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Together We Love Live Event Coming February 26
Public voting for the 7TH ANNUAL WE LOVE CHRISTIAN MUSIC AWARDS closed last month with over 22,000 votes cast in 23 categories. The awards now head to Memphis, TN where winners will be announced live from the campus of Visible Music College (http//www.visible.edu), a returning sponsor of the awards. Fans can watch the 90-minute show at www.Facebook.com/NewReleaseToday starting at 9PM ET/8PM CT on Tuesday, February 26, 2019. The ceremony aims to celebrate not just the winners, as chosen by the fans, but all of the artists and groups nominated in this year’s awards. The show will feature special acoustic performances of medleys comprised of songs from nominated artists and albums…
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Andrew Peterson Prepares for Second Annual Resurrection Letters Tour
Dove Award-nominated recording artist, songwriter, filmmaker, and award-winning author Andrew Peterson prepares for his second annual Resurrection Letters Tour, with most tour dates booked and tickets going fast (available here). Featuring indie artist Taylor Leonhardt and special guest Skye Peterson, the tour runs April 5 through May 11. The tour will reflect a wide span of Peterson’s music catalogue, with special focus on his critically acclaimed albums Resurrection Letters Prologue, Volume 1 and Volume 2. The record trilogy poignantly explores the event and surrounding themes of Christ’s resurrection, along with its glorious implications for our lives today. Leading into the Easter season, Peterson notes this tour-set as a favorite of…
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Fiction Friday featuring Denise Hunter
Editor’s note: It’s Fiction Friday! If you’re in the mood for romance, you’re going to fall head over heels for the books in Denise Hunter’s faith-based series, where some of the leading men are cowboys (and pastors). Denise Hunter, the internationally published bestselling author of more than 30 Christian romance novels, including “The Convenient Groom” and… The post Fiction Friday featuring Denise Hunter appeared first on FaithGateway.
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How to Silence the Negative Voices In Our Daughters’ Heads
Last year, during one of those miraculously divine appointments that only our great God can arrange, a beautiful, bright-eyed college student walked into my life. As I’ve gotten to know this young lady, I’ve discovered that God has blessed her with a multitude of gifts. She’s smart, sensitive and compassionate. She possesses a heart… The post How to Silence the Negative Voices In Our Daughters’ Heads appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Jesus’ Tears Give You Permission to Shed Your Own
Martha sat in a damp world, cloudy, tearful. And Jesus sat in it with her. I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in Me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again. — John 11:25 NLT Hear those words in a Superman tone, if you like. Clark Kent descending from… The post Jesus’ Tears Give You Permission to Shed Your Own appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Are You Experiencing A Dry Season?
Are you going through a dry season? Maybe you are waiting for God’s help with your health, with your children, with your work situation or within your household. . . Maybe you’ve been calling out to God for years. . . Like an arrow to your heart today, I hope to send you one simple message: don’t lose hope. God cares for you. Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. (1 Pet 5:7) God knows exactly what you are facing. The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man. (Ps. 33:13) God is near and hears. The LORD is close to all who call…
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Innocence Denied by Mike Garrett
A Life Of Love Innocence Denied by Michael Garrett is a contemporary Christian thriller that has its roots in God and in love. It is a beautiful love story – the love of one man who is motivated by loyalty, love and kindness. He believes he needs to leave a legacy and that legacy is […]
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Christians and Mental Illness: an Interview with Simonetta Carr
The author of Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends them shares further insights about her experience with schizophrenia. Our readers are familiar with Simonetta’s many excellent biographies for young people. Last Friday we reviewed her latest book, a memoir of her experience with her son’s schizophrenia. Today she joins us for an interview: 1. Looking back on your three-year struggle with Jonathan’s illness, what do you see as your greatest enemy in that struggle? How was it overcome? It was probably fear. Schizophrenia is such an unpredictable and incomprehensible illness. I never knew what to expect or what was going on in my son’s mind. And he often seemed…
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*Monster Blood Tattoo Trilogy by D. M. Cornish
Foundling, Lamplighter, and Factotum by D. M. Cornish. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006-2010. Ages 12 & up. Reading Level: Young Adult, ages 12-14 Recommended for: ages 12 & up Book One: Foundling Rossamund Bookchild dreams of being a vinegaroon, one of the crusty sailors who sails the acid-laced, monster-ridden vinegar seas of the Half Contintent. It’s not an unlikely dream considering he has grown up at Madame Opera’s Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls. Two of his favorite teachers are old salts. Yet as readers realize within the first chapter when the school bully trounces and injures Rossamund in a fight, Rossamund is hardly militant. No, Rossamund is a dreamer and a…
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4 New Multicultural Picture Books: Gratitude, Island Culture, Rap, and Hannukah!
Several of these picture books recently won awards (or honors) in the ALA YMA in January. And one of them is brand new, hot-off-the-press in 2019. All of them celebrate different cultures from each other, and different cultures from traditional American majority culture. And all are worth checking out from your local library! Thank You, Omu! by One Mora. Little, Brown, 2018. 40 pages. Thank You, Omu! is a delightful twist on the story of Stone Soup. In the original folktale, three visitors to a community make soup from their stones–and the various offerings the villagers end up bringing. In Thank You, Omu!, Omu ends up giving away all of her soup to those around her. At the end of the story, she has no soup.…
