pain or hurt in our lives." That's why Heil hopes that everyone who listens to This Generation will begin to truly trust God's promise that He has a plan to prosper us and not harm us.

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