If you have been stuck in the foggy world of getting the kids ready for back-to-school, probably the last thing on your mind are the latest releases by your favorite Christian music artists. Here are four new CD’s from top Christian recording artists, complete with links to enable to purchase the music from MyChristianOldies.com!

We Cry Out: The Worship Project by Jeremy Camp
Multi-Dove-award winning worship leader Jeremy Camp combined with producing legend Brown Bannister for this very live sounding studio worship project. The well received first single is “Jesus Saves.”
Buy it …

Typically on Mondays here on TheChristianBanner.com we will feature our own conversation with a church leader about what God is doing in their local church. But given the highly unusual and excellent feature this weekend on McLane Church’s Erie site, named “Church-in-a-Bar” by the Erie Times-News, we thought we’d just point you over toward that direction.
Reporter Valerie Myers and Photographer/Videographer Rob Engelhardt captured the vision and passion of this most unique church, which Site Pastor Andy Kerr leads, meeting at the Cell Block bar at 1213 State Street, Erie on …

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, in the heart of Erie’s old Little Italy neighborhood, is a true light to its community. On any given evening, volunteers and clergy will be serving meals, distributing clothing and food, helping children with their school work, or facilitating support groups for struggling adults.
The church takes seriously Christ’s command to “feed my sheep.” That’s why it is so disturbing to hear of the severe vandalism unleashed on the church by an individual. As reported in the Erie Times-News,

The damage was extensive: A U-shaped kneeling rail at …

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Today and for forty days leading to Easter (not including Sundays) many Christians enter into a season of contemplation and spiritual evaluation.
Here’s an explaination of Ash Wednesday from Catholic.org:
Following the example of the Nine vites, who did penance in sackcloth and ashes, our foreheads are marked with ashes to humble our hearts and reminds us that life passes away on Earth. We remember this when we are told”Remember, Man is dust, and unto dust you shall return.”
Ashes are a symbol of penance …