Preson Phillips
I am pretty excited about Preson “Tommy” Phillips new album. You can check it out here.
This album is entitled “The Observant and the Anawim”. The word “observant” is an english translation of the Hebrew word “tsadiq”, and it’s basic meaning is “one who adheres to the whole law of the Lord”. This tsadiq person
would have been a Jew and would be awaiting the day of the coming Messiah. The “Anawim” was a group of poor jewish women who would also be very observant of the law, and would spent parts of their day on the steps of the
temple crying out to the Lord for oppressed peoples to be liberated, the poor to be provided for, the enslaved to be freed, for justice to flow freely and for the Messiah to come and redeem all of creation in a miraculous way.
In essence, the title of this record refers directly to Joseph and Mary… this is who they were, but in another way, Tommy would like it to represent the younger generation today who desires to truly follow Jesus in ways that have been forgotten, or seen as unimportant.
These songs were all written for the WatermarkTampa church - Tommy serves as the pastor. The songs were written for their studies in the books of Acts and Galatians. Tommy has many more songs, but these are a cohesive collection meant to go together. It is worth a listen.