Contemporary Christian artist Beckah Shae completes one of the longest rises to #1 in recent memory on my Top 10, with Life rising to #1 in its seventh week on the chart. (In contrast, The Museum’s My Help Comes From the Lord debuted at #1 the same week Life debuted.) New in the chart is Jonathan Nelson’s Expect the Great, the first pure gospel song to debut in my Top 10 since Israel Houghton’s Turn It Around in...

Chris Tomlin’s Our God registers five weeks atop Billboard’s Top Christian Songs chart, with no signs of slowing down and no immediate challengers to the throne anywhere in sight. Very little movement again – the first six positions remain unchanged – tells me that Our God could stay on top for at least another three weeks. Four new songs enter the chart this week: Third Day’s Lift Up Your Face (#39), Group 1...

Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter Natalie Grant is back with Human, the first single off Love Revolution (Curb Records), which drops on August 24, 2010. (That’s three months before Grant and her husband Bernie Herms welcome their third child to the world.) Co-written with American Idol Season Six winner Jordin Sparks, Human‘s lyrics deal with our God-given social responsibility to love and care for others. My favorite Natalie...

I was so moved by the message of Nigerian preacher Grace Aiyedogbon that I just had to set some of my favorite parts to music. Such power in her message, she’s a fantastic...

Every once in a while, I post personal updates on myself. It doesn’t quite help with the overall direction of the blog, but I really feel it’s important to share some revelations God gave me over the course of the Every Nation World Conference last July 22 to 24. These were among some of the things that were revealed to me: 1. Grace Aiyedogbon shared an inspiring message titled The Banquet Table of the Lord. While several parts of...