Raleigh, NC-based singer, songwriter, and worship leader Justin Warren releases his third Radiate Music single, “For The Glory Of God.”
Written with GRAMMY-nominated, two-time Dove Award-winning “Producer of the Year” Ian Eskelin (who also produced the track), the inspiration for the song came from an unfortunate situation in Warren’s formative years as a worship leader.
“In between my junior year and senior year of high school, I was asked to lead worship at my home church,” remembers Warren. “An older lady left the church and sent a letter to everyone letting them know that she was leaving because she didn’t think that I had the ability to lead people in worship. I wrote ‘For The Glory Of God’ because I am thankful that she wasn’t the one writing my story.
“God in His grace has given me a song to sing,” continues Warren. “He has allowed me to travel and to stand on numerous stages in front of countless people. I know that it’s not because of who I am or what I can do. It is because of Him and it is all for His glory!”
Justin Warren Releases “For The Glory Of God”
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Debuting “For The Glory Of God” live earlier this year on Moody Radio Network’s “Dawn and Steve in the Morning,” Warren’s new song follows the release of his “My Heart Dances” single, its companion CCM Magazine-premiered video and his acclaimed Radiate Music debut, “All Things Well.”
As one of Christian music’s most highly regarded worship leaders, Chris Tomlin has released a live performance version of his Grammy-nominated radio single “Holy Forever” featuring Jenn Johnson and Brian Johnson of Bethel Music.
The song has captivated worship leaders and church attendees across the globe since its release last fall and was recorded during Chris’ ‘Good Friday Nashville’ concert held at Bridgestone Arena where Jenn and Brian were guest performers.“
Holy Forever” was a collaborative written by some of the genre’s very best songwriters including Chris, Jenn, and Brian, as well as Phil Wickham and Jason Ingram; the song appears on Chris’ Grammy-nominated album Always. Watch the live performance video of “Holy Forever.
“Songs are like arrows out of the bow…reaching places far beyond what I would imagine,” said Chris. “I definitely feel that ‘Holy Forever’ is one of those arrows. It’s an honor to be a part of a song like this…that reminds us all of the greater story…the song of heaven! I love hearing how this song is finding its way among gatherings large and small around the world.”
The reverence of the song’s performance and message on Good Friday was even more powerful as the concert came just a week after the Covenant school shooting in Nashville.
Chris Tomlin Releases Live Version Of “Holy Forever” With Bethel Music’s Jenn & Brian Johnson
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“Leading ‘Holy Forever’ with Chris on Good Friday was such a beautiful moment for us,” shared Jenn. “This song has been so special, and leading it in the midst of a city in tragedy was deeply moving. There was a powerful hunger in the room that evening as we worshipped, united together.”
Tune in tonight as Chris appears on the 10th annual K-LOVE Fan Awards on TBN with an encore set to air on June 10.
Emmy Award-winning, Singer/Songwriter, Gospel hit-maker, and Amazon best-selling author Earnest Pugh releases the anticipated The Very Best of Earnest Pugh on Shanachie Entertainment today! Shanachie General Manager Randall Grass states, “We are thrilled to welcome Earnest Pugh to the Shanachie family. His extraordinary voice and consistently outstanding songs set a standard of quality that means a lot on the contemporary scene.”
The Very Best of Earnest Pugh is a collection that reminds us of Earnest Pugh’s stirring body of work, potent voice, and moving ministry. It showcases such signature hits as “Rain on Us” and “The Great I Am,” as well as two new tracks featuring Zacardi Cortez and Nakitta Foxx respectively.
It is a timely reminder of Earnest’s impact and contributions over the past fifteen years. He is currently on the radio with his second single from The Very Best of Earnest Pugh, “Keeper Of Our Souls,” which is steadily climbing the charts.
Earnest shares, “It’s one thing to know Jesus as Lord and Savior but in a climate with increased crimes, a failing economy, and uprise in gun violence, it’s imperative that we know Him as ‘Keeper Of Our Souls,’ because leaving home and coming back, is not a guarantee in these uncertain times.”
In February 2023 Earnest released the anthem “Keep Hope Alive,” featuring Dr. Jamal Bryant for Black History Month. Earnest Pugh is a 20-year military veteran and founder of his own Non-Profit Organization, Veterans Emergency Relief, which provides food, shelter, and clothing throughout the Houston region.
