3C Live has released Communion With The King, the fifth album from the versatile, dynamic and multicultural group of 14, based out of 3C Church in Tshwane, South Africa. This 10-track studio album, produced by multi-award-winning singer songwriter and producer, Khaya Mthethwa, features collaborations with multi-award-winning Gospel singer-songwriter Ntokozo Mbambo […]
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‘God stayed close in those times’: TobyMac shares painful journey with grief after son’s death
Originally published in CBN News Christian recording artist TobyMac is sharing how his life has forever changed since the tragic death of his son Truett Foster McKeehan. Truett died at home in Nashville, TN on October 23, 2019, from an accidental drug overdose. During a six-minute video, TobyMac revealed that […]
100 000 tune in to Kaya 959 Soul Inspired Concert
More than 100 000 Kaya 959 listeners tuned in to watch the annual Soul Inspired Concert this month. Produced by Kaya 959 and supported by Spar, this popular concert staged in December showcased SA’s biggest Gospel and soul stars, cementing its status as an annual highlight for Gauteng music fans. […]
Record-breaking ‘Christmas with the Chosen’ movie streaming for free
The Chosen team have done it again, breaking new barriers with their movie, Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers which has broken box-office records in the US and made it possible to stream the film for free to a global audience. The Christmas special, a musical which tells the Nativity […]
Top award for Gospel queen Malope caps amazing life story of redemption
Africa’s most-celebrated Gospel star has been honoured with another prestigious award. But her early years were marked by suffering and rejection and her life is a testimony of how God turned her life around, writes Neziswa Kanju President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on Thursday, November […]
Hillsong releases first new album since 2018: ‘These Same Skies’
Originally published in Aleteia. Hillsong Worship is back with their first full-scale release since 2018. The new album, These Same Skies, features 11 original songs from some of the most talented minds of the group. The record is already available now across all digital platforms, but a CD release is coming on […]
The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (2)
In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services. For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being. We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]
In ‘The Jesus Music’ Erwin Brothers recount the glory and mess of Christian music
Originally published in The Roys Report The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along. Then last spring, Covid-19 brought it all to a halt. Artists who’d spent decades on the road […]
New single by Charl Folscher celebrates God’s love and grace
By Alani Coetsee Have you ever wondered whether we are deserving of the fullness of God’s love? Whether we have earned it? Or even whether we are good enough to receive such a gift? In his latest single, Crazy Love, singer-songwriter Charl Folscher addresses this question — and concludes that despite deserving the […]
The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (1)
During the Heritage Month of September we remembered our roots, as a nation. We traced our national evolution from what was to what now is, and we have been imagining our future. The one dominant word has been “change”. So it’s a good time to remind ourselves of our journey as […]