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God Has a New Name for You in the New Year
I’ve been a Christian a long time. I remember praying the sinners prayer many times in hopes that God would extend ongoing grace and forgiveness to me and accept me as His daughter. After some time, I learned I didn’t have to pray this prayer over and over again, and I discovered that God adopted… The post God Has a New Name for You in the New Year appeared first on FaithGateway.
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How to Set Family Goals: Becoming a Family with Purpose
Have you set any family goals or resolutions for the new year? I like the word goals better than resolutions. New Year’s resolutions always seem doomed to fail, and if you don’t start on January 1 or fall off the bandwagon by January 3, you feel defeated. But goals? Goals can be set anytime, and… The post How to Set Family Goals: Becoming a Family with Purpose appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
In verse and prose, Becoming Muhammad Ali traces the early life of Cassius Clay, “The greatest” heavyweight boxer ever. Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander, Illustrated by David Anyabwile. Little, Brown (Jimmy Patterson) and HMH, 2020, 305 pages Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12 Recommended for: ages 10-14 Cassius clay was the greatest, and the prettiest, and the wittiest—if we limit the field to heavyweight boxing champs. Even outside that narrow field, though, he was special. Growing up in Louisville during the days of Jim Crow and segregation, he knew he was fast. As a teen, he knew he could punch. As a black youth, he knew…
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Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewel Parker Rhodes
Donte, the “Black Brother” of a biracial family, must decide if his identity will be based on his color or on his character. Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewel Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, 2020, 233 pages Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12 Recommended for: ages 10-15 Life was better for Donte in Boston, where the white population was one of many ethnic colors. Now that his biracial parents have moved to the suburbs, the prep school Donte and his older brother Trey attend is even whiter than their neighborhood. Olive-skinned Trey fits in: he aces his classes and stars in basketball. Donte not only sticks out but is also labeled…
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Carrie Underwood Announces Upcoming Gospel Album
Recently on social media, it was announced that singer/songwriter Carrie Underwood will be releasing her debut gospel album titled My Savior “just in time for Easter,” featuring some of Carrie’s favorite gospel songs. Carrie recently released a Christmas album called My Gift featuring multiple Christian holiday classics, and she describes this upcoming gospel album as a companion to the new Christmas album. “When I was making this music, I felt like my soul was in such a great place, I wanted to keep making music like the music off of ‘My Gift,'” Carrie shared in a video on Instagram. “It’s just been such a blessing to make music like this,…
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Hard Rock Band Collision Of Innocence Announces Re-Recording
Colission of Innocence, a Christian hard rock band from South Carolina, is re-recording the first single they released in February of 2018, called “In Between.” The “remix” is releasing January 4, 2020 to all streaming services. “In Between” is the first of many singles to follow, ten to be exact. This will be the first “remix” the band has released. Throughout their music career, Collision Of Innocence have earned over a million combined streams and been played on hundreds of rock stations. “In Between” is a song about the conflict of ourselves and the hope of eternity, as the chorus says I am at the end of my rope/Breathe into…
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4x Grammy Winners for KING AND COUNTRY Defy Genres Country Rendition
Nashville, TENN. On December 31st, four-time GRAMMY® award-winning duo and Curb Word Entertainment recording artist for KING & COUNTRY released “TOGETHER (The Country Collaboration),” a brand-new rendition of their multi-week No. 1 hit. Joel and Luke Smallbone are joined by country singer/songwriters Hannah Ellis and Jackson Michelson, putting the globally recognized track against a lush backdrop of violins, steel guitars, and banjos. “In a time where this virus is not isolated to one people group or country or social class it has become the great equalizer,” shares Joel and Luke Smallbone. “It is helping us all reconsider this beautiful concept that we all bleed the same blood. And if we…
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Apollo LTD Announces Sophomore Album ‘Nothing Is Ordinary, Everything Is Beautiful’
Residence/Centricity Music’s cinematic, alternative-pop duo Apollo LTD blurs the horizon between organic music and electronic soundscapes on its sophomore LP Nothing is Ordinary, Everything is Beautiful releasing Feb. 5. Available to preorder now, the album features uplifting anthems about resilience and resolve, each dreamt into existence by bandmates Jordan Phillips and Adam Stark, two collaborative producers and songwriters who have learned to keep a steady perspective during unstable times. Wide-armed, Technicolor music that is built to move, punctuated by messages that pack as powerful a punch as the EDM drops, pulsing drumbeats and singalong choruses that push each track skyward, Nothing is Ordinary, Everything is Beautiful is music for clubs,…
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Turn Your Season Around: Receive God’s Grace
By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 I had everything but I had nothing. As the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year and a perennial All-Star throughout… The post Turn Your Season Around: Receive God’s Grace appeared first on FaithGateway.
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The Old Rugged Cross
So I’ll cherish the old rugged Cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged Cross, And exchange it some day for a crown. George Bennard was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1873, less than forty-five minutes from my own hometown of Alliance. He also happened to… The post The Old Rugged Cross appeared first on FaithGateway.