He also volunteers his services to veterans dealing with issues of depression and suicide. Pugh shares, “’ Keep Hope Alive’ resonated in my heart this year more than ever. I felt an urgency to insert this message into today’s climate of civil unrest, police brutality, and social in justice as a shot in the arm that will empower us with a greater determination to be hopeful that things will get better.
Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant, one of the most prolific orators of this time, weighs in with excerpts from his ‘The Audacity.’”
‘The Very Best Of Earnest Pugh’ Available Now
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Earnest Pugh launched his gospel recording career 15 years ago and scored a major breakthrough in 2009 with the Billboard #1 gospel hit “Rain On Us.” Pugh, who is a worship leader at The Church Without Walls in Houston, TX, also scored Billboard #1 hits for the songs “I Need Your Glory,” “God Wants To Heal You” and “Thank You So Much.”
Dubbed “Gospel’s Leading Man,” Earnest Pugh has garnered multiple Stellar Award nominations and he is a recipient of the prestigious BMI (Broadcast Music Industry) award for long-standing radio play with his rendition of “I Need Your Glory.” With a five-octave range, Earnest consistently sets the bar for quality gospel music as a singer, songwriter, producer, label executive, and mentor.
Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe nominee Dennis Quaid will deliver his debut Gospel album, Fallen: A Gospel Record for Sinners, on July 28 via Gaither Music Group.
Pre-order Fallen: A Gospel Record for Sinners and instantly receive Quaid’s cover of Kris Kristofferson’s 50-year-old hit, “Why Me Lord,”
Quaid will be appearing on TalkShopLive on June 14, pre-selling autographed copies of the new album. Enjoy a live discussion and real-time chat with him at 6 p.m. CT.
Combining soul-stirring renditions of seven hymns and classics with five original songs, Quaid delivers honest, inspiring lyrics sung with unmistakable tones that reflect heartfelt gratitude and eternal hope.
Fallen was executive produced by Quaid with producers David R. “Fergie” Ferguson, Ben Isaacs, and Chris Lindsey. The Isaacs and Jackson Brumley supply background vocals on “I’ll Fly Away,” while The Oak Ridge Boys join Quaid on “Life’s Railway to Heaven.”
Originally released on the soundtrack for Quaid’s faith-based film I CAN ONLY IMAGINE, “On My Way to Heaven” was inspired by the global superstar’s public grappling with addiction. Quaid also vulnerably acknowledges these personal struggles and his subsequent return to Christianity on songs like the title track.
Dennis Quaid To Deliver Debut Gospel Album July 28
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Fallen follows Quaid’s 2018 album, Out of the Box, described by Quaid as a junkyard of American music. Though he loves writing, recording, and making movies, music holds a special place in the Texas native’s heart, and for the last four decades, he has toured extensively, displaying equal ease on the piano and acoustic guitar.
Quaid enchants audiences with a set list that ranges from songs such as those included on Fallen to rock ‘n’ roll standards like “Great Balls of Fire!,” an homage to “The Killer,” who he portrayed in the 1989 box office smash.
Also known for his roles in THE ROOKIE, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, TRAFFIC, VANTAGE POINT, FREQUENCY, THE PARENT TRAP, SOUL SURFER, THE RIGHT STUFF, BREAKING AWAY, MIDWAY, Quaid’s recent big-screen credits include starring roles in Netflix he’s uplifting movie, BLUE MIRACLE, Sony’s thriller.
THE INTRUDER, Universal’s A DOG’S JOURNEY and A DOG’S PURPOSE, and Disney’s animated adventure film STRANGE WORLD. He also recently completed production portraying the 40th president of the United States in the biopic, REAGAN, slated for release in early 2024.
FALLEN: A GOSPEL RECORD FOR SINNERS TRACK LISTING 1. Fallen Dennis Quaid 2. Please Don’t Give Up On Me Dennis Quaid 3. Why Me Kris Kristofferson 4. God Gets Lonely Too Dennis Quaid 5. Just as I Am Charlotte Elliott and William B. Bradbury 6. Amazing Grace John Newton; American Melody 7. Life’s Railway to Heaven M.E. Abbey and Charles D. Tillman 8. On My Way to Heaven Dennis Quaid 9. What A Friend We Have in Jesus Charles C. Converse and Joseph M. Scriven 10. The Lord’s Prayer 11. Welcome Home Dennis Quaid 12. I’ll Fly Away Albert E. Brumley
Matthew Jones, the lead singer of Christian alt-rock band Right Hand Shade, is launching his solo career with the single “Where Would I Be Without Your Grace.” The song launched with an accompanying music video.
