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True Love’s Endurance
Editor’s Note: Today’s devotional is excerpted from A Jane Austen Devotional, beginning with this selection from Mansfield Park. Enjoy! Once, and once only, in the course of many years, had [Fanny] the happiness of being with [her brother] William. Of the rest she saw nothing: nobody seemed to think of her ever going amongst… The post True Love’s Endurance appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Fit For A King Announces 2020 World Tour
Christian-based metalcore band Fit For a King has announced the first part of their 2020 Dark Skies World Tour with supporting acts Alpha Wolf, Crystal Wolf, and metal giants Chelsea Grin. “We are pleased to announce the first portion of the Dark Skies World Tour. We’re thrilled to have our friends Chelsea Grin, Crystal Lake, and Alpha Wolf apart of the tour,” the band shared. VIP and limited venue pre-sale tickets are available now at http//ffak.soundrink.com and GA tickets will go on sale Friday at 10am local time.[…]
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Video Premiere Dinner Conversations 2019 Christmas Special
Dinner Conversations, a podcast/video series where award-winning musicians and storytellers Mark Lowry & Andrew Greer invite their favorite artists, authors and thinkers to talk around the dinner table on a variety of topics, has released their 2019 Christmas special, premiering exclusively with NewReleaseToday. The full episode is available below now, and is set to be released on Amazon Prime as well as all podcast outlets next week. The episode features legendary group Point of Grace as hosts Mark Lowry and Andrew Greer join Denise, Leigh, and Shelley to celebrate 20 years of making holiday music. Over the course of the special, the group performs four Christmas songs, Including a very…
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Billboard Names Switch No. 1 New Christian Artist of the Year
Life.Church’s group, Switch, has had a blessed year as a breakout group in the Christian music industry. The group debuted their first album on DREAM Records in February 2019 and immediately saw their single, “Symphony (feat. Dillon Chase)” make an impact in radio. Now, with a national audience of over 300 million and nearly 30 million streams, Switch has been named Billboard’s No. 1 New Christian Artist of the Year for 2019. “This honor is incredibly humbling and unexpected,” said JT Murrell, who oversees worship and album production at Life.Church. “We never could have imagined what God would do through Switch this year, but we’re so grateful to be a…
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for KING & COUNTRY’s ‘Little Drummer Boy’ is #1 on Billboard Charts
Two-time GRAMMY® Award winning duo for KING & COUNTRY continue to see an unprecedented reaction from their performance of “Little Drummer Boy” on CMA Country Christmas, which aired on Dec. 3rd on ABC. According to Billboard, the duo’s take on the Christmas classic has seen a 1,338% increase in downloads, a 60% increase in on-demand streams, and sits atop Billboard’s Christian Digital Songs chart along with three more songs reaching the Top 15. They entered Billboard’s Holiday Digital Songs chart at #2, reached Top 10 in all three iTunes All Genre chart categories, and currently hold the No. 1 position in all three iTunes Christian chart categories. The video of…
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Nashville Label Group Celebrates Banner Year
Culminating its first full year of operations, Nashville Label Group–the multi-genre, multi-imprint conglomerate founded and helmed by Seventh Day Slumber’s Joseph Rojas–celebrated a number of key milestones in 2019. Leading the accolades is RockFest Records’ flagship artist, Seventh Day Slumber, whose May 31 critically-acclaimed set, Closer To Chaos, garnered the biggest release week sales for the label since its formation. Produced by Seventh Day Slumber’s Jeremy Holderfield as well as Disciple’s Josiah Prince, Closer To Chaos debuted on multiple Christian and mainstream sales charts while its lead single, “Alive Again,” was a #1 hit on Christian rock radio. The project tackles a range of timely issues, including emotional trauma, self-worth…
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A Better Broken
Messy Endings When songwriters are trying to figure something out, they often write a song about it. The song I wrote was called “I Can Just Be Me.” The lyrics begin with me trying to do everything but not measuring up. Then in the chorus I ask God to be everything that I can’t be. … The post A Better Broken appeared first on FaithGateway.
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3-Step Decision Making
My husband said to me, “Kelly, you need to be more straightforward with people. Answer with an outright ‘no’ when you know you need to say ‘no.’ I mulled over his words, considering them. He had a good point. I have a hard time saying no. I want to make everyone happy. I don’t want to let people down. My central goal is to leave them encouraged. And to avoid feeling unlikable. To avoid dealing with those awful residual icky feelings of knowing a person may not want me anymore, think highly of me, or desire to be my friend. Or worst yet, they talk behind my back and form…
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How to Lose Everything and Find Peace
Austin Carlile walked into our interview owning exactly three suitcases worth of belongings. He had lost everything else, even his mother’s ashes. Before this, he had risen to fame as the lead vocalist of the hit band Of Mice & Men. But he soon found only God could give him peace. And that is worth… The post How to Lose Everything and Find Peace appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Deer in the Headlights
I was driving home after running errands in the harsh light of a box store — busy and loud — during the Christmas season. Dusk was upon the earth — that darkness that comes on gradually, the settling of night I’ve come to love, the ending of a day, after the sun sets behind the… The post Deer in the Headlights appeared first on FaithGateway.
