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Chart-topper Travis Greene continues to deliver the unexpected as he gears up to release his album Oil Water on August 20. Greene recently released the title track “Oil & Water” (feat. Anthony Hamilton), which is available as an instant grat track with album pre-order now. Two other tracks, “Hold On Me (feat. Kirk Franklin and John P. Kee)” and “Easter (feat. Todd Dulaney),” are also available instantly with album pre-order at digital music providers. In the official music video for “Oil & Water,” Travis Greene celebrates God’s never-ending love, like an outpouring of oil and flowing like water, on the guitar-driven title track. Writing and producing on every track, Greene…

My new house has a blueberry bush. Through our living room window, I see ripening berries. When they get a perfect blue hue, then I’ll know it is time to pluck them off. Yet, there’s one problem to my hypothetical dream… Birds. Pesky little birds keep stealing my fruit. When I see a berry all blue and ready-to-eat, a bird comes along, sits on a branch – and pluck! My luscious berry is gone. In a split-second, my ripe fruit is stolen right off the vine. This situation happens in our spiritual life too. Many of us have ripening fruit in our life (God is growing real things), yet there…

This weekend, for KING & COUNTRY announced their 2021 A Drummer Boy Christmas tour. The 14-city tour will be starting this November and will be ending in December with a special concert and live stream at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. “Merry Christmas… in July! Thrilled to be bringing you the A Drummer Boy Christmas tour, in-person & indoors to 14 cities for the very first time,” for KING & COUNTRY posted. “Looking forward to ringing in the holiday season with you.” Tickets will be going on sale on July 30. You can text PRESALE to 615-257-9555 for the presale code. A list of tour dates is below.…

Recording artist Steven Malcolm is responding to the chaos of the modern moment with his new EP All Is True. All Is True is a collection of message-driven rap songs that double down on his talents as a hip-hop icon, genre-bender, and street-smart storyteller. Listen to All Is True by clicking here. “In a world full of fake news, controlled narratives, and layers of lies, I want to be known as that artist who brings nothing but the truth,” says Malcolm, who recorded the EP’s five tracks during a global pandemic that brought his touring schedule to a halt. Working with Grammy-winning producer Street Symphony and the hip-hop production team…

Nashville’s Cross Point Music released their debut LP, Never Going Back, this week from Centricity Music. Written and recorded by this collective of nearly 400 volunteer musicians, vocalists, and songwriters anchored by worship leaders Mike Grayson and Cheryl Stark, the new seven-song LP is available now at digital and streaming outlets everywhere. Written and recorded during the incredibly tough pandemic season that began right after their main downtown Nashville church campus was largely destroyed by a tornado, Never Going Back is the result of the Cross Point Music team realizing that God has been moving them forward even as the world seemed to stop. “We have learned so much about…

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and Journey band member Jonathan Cain globally released his first solo single of 2021, “Oh Lord Lead Us” from Identity Records with The Fuel Music distribution. The single and companion video that premiered this weekend from Ultimate Classic Rock are from Cain’s upcoming and sixth solo album and continues this iconic artist’s offerings of faith-inspired new music. Produced by Cain, mixed by David Kalmusky, mastered by GRAMMY Award-winning Adam Ayan, and featuring Journey background vocalist Jason Derlatka lifting the chorus into the stratosphere, “Oh Lord Lead Us” was recorded at Cain’s state-of-the-art Addiction Sound Studios in Nashville with select parts done remotely due…

The Protest has released a raucous, rock-show-ready anthem with their new single “Show Up to the Showdown.” The track is a blistering announcement of their upcoming Death Stare EP, due out August 27. Listen to “Show Up to the Showdown” by clicking here. “To win a battle, you have to show up,” The Protest says of the powerhouse song. “It’s about never backing down, standing your ground. Keep pushing on, and you WILL make it through, no matter what!” “Show Up to the Showdown” launched with an accompanying music video, a colorful, cinematic piece that shows the band members in a variety of showdowns. “The video is the most ambitious…

Phil Thompson’s new 11-track album Lion of Judah is out now. His music video for “Redeeming the Years,” also dropped, and it can be viewed by clicking here. It was in 2017 when Phil Thompson stepped forward from behind the songwriting pen and committed to one goal worship. Since then, the Gospel and worship artist has crisscrossed the globe worshipping throughout Ghana, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, the Caribbean Islands, and the U.S., and with the songs found on Lion Of Judah, he is still sharing the same heart of passionate devotion with the world. Writing these songs on the hope and faith rising out of the ashes…

Earlier this month, Christian recording artist Laura Story released a new book titled So Long, Normal Living and Loving the Free Fall of Faith. “I gave up my pursuit of normal a long time ago,” Laura writes. “Surprisingly, I can say this without shame or regret.” Not only was she terrible at trying to be normal, she confesses, but somewhere along the way she realized that “normal” was a vapor. “Whenever it appeared within reach, I was unable to grasp it.” The unattainability of it made her realize that if she did achieve some semblance of normal, she might actually be bending low, settling for something less. “But what if…

“I dare you,” writes acclaimed Christian music artist Natalie Grant and renowned author and speaker Charlotte Gambill in their forthcoming book, Dare to Be God Is Able. Are You Willing? “The challenge that I dare you presents is one we all respond to differently,” they continue. “Some see it as an opportunity to prove themselves, others hear it as a challenge to their competence. Yet it’s often the ‘I dare you’ moments that push us beyond where comfort could keep us and the familiar would fence us in.” Inspiring readers to step into the fullness God designed for them, Natalie and Charlotte challenge readers to re-embrace those “I dare you”…