''Beautiful Offerings'' is the seventh studio album by

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alongside

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and Fervent Records released the album on September 18, 2015.

Critical reception

Awarding the album four stars from ''

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'', Jamie Walker states, "''Beautiful Offerings'' features eleven originals that continue the band's tradition of offering rich melodic hooks perfectly paired with thought-provoking and worshipful lyrics...With ''Beautiful Offerings'', Big Daddy Weave once again powerfully presents in their own unique way the live-giving messages of hope and surrender." Kevin Davis, giving the album four and a half stars at New Release Today, writes, "This new album demonstrates once again the passion and energy that have made Big Daddy Weave one of Christian music's most compelling acts...These are very passionate worship songs with biblically based lyrics sung with vocal sincerity and reverence...This album is Big Daddy Weave's crowning achievement and one of my top albums of the year." Indicating in a four and a half star review by ''Worship Leader'', Randy Cross responds, "''Beautiful Offerings'' is the next 'classic' from the band that continues to define what it is to be a Christian pop artist...Sometimes introspective, always deep and worshipful, ''Beautiful Offerings'' is an unadulterated celebration of the band's relationship with Jesus". Rating the album three stars from Jesus Freak Hideout, Alex Caldwell describes, "The early songs on ''Beautiful Offerings'' show that Big Daddy Weave can stretch the boundaries of their sound when they want to, but half of the songs here sound like they could have been performed by ten other bands." Joshua Andre, indicating in a four and a half star review for 365 Days of Inspiring Media, recognizes, "''Beautiful Offerings'' is one of the stand out albums of the year, in my opinion, as well as the band’s most complete and mature work to date, with plenty of genres encompassed throughout." Signaling in a four and a half star review by The Christian Beat, Abby Baracskai replies, "Big Daddy Weave continues to deliver new and creative arrangements, powerful lyrics and compelling vocals with ''Beautiful Offerings''."

Track listing

Personnel

Big Daddy Weave * Mike Weaver – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars * Jeremy Redmon – keyboard programming, electric guitars,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, additional drums,

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

, backing vocals * Joe Shirk – keyboards, saxophone, backing vocals * Jay Weaver – bass, backing vocals * Brian Beihl – drums, percussion, backing vocals Additional Musicians * Matt Gilder – keyboards (1-8, 10, 13) * David Leonard – keyboards (1, 4, 6-9, 11), backing vocals (3, 6-10, 14) * Ben Phillips – drums (1-11, 13) * Matt Nelson –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

(2) * The Love Sponge Strings – strings (1, 2, 12, 14) * Luke Brown – backing vocals (1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13) * Anna Redmon – backing vocals (1, 2) * Benji Cowart – backing vocals (11)

Production

* Jeremy Redmon – producer * Tedd T – additional producer (11) * Josh Bailey – A&R * Ben Phillips – tracking engineer * Ainslie Grosser – mixing * Dan Shike – mastering * Shane Tarleton – creative director * Katherine Petillo – art direction, design * David Molnar – photography

Charts

Awards and nominations

In 2016, 'My Story' was nominated for a

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for 'Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year'.

References

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