"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." -- Micah 6:8
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PASSION 06 WELCOMES 18,000 TO NASHVILLE
Passion 06 opened Jan. 2 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center (GEC) in downtown Nashville at full conference capacity with 18,000 in attendance and students representing all 50 states, 20 countries. Passion 06 is a four-day indoor gathering for college students from around the nation and world and is the second such conference held in Nashville, following last year’s Passion 05.
"We told you at the end of Passion 05 to bring your friends and apparently you took us up on that challenge because we cannot fit one more person in this building," said Louie Giglio, Passion Conference founder/director, at the gathering's opening session. Registration closed last week when the conference reached its capacity. Registration numbers surpassed the 11,000 that attended last year's Passion 05.
"Passion is a tiny speck in what God is doing among college students in this nation and the world," Giglio said. "But we have been praying for months that God would change you and that generations from now, people would be talking about what God has done in this town, in these days, in your life."
Passion 06 is being held at the GEC and at numerous venues in downtown Nashville from January 2-5, and will be led by renowned speakers Giglio, John Piper and Beth Moore, among others, as well as worship artists Charlie Hall, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and more.
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SHOUT AT THE DEVIL
New on DVD is The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a horror thriller based on a true story about a single lawyer (Laura Linney), who takes on the church and the state, when she fights for the life of a priest (Tom Wilkinson), who has performed a deadly exorcism on a young woman. Linney must battle the cocky state lawyer (Campbell Scott) as well as her own demons, as she realizes that her career so far has not led her to fulfillment.
See clips from the film and find downloads at the official site.
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MERCYME WOWS TONIGHT SHOW
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, MercyMe appeared on The Tonight Show to perform "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." They band wowed the crowd --
But don't take our word for it: See the performance yourself online.
TO WATCH: The standard size video is at http://wmedia.buzzplant.com/content/ino/MercyMe-TonightShow_large.wmv.
The HD version is at http://wmedia.buzzplant.com/content/ino/MercyMe-TonightShow_hd.wmv.
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Chris Well is author of the suspense thriller Forgiving Solomon Long (Harvest House), picked by Booklist as one of the Top 10 Christian Novels of 2005. Read the first chapter online.
Chris is a member of International Thriller Writers, Inc. Find him online at StudioWell.com, or at his blog Chris Well: Learning Curve. (Subscribe to the RSS Feed).
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