Once a washed up teen pop star and a drug-addled hippie, Keith Green found God who led him to record one of the most dynamic and enduring debut albums in…
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Iconic Contemporary Christian Albums: Larry Norman’s Only Visiting This Planet
Considered the father of Jesus Rock, the enigmatic, highly polarising and unusual genius of Larry Norman was fully realised on his ground-breaking 1972 album, Only Visiting This Planet. “It…
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How the highly acclaimed Christian recording artist, Michael W. Smith overcame the odds of alcohol and drug abuse and broke into the secular music market with his classic 1990 pop…
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Iconic Contemporary Christian Albums: Kirk Franklin’s The Nu Nation Project
Multiple Grammy Award-winning songwriter, recording artist, choirmaster and author Kirk Franklin has been dubbed the “reigning King of Urban Gospel” by Variety Magazine. We take a look at his 1998…
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Rejected by the church, nu metal band P.O.D. (Payable On Death) powerfully reached out to the young and the lost with their uncompromising message of Jesus Christ through the multi-platinum…
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Iconic Contemporary Christian Albums: Stryper’s To Hell With The Devil
How heavy metal missionaries Stryper and their double platinum album To Hell With The Devil brought a message of hope and salvation to the unchurched hard rock audience of the…
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Amy Grant holds the title of the first Christian artist to successfully cross over to mainstream music. She went from a teenaged gospel music darling to a Billboard Top 40…
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Last weekend (June 22 and 23) at City Harvest Church’s Jurong West campus Pastors Jeremy Choy and Bobby Chaw encouraged the church to draw near to God while at the Emerge…
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Executive pastor of CHC, Bobby Chaw taught the church out of Psalm 13 that they ought to give thanks to the Lord when they face overwhelming uncertainty in life. Opening his…
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Martin Smith’s first studio album in six years, Iron Lung, proves that rock still flows through his veins.
About Clinton Dixon
Clinton Dixon hails from the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand). Married to a local lady, he is writing his first novel while looking after his two kiwi born sons. In his downtime, he reads literary fiction and endures the vacillating fortunes of his beloved rugby league team: The New Zealand Warriors. Clinton's dream is to see more Christian writers take back the pillar of the arts and media.
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He was on the road to becoming a doctor, but Chris Tomlin obeyed God’s call to enter into full time worship-leading. The result is many of the world’s most widely-sung…
In this new series, City News brings you our pick of the most important and groundbreaking Christian contemporary music albums in the last half century. For starters, we take a…
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