TobyMac’s Christmas This Year is the Contemporary Christian singer-rapper’s 2010 Christmas offering. As early as now, Christian AC radio is, once again, offering TobyMac full support: Christmas This Year is picking up rapidly, with two additional radio pickups. In fairness, Christmas This Year is a fantastic offering, one of the best of this year’s crop of Christmas singles. A great acoustic guitar rhythm, solid sing-along...

Chris August’s Starry Night racks up a full month atop the Billboard Top Christian Songs chart. (I kinda knew that was going to happen; when I first heard Starry Night, I told myself, this song has got to be a hit. No real challengers on the horizon for August, if Radio and Records is to be believed; I thought – and still think, though – that Brandon Heath’s Your Love would be the most likely song to compete, but it seems...

Rising Contemporary Christian star Chris August is currently #1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart – three weeks now – so it seems fitting that he would release a Christmas album in time for the holidays. Radio seems to have taken a liking to Chris August’s Come Now Our King‘s lyrics, which invite Jesus to take His rightful place as ruler of our hearts and lives. Come Now Our King‘s nontraditional beat...

I’m turning 34 in a couple of months, but one of the things I pride myself on is not looking – or acting – my age. I’m 33, but often get mistaken for being in my early to mid-20s. (It’d be more believable if I didn’t tote the dad figure with me all the time.) It’s a combination of a lot of things, really, including great genes and skin stretched tight by my fat. Self-deprecatory jokes aside, I thought...

House of Praise, in collaboration with GannsDeen.com, is pleased to announce our Healer CD Giveaway! Healer features renowned worship artists offering 15 songs of healing, hope and restoration. From Kari Jobe’s title song, Healer, to Don Moen’s Rescue, to Laura Story’s Mighty To Save, these powerful songs create the perfect setting to help listeners know the heart of God and experience His faithfulness in times of need. When I...