Matters Of The Heart is the eighth album by American contemporary gospel music group Commissioned, released in 1994 on Benson Records. It was the last album with Fred Hammond and Michael Williams, both of whom left after this album.
Domestically, the album peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard Top Gospel albums chart, number 13 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian chart and number 65 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Track listing "Work on Me Jesus” (Anson Dawkins, Fred Hammond, Mitchell Jones) – 5:00 "Stand" (Hammond, Jones) – 4:56 "Love Is the Way" (Hammond, Chuckii Booker, Mark Luckey) – 6:27 "Dare to Believe" (Jones, Luckey) – 6:20 "Another Day in Paradise" (Phil Collins) – 6:58 "You Can Always Come Home" (Booker, Hammond, Jones, Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons) – 5:42 "When Love Calls You Home" (Hammond, Ty Lacy, Bryan Lenox) – 4:32 "Lay Your Troubles Down" (Hammond, Luckey, Maxx Frank) – 6:18 "Find Myself in You" (Lacy, Lenox) – 4:06 "I'm Learning" (Jones, Parkes Stewart) – 4:55 "We Shall Behold Him" (Dottie Rambo) – 6:34 "Draw Me Nearer" (Fanny Crosby, William Howard Doane) – 3:56
Personnel Fred Hammond: vocals, bass, drum programming, key bass, keyboards, programming Karl Reid: vocals Marvin Sapp: vocals Mitchell Jones: vocals Maxx Frank: keyboards, programming, Hammond B-3 organ Michael Williams: drums
Additional Musicians Noel Hall: keyboards Tim Bowman: guitar Bo Cooper: piano Bryan Lenox: strings, bells, oboe programming, synth bass, drums, percussion, keyboards Dann Huff: guitar Chuckii Booker: all instruments Danny Duncan: programming Marty Paoletta: saxophone Parkes Stewart: additional background vocals Eric Dawkins of Dawkins & Dawkins: additional background vocals Run-DMC: rap on 'You Can Always Come Home'
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