Debut Album
From Garden
to Glory
Thirteen tracks. One story. From the first dawn of Creation to the New Creation that comes at the end of all things — sung from the voice of a witness who stood and watched it all happen.
Debut Album
Thirteen tracks. One story. From the first dawn of Creation to the New Creation that comes at the end of all things — sung from the voice of a witness who stood and watched it all happen.
Cephas is the recording project of Hardus Havenga — independent songwriter and producer based in South Africa. From Garden to Glory is the debut release: a 65-minute song cycle written and produced over the course of a year, anchored line-by-line in the text of Scripture and built to be heard end-to-end like a single piece of music.
The arrangements draw on orchestral rock, full choir, sub-bass and anthemic crescendo — what listeners have called epic cinematic worship. Each of the first twelve tracks tells one movement of the salvation story: Creation, the Fall, the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the Kings and the Exile, the four-hundred-year silence, the Incarnation, the public ministry, the Cross, the Resurrection, Pentecost, and the New Creation. The thirteenth track is an overture that weaves the whole story together in one closing medley.
The album was released on all major streaming platforms in April 2026 through Ditto Music.
Twelve movements of salvation history, plus a closing overture. Each track is anchored in a specific passage of Scripture.
01
Genesis 1 – 2 · Creation
The first dawn. Light, sea, sky, garden. A world spoken into being and called good.
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02
Genesis 3 · The Fall
A whispered lie. A bitten fruit. The first silence between God and the people He made.
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03
Genesis 12, 15, 22 · Abraham
An old man stands under a sky too wide to number, and is asked to believe a promise.
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04
Exodus · Passover and the Red Sea
Doorposts marked. Chariots drowned. A people walks out of slavery on a road of dry seabed.
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05
Kings → Isaiah 53 → Exile
The kings fall. The temple burns. A man of sorrows is foretold. And the question echoes off the walls of Babylon.
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06
The 400-year silence
Four hundred years without a prophet. Heaven holds its breath. The world keeps spinning.
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07
John 1 · The Incarnation
The light that made the stars enters the world in a feed trough. A baby cries in Bethlehem.
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08
The Gospels · Ministry and the Beatitudes
He heals on Sabbaths. He blesses the poor. He turns water to wine and the world inside out.
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09
The Crucifixion
A Friday afternoon. A torn veil. Three words spoken from a Roman cross that change everything.
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10
The Resurrection
The stone is rolled. The grave is empty. Death meets the first morning it cannot keep.
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11
Pentecost and the Church
Tongues of flame over an upper room. A scattered handful becomes a movement that walks out into every nation.
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12
Revelation 21 – 22 · The New Creation
A new heaven. A new earth. No more tears. The Garden returns — and this time it never closes.
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13
Overture · the whole story
A closing medley that weaves every movement back together — from the first morning to the last.
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Also coming to Apple Music and additional platforms via Ditto Music as they finish propagating.
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Cephas is the recording project of Hardus Havenga. All correspondence reaches the same inbox.