This just in: Hillsong United hits movie theaters across the U.S. in November with the event, "Hillsong United: We're All In This Together." The event happens Wednesday, November 4th at 7:30 p.m. EST / 6:30 p.m. CST / 5:30 p.m. MST and 8:00 p.m. PST.
The event will feature a live introduction by lead singer Joel Houston, followed by a performance from Hillsong United pre-recorded in Sydney the previous night at their home church, and will conclude with the debut of their cause-based documentary "The I Heart Revolution: We're All In This Together."
According to the press release, "The I Heart Revolution: We're All in This Together" documentary is the second of the three-part "The I Heart Revolution" project - a movement of people helping people.
Third Day's Mac Powell teamed up with speaker/author David Nasser to provide listeners with truths taken from Scripture in Glory Revealed, one of 2007's most popular albums. And now they're back with Glorly Revealed II: The Word of God in Worship.
The album features 12 original songs written from Scripture during a week-long artist retreat, with vocals from 21 Contemporary Christian, Southern Gospel and Country music artists including Mac Powell, Jason Crabb, Mark Hall, Amy Grant, Sara Evans, Shane & Shane, Natalie Grant, Matt Maher and Brandon Heath.
You can have a free download of the song "Since The World Began", featuring Matt Maher, Amy Grant, Ed Cash, Mac Powell, for this week only.
The song is based on Isaih 64:1-9:
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In our weekly Cooking With Christian Music feature, worship leader Frances Drost shares a recipe for one of her husband's favorite meals. "It's called Chicken Parmesan," she says. "But you could call it, 'I'm sorry I have to be on the road again, but here's your favorite meal to make up for it'"
Verizon Wireless is once again searching for the best church choir in America in its How Sweet the Sound competition. Donald Lawrence will be returning as host and Marvin Sapp will be back as judge and performer.
The competition starts with regional competitions in eleven cities nationwide, where one choir has the chance to win $10,000 in the regional event and up to $50,000 overall. After the regional events are over, all eleven choirs will join together for the grand finale where all the choirs will compete for the chance to win over $25,000 in cash and prizes and the title of The Best Church Choir in America.
Beliefnet's Nicole Symmonds did a great interview with Israel Houghton this week. Israel talks about his new album, The Power of One.
The Power Of One is Houghton's first solo studio offering after a string of highly successful New Breed live concert projects and features guest vocals from such genre-leading artists as tobyMac, Martin Smith of Delirious?, Mary Mary and Chevelle Franklyn.
You can get a free download of the song "The Power Of One (Change The World)" at iTickets.com.
The album releases today. For more about Israel Houghton, visit his website.
A press release this morning announced that "1in3Trinity, a Faith-inspired company of lifestyle products, is proud to announce that it has signed worship band SONICFLOOd to endorse their newly released faith-inspired energy drink, 1in3Trinity Energy Drink." Yes, you read it...
When I told you about the Juno Awards recently, I mentioned that I hadn't heard of the band Life Support. So I contacted the band to get some info, and I think you'll be happy to meet this group...
Worship artist Kari Jobe asked YouTube users to submit video clips sharing their stories and why they're still singing. It's a beautiful video and a beautifl song, and a wonderful reminder that, in any circumstance, with God by our...
Lifeway Christian Resources, the research and publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, has introduced a new resource that will allow users to customize songs and produce sheet music. SongMap allows users to transpose keys, change the order of the...
This March, Big Idea will release the VeggieTales Here I Am To Worship album, featuring Bob, Larry and Junior Asparagus along with the Gospel Music Association's three-time "Female Vocalist of the Year" Dove Award winner Natalie Grant and "2007 Artist...
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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recently honored songwriter Brenton Brown for his song "Everlasting God" at their awards ceremony in London. The event honored the top writer and publisher members of the UK's Performing Right Society...
Hillsong United will be touring the US in 2009, bringing their Hillsong United Encounter to Miami and Los Angeles and performing worship events as well. The Miami Hillsong United Encounter will be held April 17-18 at the Miami Bank United...
Over on Beliefnet's The New Christians blog, which is a really interesting blog that talks about the emergent church and culture, blogger Tony Jones pointed his readers to a free download of an album from an "Anglimergent" church called Church...
Thanksgiving is the wonderful holiday that not only leads into the season celebrating the birth of Christ but gives us an entire day to give thanks. And eat. A lot. I asked some of your favorite and up-and-coming Christian music...
