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Blessed (Hillsong album)

album by Hillsong Church

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4926237 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blessed is the eleventh album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music by Hillsong Church. It was recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 3 March 2002 by Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong Worship Team. Blessed saw Marty Sampson step up to lead worship alongside Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan for the night. Over 10,000 people from Hillsong Church attended the recording. The album reached No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Track listing

"Blessed" (Darlene Zschech, Reuben Morgan) – lead vocals: Darlene Zschech, Reuben Morgan

"Now That You're Near" (Marty Sampson) – lead vocals: Marty Sampson, b. Darlene Zschech

"Shout of the King" (Ned Davies) – lead vocals: Darlene Zschech

"Made Me Glad" (Miriam Webster) – lead vocals: Darlene Zschech

"Through It All" (Morgan) – lead vocals: Darlene Zschech, b. Reuben Morgan

"Son of God" (Lincoln Brewster and Marty Sampson) – lead vocals: Marty Sampson, b. Darlene Zschech

"One Desire" (Joel Houston) – lead vocals: Marty Sampson, Darlene Zschech

"Magnificent" (Raymond Badham) – lead vocals: Tulele Faletolu

"I Adore" (Reuben Morgan) – lead vocals: Darlene Zschech, b.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Blessed (Hillsong album)” as album by Hillsong Church. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-06-30. The account is most persuasive where Blessed, Hillsong and album can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as album by Hillsong Church. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4926237. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blessed (Hillsong album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.