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Michael W. Smith Michael Whitaker Smith (born October 7, 1957) is an American musician who has charted in both contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and mainstream charts. His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when "Place in This Worl ...

's fifth album overall and his second album to be certified gold. Smith collaborated again with lyricist

Wayne Kirkpatrick Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Greenville, MS, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwriter and d ...

, and produced music videos for the songs "Secret Ambition" and "I Miss the Way." The album peaked at No. 1 on the Top Contemporary Christian charts.

Track listing

All songs written by Michael W. Smith and

except where noted.

Personnel

Musicians * Michael W. Smith – keyboards, lead vocals (1–8, 10, 11), backing vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 10), horn arrangements (6), drum programming (9) *

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer, studio guitarist, and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004 ...

– guitars (1–8) * Chris Rodriguez – guitars (1, 3, 5, 6, 8), backing vocals (4, 6, 8, 11) * Jerry McPherson – guitars (2, 4, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (7) * Tom Hemby – guitars (6, 8, 10, 11), bass (9, 11) *

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Mu ...

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mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

s (9),

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

s (9) * Billy Sprague – acoustic guitar (11) * Mike Brignardello – bass (1–5, 7, 8) *

Tommy Sims Tommy Sims is an American bassist, songwriter, record producer and bandleader. Music career From 1987 to 1989 Sims was the bassist for the Christian rock band White Heart, which he left to become a Session musician, studio musician and pro ...

– bass (6) * Gary Lunn – bass (10) *

Paul Leim Paul William Leim (born December 29, 1950) is an American drummer and recording session musician based in Nashville. Biography Leim was born in Port Huron, Michigan and raised in Troup, Texas. He was inspired to take up drumming as a child a ...

– drums (1–4, 6–8, 10) * Mark Hammond – drum programming (11) * Terry McMillan – percussion (1, 3, 5, 7, 8),

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

(1) * Bob Mason – cello (5) * George Binkley – violin (5) * John Borg – violin (5) * Carl Gorodetzsky – violin (5) * Ronn Huff – string arrangements (5) * Mark Douthit – horns (6), horn arrangements (6) * Barry Green – horns (6), horn arrangements (6) * Mike Haynes – horns (6), horn arrangements (6) *

– backing vocals (1–8, 10), acoustic guitar (3), drum programming (9) * Chris Harris – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10), recitation (6) * Mark Heimmerman – backing vocals (2, 5) *

Oz Fox Richard Alfonso Martinez (born June 18, 1961), better known by the stage name Oz Fox, is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez' high school friends called him ''Oz'' in honor of Ozzy Osbourne due to his ability to ...

– backing vocals (4) * Billy Simon – backing vocals (4) *

Michael Sweet Michael Harrison Sweet (born July 4, 1963) is an American musician; he is the co-founder, songwriter, guitarist and lead singer of the heavy metal music, metal band Stryper. He has also had a successful solo career and served as singer and gui ...

– backing vocals (4) ;Choir on "The Throne" * Chris Harris * Jan Harris * Amy Heimmerman * Mark Heimmerman * Angel Palacastro * Chris Rodriguez * Lisa Rodriguez * Kim Smith * Don Wise ;Children's choir on "The Throne" * Anna Kristen Caker * Benji Cowart * Jeremy Cowart * Dana Dawson * Daniel Dorris * Heather Holland * Shannon Love * Sara Yarborough * Kathie Hill – children's choir director Production * Michael Blanton – executive producer * Jeff Moseley – executive producer * Michael W. Smith – producer * Wayne Kirkpatrick – producer * Bill Whittington – engineer, mixing * Lynn Fuston – additional engineer * Steve Bishir – assistant engineer * John Bouchillon – assistant engineer * Mike Clute – assistant engineer * Brian Hardin – assistant engineer * Mark Nevers – assistant engineer * Dave Parker – assistant engineer * Carry Summers – assistant engineer * Ken Love – editing * Hank Williams – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) * Jackson Design Nashville – design * Eika Aoshima – photography * Jonathan Scow-Cloutier – styling * Wendy Osmundson – grooming

Track listing

Personnel

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Certifications

References