Artist Spotlight: Casting Crowns
By Laura Greenwood All of the members of Casting Crowns have backgrounds in student ministry. Lead singer, Mark Hall, states “Our songs have always come from our ministry in the church,” and their new album Until the Whole World Hears is no different. On the band’s Web site, Hall talks about how many of the songs came about and how we can see God in all of them.
Artist Spotlight: Tim Hughes
By Claire Walden Numerous artists and hits have emerged out of England, including worship leader Tim Hughes. He is best known for his hit “Here I Am To Worship,” which is arguably one of the most popular, modern worship songs of our time. The hit resulted in two Dove awards, all before the age of 30. His most recent album, “Holding Nothing Back” is comprised of timeless worship songs. One of the stand out tracks off the album is “God of Justice.” The lyrics outline a call to action; he sings that we must continue “stepping forward, keep us from just singing, ...
Artist Spotlight: Steven Curtis Chapman
By Laura Greenwood Steven Curtis Chapman is no stranger to the Christian music industry. His career started over twenty years ago, and since then he has been given Grammies and GMAs. He has provided many inspirational and well-known songs such as, “Dive” and “Magnificent Obsession.” Chapman is also well known as a family man, with a lovely wife and many children. However, in May of 2008 Chapman’s world was rocked to its core. His youngest daughter, Maria, was killed in a tragic accident. At only five years old, Maria was laid to rest in a ceremony filled with love, hope, and ...
Daily Devotions
THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
Our driveway has a drainage problem. It slopes toward the garage, a quirk of the terrain. Rain pools in a mini-lake that in winter freezes into a rink large enough for grandkids to skate on. Sure, we could invest a great deal of money... [Read more of this devotional]
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Increasing Your Workout Intensity
By Don Otis - There is a row of fifty running machines and as many elliptical trainers upstairs at the local L.A. Fitness Club. Below, one can see the dabblers, yawners, flirters, talkers...
The Blessings Of The New Birth
By Warren Mueller What is life like once the Holy Spirit comes to indwell in each Christian believer? In previous articles titled “Do I Pass The Test” and “Am I A Christian”...
Rock Climbing
By Julie Cosgrove Sometimes we need another perspective on things. We can get so caught up in the fog our little world that it can obscure our vision of everything else. We can’t...
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When Fear Comes
By Karen King - “I will praise the Lord, Who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be...
Pass It On
By Susan Dollyhigh Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can...
God on the Spot – Part 3: The Promise
By Dianne E. Butts After God put Himself on the spot by promising to send a Messiah in Genesis 3:15, He then promised to bring that Messiah through the bloodline of one elderly, childless...
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In Like a Lion…?
By Kathi Macias March is one of those in-between months that make planning anything nearly impossible. It doesn’t matter where you live—those hearty folks in Alaska or Minnesota,...
Indians, Bears, and Strange Noises—Oh My!
By Jodi Whisenhunt My family lived in the country when I was a child, on a remote mountain in West Virginia. I don’t know the acreage—didn’t occur to me to care as a little girl—but...
Recline in Peace
By Emily Chase Crack! My husband plunks down on our recliner and breaks the mechanism. The chair now has a severe cant to one side. After years of warning our children not to abuse...
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Book Review: Dead Reckoning
Written by Ronie Kendig Reviewed by Lena Nelson Dooley Back Cover Copy: Trapped by a nuclear terrorist plot in Mumbai! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Book Review: Dead Reckoning", url:...
Artist Spotlight: Casting Crowns
By Laura Greenwood All of the members of Casting Crowns have backgrounds in student ministry. Lead singer, Mark Hall, states “Our songs have always come from our ministry in the church,”...
Book Review: The Pastor’s Wife
Written by Jennifer AlLee Reviewed by Rhonda Clark Being a pastor’s wife wasn’t the life for Maura Sullivan. That’s one the reasons she fled Granger, Ohio six years earlier. Once...
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BREAD OF STONE JOINS SUPERCHICK AND JOHN REUBEN ON ALIVE SPRING TOURNashville, TN — March 10, 2010 – After spending the last few months doing mission work and in the studio recording a new album, Bread of Stone will now change their energy to touring. Following the fall tour with the newsboys, the band visited their homeland, Indonesia, to work with Pastor Yehezkiel, whose church is called Gereja Allah Baik... [Read more of this review]
STARFIELD RELEASES “THE SAVING ONE” TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM AND INTERNATIONAL SUCCESSSparrow Records worship band Starfield dominated itunes charts across the globe last week with its Feb. 23, 2010 release, The Saving One. The album peaked in the Top 5 on the US Christian/Gospel Albums chart as well as on Canada’s Overall Albums chart and Australia’s Overall Albums chart. Read below what critics are saying about the... [Read more of this review]
STELLAR KART FEATURED FREE SONG OF THE WEEK “EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW”Adam Agee shares the inspiration behind “Everything Is Different Now,” the title track from Stellar Kart’s forthcoming March 9, 2010 release: [Read more of this review] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "STELLAR KART FEATURED FREE SONG OF THE WEEK “EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW”", url: "http://www.thechristianpulse.com/2010/03/04/stellar-kart-featured-free-song-of-the-week-everything-is-different-now/"... [Read more of this review]
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