South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A new monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] It’s easy to get confused once you get to meet the three members of Heandus for the first time after listening to their music. The hugely enjoyable music […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter THE DIGITAL AGE — EVENING MORNING This week I will start with a quote from my 16 year old hero, my son! “This doesn’t sound like ordinary Christian music mom, these guys are great!” This made me sit up straight and listen from a different […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter PLANETSHAKERS — LIMITLESS Have you loved a song SO MUCH that you would buy a whole CD just to get your hands on it? What if the rest of the CD is just as stunning and even has a bonus DVD included? Well, this is […]
Originally published in Christian Today Levi Mitchell is not your average teenager. At just 16-years-old, he has already released a solo album and was formerly a member of the ‘The Boy Band Project’, an LA-based five-piece group with a large US fan base. However, a career in the music industry […]
Story originally posted on godreports.com Garbage and filth surrounded their makeshift shanty in a small-scale dump in Kigali, Rwanda. Five years ago, three street boys, David, Pacifique, and D’Amour lived in this squalor, their minds obsessed with survival and numbing their pain. After they were taken in by a ministry […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter HEZEKIAH WALKER — AZUSA: THE NEXT GENERATION Listening to AZUSA: THE NEXT GENERATION, I took a long walk down memory lane, all the way back to the summer of 1994. There I was, a young white girl singing in front of a multi cultured audience […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter LOU FELLINGAM — BEST OF LOU FELLINGHAM LIVE New month, new music once again… Where has January gone?! We are off to Brighton in East Sussex, England, to introduce you to LOU FELLINGHAM LIVE. Kingsway Music refers to her as being ‘one of the most […]
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] A recent post from TGC Worship commented that ‘Worship Leader Burnout’ was even more common than ‘Pastoral Burnout’. It expressed this graphically: “If preaching/teaching pastors are […]
Originally published in Christian News Contemporary Christian music artist Natalie Grant has issued a response to critics who are blasting her for walking out of the Grammy Awards show last Sunday, or as she characterized it—she left early. “We left the Grammy’s early,” Grant, who was nominated for two awards, […]
By now you know the music “hits” me in traffic for the first time, so next time you see me ‘mouth wide open belting it out’, you’ll know… This week our attention is turned to ELEVATION WORSHIP: NOTHING IS WASTED. My first thoughts were that this album carries weight, like […]