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RCA Inspiration Celebrates A Winning Night At The 2020 BET Awards
Nashville, TN (June 29, 2020) RCA Inspiration celebrated a winning night at the 2020 BET Awards, with Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul/RCA) winning the Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel Inspirational Award, for his #1 hit “Just For Me,” featured off his hit album, LONG LIVE LOVE. Franklin made an appearance on the show as well. Kierra Sheard also made an appearance on the BET Awards broadcast, delivering an awe-inspiring performance of her song “Something Has To Break,” off her chart-topping album KIERRA (Karew Entertainment/RCA Inspiration). Joined by her mother the inimitable Karen Clark Sheard, on the closing performance, Kierra Sheard and Karen Clark Sheard’s explosive vocal prowess created an iconic…
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Worship Leader Kim Walker-Smith Set To Release Solo Live Album
NASHVILLE, TENN. (JUNE 26, 2020) After a three year hiatus since her last solo album, Jesus Culture’s Kim Walker-Smith will release her new live album, Wild Heart, on August 14th. Today she shares the first track, “Protector,” which is available here as well as below. Wild Heart explores themes of life, beginning again, and returning to our First Love, and is a collection of live recorded songs and moments that are joyful, raw, honest, and intimate. “My last record, On My Side, was a collection of songs written from a desert season of my life. I was processing grief, anger, and pain. God met me in the desert and brought…
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Few Words, Big Difference
God answers prayers, but our prayers may not always come easy. Not too long ago, I rode down a long highway. A kid had to go to the bathroom. We stopped at a rest stop. There, I noticed 3 girls standing outside the bathroom looking aimless, dizzy almost. I walked past them, but felt a check in my spirit. Were they okay? There were two pre-teens and one crying toddler who looked disoriented. I hesitated and didn’t talk to them, figuring I’d check on them after I got out of the bathroom. The only thing was — after I got out of the bathroom they were (poof!) gone. A distance…
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Flying Solo by Zoe May
Wonderful Flying Solo by Zoe May is a deliciously fun contemporary novel about discovering just what you want in life. Life is not all about ticking off events on a list. Life is to be experienced and enjoyed. We need to discover our passion in life and live for what we were created for. Swapping […]
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Get Out of Your Head Week 3 — Weapons We Use, Part I
This has been the hardest thing for me: to sit still, all alone and there’s a reason for it. Because real, connected, intimate time with Jesus is the very thing that grows our faith, shifts our minds, brings about revival in our souls, and brings about revival in our communities. And, so the devil hates… The post Get Out of Your Head Week 3 — Weapons We Use, Part I appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Tiny Pieces Of Us by Nicky Pellegrino
Like Ordinary People Tiny Pieces Of Us by Nicky Pellegrino is a beautiful contemporary novel that will lodge in your heart and soul. The central theme of the novel is organ donation. This is a difficult theme, sensitively portrayed. The reader sees lives affected by those who received donated organs and the one who made […]
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The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
The Blackbird Girls takes readers to the shadow of Chernobyl and the world’s worst nuclear disaster. The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman. Viking, 2020, 334 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12 Recommended for: ages 10-15 The City of Pripyat, Ukraine, is one of the more prosperous in the Soviet Union because many of its citizens work at the nearby nuclear plant (known informally as Chernobyl). But the Saturday morning in April when Valentine Kaplan wakes up to a red sky in the south, she knows something is wrong. A closer look reveals what it is: the power station is on fire. And her father, who works the night shift,…
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The Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan
Swashbuckling adventure with mythical Medieval Vikings? Sign me up. The Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan. Philomel, 2011-present. Reading Level: Ages 12-15Recommended For: Ages 12 and up About the Brotherband Chronicles’ Story Hal Mikkelson is half Araluen and half Skandian. He’s all outcast. In a society of Viking-esque, burly fighters like the Skandians, a skinny inventor-type naturally doesn’t fit in. When the coming-of-age Brotherband training arrives, Hal forms a team of similar outcasts: boys who each have something that sets them apart from mainstream Skandian society. Their “coach”? Thorn, also an outcast, but an outcast with a lengthy history as one of Skandia’s most formidable warriors–before he lost his hand, that…
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Are You Headed the Wrong Way?
Today, I completely missed my turn. I took a new route to the supermarket and, because I thought the entrance would look the same as before, I drove right past it. I knew the store would be on the left. However, because I came from a different direction, it was on the right. Because I expected an old thing, I missed the new. Likewise, many of us — looking for an old thing — miss God’s new. We expect people to hurt us like yesterday, so we stay in our house, away from relationship and, yet again — we are hurt. We expect our finances to never change, so we don’t bother changing…
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In The Garden Of Beasts by Erik Larson
Chilling In The Garden Of Beasts by Erik Larson is a fascinating yet horrifying account of American ambassador to Berlin, William Dodd, after his appointment in summer of 1933. The book charts the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. Hitler is described by Dodd’s daughter as “a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin… could […]
