Today is the seventh and final day of the prayer and fasting activity at the church in Greenhills for whom I work. Over the course of the past few days, I have consciously spent more time with God, wrestling with Him and talking to Him about my plans for 2011 and beyond. Two days ago, I received a word from Him, a gentle reminder, if you will, that really spoke to me and characterized how I felt about my relationship with Him thus far. Anyone...

Contemporary Christian superstar band Third Day has released a second single from its new CD, Move. After the first single, Lift Up Your Face, stalled at #12, Children of God seems primed to make a much more powerful impact than its predecessor. For one thing, Children of God is more faithful to Third Day’s Christian rock roots, yet is soaring with its anthemic chorus and singalong bridge. For another thing, a children’s choir...

Fresh off his #1 hit, Starry Night, Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Chris August has released another single from his stellar debut CD, No Far Away. 7×70 is a collaboration between August and frequent Chris Tomlin collaborator Ed Cash, a deeply personal recounting of the family dynamic under which the latter grew up. Being the product of a broken home, August prayed deeply for Seven Times Seventy, asking the Holy Spirit to be with...

Yeah, I’ll say it: Contemporary Christian superstar Francesca Battistelli’s This is the Stuff, off her sophomore CD, Hundred More Years, dropping across the United States on March 1, 2011, is a virtually guaranteed #1 hit. (Suddenly, I’m a little unnerved for Mandisa’s Stronger.) After Francesca Battistelli’s debut CD, My Paper Heart, yielded two #1 Christian AC hits (I’m Letting Go and Free to Be Me), she...

Contemporary Christian superstar Mandisa is releasing Stronger, the first single off her third studio CD, What If We Were Real, which drops all across the USA on April 5, 2011. Stronger will be released to Christian AC radio this Friday, January 7, although some street date violations have resulted in Stronger now showing up on Radio and Records’ airplay chart. (Jeff Cruz of ZRadio in Florida tweeted that they’re already spinning...