My friend Dave Weiss, ever on the lookout for new and unusual forms of artistic expression, shared the above video with me yesterday. It's a performance art piece of sorts from the worship band at Fellowship Church in Grapevine,...
I told you yesterday about a creepy video made by Obama supporters that used the worship song Sanctuary as a soundtrack for dozens of people chanting Barak Obama, with a New Age mantra scrolling across the screen. The video...
Hillsong London releases their latest album, Hail To The King, next week. It's their first album in three years and the third album from the churcn. Amidst all of the nifty PR bits about Hillsong London that were included...
Glenn Beck highlighted a video on his show this morning, and frankly I just about fell over. It's since been taken off YouTube.com but I'll keep looking for another link. (Found it: see the video in this post.) The ManifestObama.com...
I had a chance to chat with Chris Tomlin recently about his new project, Hello Love. When it released in September, the album took the No. 9 spot on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart and was the highest charting iTunes...
This just in! Rock worship band Downhere will be peforming at the Block Party at Belmont University Tuesday afternoon as part of the Presidential Debate festivities. The band says the party starts at noon and ends at 6pm, and they'll...
Chris Tomlin will head out in January for his 'Hello Love Tour,' featuring Israel Houghton and New Breed. The tour is in support of Tomlin's latest album, Hello Love, which took the No. 9 spot on Billboard's Top 200 Album...
One of my favorite rock worship bands, Starfield, heads out next week for their first ever headlining US tour. The band, which hails from Canada, has has toured with great artists for several years, and spent the summer performing in...
Ray Boltz returns to Nashville to headline the Our Family Matters conference, October 22-25, 2008, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville. The four-day conference offers a contemporary Christian perspective on being gay and Christian. Also performing will be worship...
Over the last couple of weeks, I'd asked both Integrity and Hillsong if they had any comments on the Michael Guglielmucci story, and if there was any word on whether they were going to remove the song "Healer" from the...
Hillsong has made the decision to re-edit their latest DVD to remove the video clips of Michael Guglielmucci talking about his battle with cancer, which makes sense, considering he's been faking illness for two years. They are also considering if...
Since this is technically a holiday, I'm just going to drop in a tell you about something that happened to me this weekend that kind of wraps up last week's discussion about Mike Gugliellmucci, the commerce of Christianity and celebrity-ism....
I gave you a transcript today of 7 minutes of Michael Guglielmucci from the Hillsong DVD. This video clip offers a good, overall summary of the story, along with Guglielmucci talking in an exclusive interview. The clips of him with...
You heard right. In August 5th, Hillsong released their 17th album "Hillsong Live: This Is Our God" and included on the DVD is a documentary that includes a fairly lengthy segment of Michael Guglielmucci talking about his cancer and worship...
A few months ago, while doing a cover story for the Christian Voice Magazine on the Compassionart project headed by Delirious frontman Martin Smith, I had a chance to chat with worship leader Paul Baloche, who took part in the...
In a post yesterday about former Planetshaker's Michael Guglielmucci (who wrote many of the band's songs) and his admission that he had been lying for two years about having cancer to cover his addiction to porn, I threw out this...
Fans across the ocean are getting to enjoy one of my favorite bands this month, as Starfield takes part in a bunch of festivals in Europe and the UK. In June, the band played in the Netherlands at the EO...
The Hillsong United Conference takes place August 22-23 at the Grace Community Church in Houston, Texas. The conference offers pastors, youth leaders, worship leaders, musicians and students the chance to learn at the feet of the enormously popular and spirit-filled...
One of my favorite rock worship bands, Starfield, just posted this fun video from their recent trip to Amsterdam, where they performed at the EO Youth Day. This clip is mostly of lead vocalist Tim trying to learn the Netherlands'...
Fee's "All Because of Jesus Complete EP" was released exclusively on iTunes yesterday. The song is from the band's September 07 release, We Shine. The EP contains an acoustic and radio mix of the band's hit radio single, "All Because...
Their latest album isn't scheduled to release until September, but Evensong Rising is already making news. The worship band at America's oldest church (the 275-year old Stanwich Congregational Church in Stanwich, CT) just became partners with Bread for the...
"So Deep In Love," the first single from Joel Augé's debut album, On The Blue, is the iTunes Single of the Week. The site is offering the song as a free download in the iTunes Store's Discovery Download promotion....
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