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Six Hours One Friday Online Bible Study Week 3 — Cristo Redentor
Then He stooped down again and wrote in the dust. — John 8:8 My failures are not fatal. ~ Max Lucado Welcome to week three, the half-way point of the Six Hours One Friday Online Bible Study with Max Lucado! Have you ever been caught red-handed, just gob-smacking guilty, whole body in the cookie jar, police lights flashing, no way to get out of hot water? Have you ever lost your reputation in one fell swoop? Of course, your spiritual slide didn’t happen all at once. But, you were able to smear on spackle to cover the cracks and layer it with a fresh coat of paint so no one knew the truth… for…
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Praying to Be Able to Walk in Faith
What if this Jesus thing is all a hoax? I thought to myself in horror one day nearly two years after I accepted Christ as Savior. What if none of it’s true? What if the pastor suddenly says, “This is all a joke, and you fell for it! Jesus isn’t real and you’re not really saved!” That day a wall of doubt settled around me like steel bars separating me from my future. The possibility of a life of nothingness became a temporary reality, and I panicked. What brought this on all of a sudden? I wondered. I struggled with that flash of doubt for days, and the more I thought about it, the…
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10 Prayers of Jesus in the Bible [+Audio]
What We Can Learn from Jesus’ Prayers One of the great blessings of being a follower of Jesus is to know that right now He is interceding for His people before the Father (Roman 8:34; Hebrews 7:25). While we do not know exactly what Jesus says to the Father, we do have examples of many of Jesus’ prayers from the Bible. For example, in John 17: First, Jesus prays that the Father would protect His church. He not only prays for physical protection, but even more He prays for spiritual protection–that the church’s faith would stay strong after Jesus left them to return to His Father (17:11). Second, Jesus prays for…
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Natasha Owens’ Triumphant Third Chapter — ‘Warrior’
Contemporary singer’s latest album finds her at her most lyrically and musically confident by Marcus Hathcock Some of the greatest stories of our generation have been told in trilogies — each volume representing a key subplot in the grander story of a character’s transformation. Christian music vocalist Natasha Owens has been undergoing a transformation of her own. Fans of her music saw her at her most raw, sharing the heartache and pain she experienced in the aftermath of her father’s sudden passing with her debut album, I Made it Through. Then, listeners were moved by hopeful exhales of optimism and powerful promises with Owens’ follow-up, We Will Rise—which saw the…
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Josh Wilson: ‘Borrow (One Day at A Time)-The Solo Experience’
Nashville, TN (March 29, 2019) On the heels of releasing his current single “Borrow (One Day at A Time)” to Christian radio earlier this year, Black River Christian music artist Josh Wilson has just released the new music video, “Borrow (One Day at A Time)—The Solo Experience.” The unique video was shot in Nashville at Sound Stage Studios, filming around him in 360° and showcasing Wilson’s musical talents on more than five different instruments. Click play to watch the video: When Wilson was just in elementary school, he learned to play piano, guitar, and drums. Through the years, he’s developed more talents for multiple other instruments, with the guitar as…
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Unspoken Announces New Album with Release of ‘Reason’
Nashville, TN (March 29, 2019) Unspoken released a new single today, along with the announcement of their third album, both titled “Reason.” The June 21 release of Reason will mark the band’s first full-length record in three years. Listeners can check out the song “Reason” through all digital outlets and its lyric video, plus pre-order the album next week on Unspoken’s website. Click play to watch the lyric video for “Reason” Working with producers including Tedd T. (for KING & COUNTRY), Chris Stevens (tobyMac), David Spencer (Hunter Hayes), and Jeff Pardo (Ben Rector), Unspoken poured their personal stories and vulnerabilities into this new batch of songs, all of which, unintentionally,…
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Riley Clemmons Drops New Ballad ‘Fighting For Me’
Nashville, TN (March 29, 2019) 19 year-old singer, songwriter Riley Clemmons is unveiling a brand new Christian music single – “Fighting For Me” – today. “Fighting For Me” is set to hit radio on Apr. 19, serving as a follow-up to her breakthrough hit “Broken Prayers” and “Better For It” which received Radio Disney airplay. Play it here: “I sat down with my co-writers and we were thinking about what unites everyone, what do we all want and all have in common,” explains Clemmons. “We landed on the idea that everyone wants love, to be loved and to be fought for. I think that is the beautiful thing about God.…
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New Music from Darlene Zschech
Nashville, TN (March 29, 2019) Integrity Music has released the new song, “Forever My King,” from world-renowned Australian worship leader Darlene Zschech and her New South Wales church, Hope Unlimited (HopeUC). The live-recorded song was captured during the annual HopeUC Worship Gathering last year and features guests Leeland, Dustin Smith and Chardon Lewis. Watch the live video here: “My pursuit of Christ and making Him known is my greatest joy and honour,” shares Darlene Zschech about the new song. “I pray that this song would help gather your heart heavenward as you join with us in declaring ‘Holy is the Lord.’” Each year at the HopeUC Worship Gathering, people from…
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Amanda Lindsey Cook Drops ‘House On A Hill’
Nashville, TN (March 29, 2019) Bethel Music‘s Amanda Lindsey Cook has unveiled her latest, House On A Hill, available now. The product of two months spent tucked away in a secluded house in the wooded hills of Nashville, TN, Amanda both wrote and recorded for the critically acclaimed album, inviting a few close friends into the process including GRAMMY®-winning producers Jason Ingram and Paul Mabury (Lauren Daigle, Cory Asbury), and long-time collaborator Steffany Gretzinger. Called “a true piece of art born from a place of rawness, fragility, and honesty…with a level of intentionality that can only be God-inspired” by The Christian Beat, Hallels adds “all the songs on (House On…
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for KING & COUNTRY Partner with Erwin Brothers on New Film
Santa Monica, CA (March 27, 2019) Kingdom Studios, founded late last year by the creators of I Can Only Imagine, the sleeper hit and top grossing independent film of 2018, unveiled an unprecedented slate of faith based film projects to be developed and produced by Kingdom and released through their recently announced partnership with global content leader Lionsgate. During a two-hour, keynote event held to formally reveal the studio slate at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Anaheim, Kingdom brought several special guests to the stage including the rousing Grammy Award-winning musical group for KING & COUNTRY, pastor Greg Laurie, #1 selling music artist Jeremy Camp, whose life story will…
