My colleague Jay Palacpac and I worked on a few remixes based on the recently concluded Every Nation Conference 2010 at the SMX Center in Pasay City, Philippines. Jay remixed the conference theme, God Who Reigns, and I set the highlights of two preachers, Nigeria’s Grace Aiyedogbon and Nashville’s Steve Murrell. Feel free to download any of these EN2010 remixes here. :) Download God Who Reigns Remix by Jay Palacpac Download Grace...

Miss Universe 2010 is about to kick off, and this year’s batch of beauties is one of the best in recent memory. (Either that, or the countries participating have really topnotch Photoshop artists.) There’s so much talent and so much beauty in this particular batch that I had a difficult time picking 20 girls, when normally, I’m happy with five to eight. I’ve found, though, that my taste varies from the rest of the...

Quote me on this: Audrey Assad’s Restless is one of the best worship ballads of 2010. I featured her a few months ago when her debut single, For the Love of You, was released. For the Love of You was a remarkable single, but Restless is absolutely gorgeous! I wholeheartedly recommend it, two thumbs up, three if I had ‘em. According to an interview on HearItFirst.com, for Restless, Audrey and co-writer Matt Maher holed themselves up...

Contemporary Christian pop-rock group The Afters score their first #1 hit on my personal chart with Light Up the Sky, which ascends to the top in its sixth frame. Last week’s leader, Beckah Shae’s Life, tumbles to fifth place. Two new debuts mark the charts this week: Contemporary Christian superstar Matthew West marks his comeback as My Own Little World enters at #8, but even more noteworthy is the #2 debut of Audrey Assad’s...

This July, GannsDeen.com is giving away a gift pack featuring TreeHugger gift items (the proceeds of which go to benefiting the Haribon Foundation) and a Swirl Card from my favorite coffee shop, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. The winner is also receiving a copy of Freedom, the sophomore album from Contemporary Christian star Mandisa! Yay! (I’m sorry for the delay in the results. I was swamped the past two weeks.) The rules were you simply...