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Best Thing I Heard Today: February 4, 2019
Love songs are inescapable, especially around Valentine’s Day, but maybe that’s because love is a mystery too deep for words and any artist in love can’t resist trying. My favorite love songs are less about the thrill of young love and more about the deep, hard-won kind, and JJ Heller captures that in her sweet new single “It’ll Be Alright,” a reflection on 15 years of marriage celebrating the depth, richness, and quiet steadiness that can only build over time. JJ Heller’s “It’ll Be Alright” is the Best Thing I Heard Today! —Jen Rose Yokel
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Residence Music’s Apollo LTD Drops ‘Heaven (All Around You)’
Nashville, TN (February 4, 2019)Residence Music duo Apollo LTD has released a new digital single, “Heaven (All Around You).” The song conveys a Christian’s expression of marital love…and just happened to drop in time for Valentine’s Day. Click the play button above to watch the new song video. About Residence Music Residence, a sub-label of Centricity Music, believes that Christian aritsts have a lot to sing about—even beyond worship radio. It sometimes seems that musicians who want their faith to be part of their musical identities have one option: become Christian-music artists. But Residence Music holds a unique philosophy— one that values artists for both who they want to…
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You Were Made for This: Fight for It
Editor’s note: Who are we? Why are we here? What’s the purpose? What are we supposed to be doing? Those questions can haunt women and stall us from moving forward in joy and with passion using the gifts we have to affect the lives of others for the Kingdom of God. The following excerpt from… The post You Were Made for This: Fight for It appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Killing Sin
Killing Sin Is Confirmation I love airports. For many they are a source of stress, but for me they are a respite. I think it is the camaraderie of so many people on a similar journey, submitting to a similar process. Before you enter the terminal there are many steps through which every passenger must… The post Killing Sin appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Taste and See Week 3 — Chewing on the Bread of Life
By the sweat of your face you will eat bread (you will eat your food). — God to Adam in Genesis 3:19 The Bread of Life came to change the way we live life. ~ Margaret Feinberg Welcome to week three of the Taste and See Online Bible Study with Margaret Feinberg. Bread. Bread. And… The post Taste and See Week 3 — Chewing on the Bread of Life appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Surrender Is Scary
I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. — John 12:24-25 ESV A seed comes from the… The post Surrender Is Scary appeared first on FaithGateway.
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When You Believe in God but Not in Prayer
A pastor once asked his church to pray that God would shut down a neighborhood bar. The whole church gathered for an evening prayer meeting, pleading with God to rid the neighborhood of the evils of this bar. A few weeks later, lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground. Having heard about… The post When You Believe in God but Not in Prayer appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Grace: Getting What We Don’t Deserve
One of my dear friends, Elizabeth, came from an exceptionally broken and destructive family—a family whose experience included prison, abuse, and suicide. At sixteen years old, Elizabeth cried in anger to her mentor, “This is not fair! I don’t deserve this family, this life!” Most of us would agree with this outcry from a sweet teenage girl subjected to such a life. Elizabeth’s mentor knew Jesus, and . . . replied, “You’re right. You don’t deserve this life. You deserve hell and death, and so do I. God’s gracious love for us provided a Savior who took our sins and died for them. He didn’t deserve death, and we don’t deserve life. It…
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Still in the Game: Hail Mary
Leah’s surgery was scheduled for September 25, right in the middle of our bye week. Even that felt like God nodding at us. As if the big man upstairs took a look at the NFL schedule when considering when Leah should get her surgery and timed everything just right, so we all could be together… The post Still in the Game: Hail Mary appeared first on FaithGateway.
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SWINGIN HAMMERS RELEASING NEW SINGLE ‘HANGMAN’
Nashville, TN, based Folk Rock artist Swingin Hammers, real name Benjamin Rupe, releases his new single ‘Hangman‘ on February 1, 2019. Swingin Hammers pens songs with the seriousness of writing an epitaph. “I’m made to carry the heavy things,” says Benjamin, who took on the moniker Swingin Hammers at the start of 2017, when Rupe’s purpose as a singer/songwriter became clear. “I can’t handle a feather, but I can handle a tombstone.” The entertaining live performances of Swingin Hammers might deceive just how weighty Rupe’s lyrics are, but each Swingin Hammers song testifies that he knows exactly what he’s doing and what he’s not doing, in lockstep with his mission as…