Jones’s solo career is launching in the wake of Right Hand Shade’s decision to close their chapter as a band. After significant success touring the east coast and opening for acts like Big Daddy Weave, JJ Weeks, Phil Joel, and Love & The Outcome, the band members’ calling to minister through music as Right Hand Shade came to a natural conclusion. From that ending, singer Matthew Jones found his own calling clarified and refreshed.
But that ownership of his calling didn’t come easily. As Right Hand Shade was rising and then coming to an end, as the world was in a global pandemic, Jones and his family were facing a crisis of their own.
Their daughter already had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In 2020, their son was as well.
“We truly felt like we had the wind knocked out of us like we had been brought to our knees,” Matthew Jones recalls. “We serve a God of hope. We serve a God who keeps His promises. He’s the same yesterday, today, and will be tomorrow.
No matter WHAT we’re facing, He does NOT make mistakes. Ever. And if He has the power to bring dead things back to life, then He’s got my children right in the palm of His hand. He loves them even more than I could.”
That’s the kind of perspective that carried Jones into a new chapter and new songs — including “Where Would I Be Without Your Grace.” The authenticity these lyrics access is also born from the songwriter’s experience on the mission field in Latin America, where he also saw God’s grace manifest.
“Where would I be without your grace?
There’s nothing I could do, to earn or lose your love
Where would I be without your grace?
What you’ve already done, will always be enough.”
Listeners will hear a sonic shift from the surf rock tones of Right Hand Shade. Matthew Jones offers complex groove-driven rhythmic patterns, intricate vocal harmony layers, and his signature soulful and powerhouse vocals. “Where Would I Be Without Your Grace” is the first of things to come.
Jones self-produced the song with co-production support from Chris Hoisington and Eric Andersen (Old Bear Records). He’ll be recording more songs throughout 2023, tracks that resonate with freedom, authenticity, and the beauty of giving our whole hearts away.
Matthew Jones Of Right Hand Shade Launches Solo Career With New Single
Today, two-time GRAMMY-nominated, Billboard Music and NAACP Image Award-winning, inspirational artist, Koryn Hawthorne, releases her brand new single, “Cry,” lifted from her forthcoming third album. The triple-threat entertainer’s new single, “Cry”
Produced by, J White Did It, “Cry” demonstrates Hawthorne’s ability to transcend across all genres, showcasing her signature vocals and encouraging lyrics over the popular music sample, “In All My Wildest Dreams” by the late jazz legend, Joe Sample. Hawthorne gracefully reminds all, that it’s okay to show emotions and be vulnerable amid any life storm.
Jason Gray releases 2 new songs titled “Good Man” and “When I Grow Up.” You can hear the heart behind the new music below. The audio for “Good Man” can also be heard below.
“It’s better to be a woman than to be a man,” I heard my son say. It broke my heart to hear him feel any sense of shame or embarrassment over such a fundamental part of who he is, but I understood why he might have felt that way.
Whether you’re a man or a woman, each comes with its own set of challenges–life is difficult no matter who you are. But the particular crisis men face in our culture is being caught in the crossfire of being judged as “weak/passive” on one end of the spectrum or “toxic/patriarchal” on the other. It can be hard to know what to be and how to move in the world when there are landmines in every direction.
While some criticisms may be warranted, and while sometimes we as men certainly fail to be all we can be, the one thing almost every man I know has in common is a deep desire to be good. It’s buried in a man’s chest like an ember waiting to be kindled. (Check out my friend Brant Hansen’s new book, The Men We Need for his take on a Christian vision of masculinity).
If there was ever a time when our culture needed good, strong, tender, humble, and brave husbands, fathers, and men, I believe it’s now. My song “Good Man” is me throwing my hat in the ring to join the conversation. It’s also my genuine prayer for myself I know being a woman isn’t easy, either, but I’ll leave that song to someone more qualified than me to write and sing 🙂
If “Good Man” is about growing up into maturity and responsibility, then “When I Grow Up” is a reminder that, according to Matthew 18:2-4, we can aim no higher than to mature into childlikeness (not to be confused with childishness!). Cultivating a sense of childlike wonder keeps us curious, humble, open, and free from bitterness and the dark side of ambition. G.K. Chesterton said it best when he wrote in his book Orthodoxy:
“Because children have abounding vitality because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be an automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” -Gray
Derek Minor releases new music with “More On The Way.” The track is a collab with Jon Keith, 1K Phew, and features nobidgyl. The official video can be found below
