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Elev8 posted video of an exclusive listening session & performance from the 3x Grammy Award Winning Duo Mary Mary. They performed songs from the upcoming release of “Something Big”! Get a glimpse of what to expect when the album hits stores March 29th.
This is going to create quite a sales dilemma.. Kirk Franklin’s album drops one week before. I’m just going to have to get both of these albums.
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Problably the most anticipated CD all year will hit the shelves on March 22, 2011. The project “Hello Fear” by Kirk Franklin is one that many are marking their calendars for. You can now pre-order the CD by clicking here. Check out the artwork for the album. I think it gives us a clue for what the album is going to help us get through.
Track Listing for Hello Fear:
1. Hello Fear
2. Interlude
3. Before I Die
4. I Am
5. But The Blood
6. Everyone Hurts
7. I Smile
8. Give Me featuring Mali Music
9. Never Alone Interlude
10. The Altar featuring Marvin Sapp & Beverly Crawford
11. Something About The Name Jesus Pt. 2 featuring Rance Allen, Marvin Sapp, John P. Kee & Isaac Carree
12. Today
13. The Moment #1
14. The Moment #2
15. A God Like You
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The U.S. Central Command said negotiations for the release of the hostages were ongoing when there was gunfire at approximately 1 a.m. ET Tuesday.
U.S. Forces responded to the gunfire aboard the pirated vessel, named the Quest, by boarding the yacht but discovered that all the hostages had been shot.
“Despite immediate steps to provide life-saving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds,” the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
The Quest was owned by Scott Adams, who obtained a master of theology degree from Fuller in 2010, and his wife, Jean. Two other Americans – Phyllis Mackay and Robert A. Riggle – were on board when the vessel was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Oman on Friday.
U.S. Forces responded with four U.S. Navy warships as they sought to recover the Quest. They were closely monitoring the Quest for three days before the hostages were shot.
Gen James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander, stated, “We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost aboard the Quest.”
Fuller Seminary had requested urgent prayers for the four hostages on Monday.
“Adam … is a beloved friend of the seminary. We ask that all members and friends of the Fuller community keep Scott, his wife, and their two accompanying friends in their thoughts and prayers,” the Southern California-based seminary stated on its website.
Scott and Jean Adams were retired and had been sailing around the world for the past six years on their yacht. The couple was on a worldwide trip to distribute Bibles.
On the couple’s website, Jean Adams wrote, “Another aspect of our travels is friendship evangelism – that is, finding homes for thousands of Bibles, which have been donated through grants and gifts, as we travel from place to place.”
The couple wrote on their website their 2011 trip plans, which began in Phuket, an island off of Thailand, and would end in Crete in April. In between, the couple would stop in Sri Lanka, India, Oman, and Djibouti, among other places.
After Crete, the couple had planned to also travel to Turkey and London.
According to the U.S. Central Command, it is believed that 19 pirates were involved in the hijacking of the Quest. Two pirates were killed during confrontation on the vessel and 13 were captured and detained. Two were already in U.S. Forces custody and another two were found dead aboard the yacht.
Christian Post reporter Michelle A. Vu contributed to this story.
BET Sunday Best Returns — BET’s hit singing competition Sunday Best is preparing to return for its fourth season. Auditions for this year’s show kick off on Feb. 19 in Dallas, TX at The Potter’s House (Main Campus). Auditions will continue in Los Angeles (March 5) and Atlanta, GA (March 12). Celebrity judges Donnie McClurkin and Mary Mary will return and Kirk Franklin will again serve as the show’s guest host. The show will air in April on BET.
Sunday Best 4 Auditions:
Dallas, TX (COMPLETED)
Saturday February, 19 (7am-1pm)
The Potter’s House (Main – Dallas Campus)
6777 W Kiest Blvd
Dallas, Texas 75236
Los Angeles, CA (COMPLETED)
Saturday, March 5 (7am-1pm)
West Angeles Cathedral
3600 Crenshaw Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90016
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Atlanta, GA
Saturday, March 12 (7am-1pm)
Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church
4650 Flat Shoals Parkway
Decatur, GA 30034
APPROVED SONG LIST:
1. Amazing Grace
2. He Touched Me
3. It Is Well With My Soul
4. I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
5. Old Time Religion
6. Every Time I Feel The Spirit
7. When We All Get To Heaven
8. Love Lifted Me
9. Jesus Is On The Mainline
10. Go Tell It On The Mountain
11. Silver & Gold (Kirk Franklin)
12. Stand (Donnie McClurkin)
13. The Best In Me (Marvin Sapp)
14. You Are God Alone (Marvin Sapp)
15. I Need You Now (Smokie Norful)
16. Encourage Yourself (Donald Lawrence)
Want to lose weight and keep it off? Try being integral with yourself. Yep, good ol’-fashioned self-honesty can really do what millions of fad diets won’t.
