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Influenced by "I'll Be Brave This Christmas," the new radio single from Big Daddy Weave's recently released Christ Is Come (Fervent Records/Word Distribution), the campaign seeks to celebrate and thank American soldiers by helping their families in need.

Following Peace on Earth and Until the While World Hears were: 3. Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution); 4. Wow Hits 2010 by various artists (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 5. Beauty Will Rise by Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG); 6. Awake by Skillet (Atlantic/Ardent/INO Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. Timeless: The Selah Collection by Selah (Curb Records/Word); 8. Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot (Credential Recordings/EMI CMG); 9. Christmas With Bill and Gloria Gaither (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG); and 10. Church Music by David Crowder Band (Sparrow Records/EMI CMG).

By early November, more than 500,000 of the Crossway outreach materials--including a Christmas message from best-selling author Max Lucado, packaged in a white door-hanger bag with the New Testament--had been sold, according to organizers.

"For over 12 years, Rev! Magazine has provided thousands of pastors and other church leaders with practical and thoughtful articles and ideas for leadership, outreach, worship, preaching, administration, Christian education and discipleship," Group Publishing said. "However, economies and times change. For the magazine industry in general, this recession has been particularly lethal, aggravated in great part by the paradigm shift of the culture moving rapidly away from printed periodicals to digital delivery systems.

Leading the way was Destiny Image, which released Kurt Bruner's The Twilight Phenomenon: Forbidden Fruit or Thirst Quenching Fantasy? in September. The author's previous works include books offering a Christian perspective on "The Lord of the Rings" and the "His Dark Materials" series.

Kregel Parable Christian Stores in Grand Rapids, Mich., observed a full century of selling evangelical books this year, while Baker Book House (BBH)--also in the same city--marked 70 years.