I just received this video from a friend of mine who I grew up with as a child. I didn’t realize it but their daughter had a little bit of cancer scare with a bone tumor that was removed from her arm. She made this video for a church talent contest. It’s a great story and a great song.Read More →
One of my favorite sites to read more about Christian music is the HearItFirst website. They’ve always got some great promotions going on and if you subscribe to their email newsletter you can add some great, free Christian music to your collection. Tomorrow night you’ll have the ability to watch Michael W. Smith’s performance of "A New Hallelujah" streaming live from the HearItFirst website.Read More →
Here’s a new group from Tooth & Nail Records. This is a really rocking group with a metal edge mixed with great female vocals like Evanescence. Here’s the group members for The Letter Black: Sarah Anthony – vocals Mark Anthony – vocals and guitar Matt Beal – bass guitar Mat Slagle – percussion TJ – guitarRead More →
Wendy Francisco is no stranger to Christian Music. After all, she is married to Don Francisco who penned “He’s alive!” often played every year around Easter Sunday. This video has been floating around the web for the last month or so, but I thought of it this morning because this last week my family got a new puppy, an eight week old red cocker spaniel pup we named “Rogin” (after the red dwarf in Chronicles of Narnia – The Last Battle). This now makes two dogs. ;) As a side note, The Francisco’s website has about 135 free songs you can download for free fromRead More →
I grew up on Christian Music. I am not that old. I’m not yet thirty (so the picture is my dad with Michael Card, not me) but I remember twenty-five years of Christian music. I was at the first Cornerstone Music Festival in 1984 albeit I was three years old. A few months later, my dad and I moved to Jesus People USA in Chicago and lived there for about eight months. At bedtime growing up, my dad would play different songs on his guitar for me in place of the traditional storytime. My mom on the other hand was a Choir director at theRead More →