But be warned – “That’ll get the first 10 pounds off,” yet it’s not the end of the road, explains evangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum. She says that most dieters fail because they don’t keep their word to themselves.
“You can’t sit back and say ‘I’m going to be a great dancer’ and you’re on the couch eating doughnuts every day, because you’re lying to yourself,” says Bynum, 52, adding that you have to press on and meet the goal. And she ought to know.
Over the past eight months, Bynum’s quietly shed 30 pounds, dropping from a size 16 to her current size 8. And she isn’t done.
The prophetess, who now weighs 150 pounds now, is 15 pounds away from her goal weight of 135, which would fit her 5-foot-4-inch frame into a size 6. Just after starting her new plan, Bynum was diagnosed with diabetes, which prompted her to want to lose that last 15 pounds.
Bynum’s desire to return to her “original health status” fueled her initial decision to lose weight. When she was in her 20s, Bynum spent a decade as a strict vegetarian, abstaining from eating meat and dairy-products, and felt her healthiest.
“I felt more alert and more in tune with my body and what I was putting into my body,” shares Bynum, who’s led a fairly active life and never struggled with weight before.
She’s currently not a vegan, and because of a contractual agreement with the publisher of her health and wellness book due out later this year, she would only say, “I’m just very, very conscious of what I put in my body and how much of it I put in my body.”
Bynum’s new regimen also allowed her to recover from the 2007 headline-making parking lot brawl between her and then-husband Bishop Thomas Weeks III that led to their divorce.
“All that I had gone through, I felt like it was an opportunity to recreate myself. Not a lot of people get an opportunity to walk in the place where they experience trouble and then have emotional strength and the spiritual support through their relationship with God or even a friendship that pulls them to a place of making a correction,” she says.
To help make her transformation successful, Bynum works out three to four times a week, engaging in various activities like Bikram yoga, weight training, spin class and treadmill walking. She also relies on her self-discipline at the dinner table where she monitors her intake, knowing her limit and sticking to it. With a tour in the works, the Chicago native says there’s no way she could accomplish her goals if she’s not mentally and physically healthy.
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WOW Gospel 2011, the latest installment of the popular WOW Gospel series, celebrates its second week atop the Billboard Top Gospel Charts. The album also sits at #33 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts. Church on the Moon from Deitrick Haddon moves to the #2 position. Canton Jones‘ latest Dominionaire takes the #3 position while Triumphant from VaShawn Mitchell jumps to #4. I Believe: Live from James Fortune & FIYA rounds out the week’s top five albums. In other chart news, the compilation WOW Gospel 2010, jumps five places to #11 while another compilation titled Gospel’s Best Worship leaps thirty places to #15.
In the world of radio, “Nobody Greater” from VaShawn Mitchell celebrates its second consective week atop the radio charts. “I Believe” from James Fortune & FIYA featuring Shawn McLemore and Zacardi Cortez enters at the #2 spot while William McDowell‘s “I Give Myself Away” moves to the #3 position. “Walking” from Mary Mary takes the #4 spot while “He Wants It All” from Forever Jones rounds out the week’s top five songs. Most increased radio plays and most added goes to Trin-i-tee 5:7 for the song “Over & Over.” The duo enters the charts at #24.
Fantasia Barrino has been turning heads lately because she’s picked up a little weight, leading many to believe that she’s pregnant. The truth is that Barrino was recently cast in the lead role for an upcoming biopic based on the life of legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. Barrino is said to be in the process of gaining 45 pounds for the role. Barrino will star in the big screen adaptation of the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.
The movie begins filming in April in Pittsburgh and Chicago and should hit theaters by December 2011. The New Orleans born Jackson died in 1972 at the age of 60. Here is Fantasia singing Total Praise below.
Listen to John P. Kee talk with CoCo Brother about The Legacy Project CD.
MUSIC VIDEO: “The Promise” by Andraé Crouch
