(Nashville, Tenn.) Thomas Nelson, Inc. announced today that thirteen of its products or campaigns have been chosen to be finalists for Christian Retailing’s 2009 Retailer’s Choice Awards. Products or campaigns nominated for the 2009 Retailer’s Choice Awards must include clear Christian content, message, or worldview. Retailers judge nominations on the impact they have had on staff and customers, including their ability to speak to people’s hearts and evoke emotion, open people’s minds to new ways of thinking, and encourage and affirm Christlike living.

The winner in each category will be announced on Monday, July 13, during the International Christian Retail Show in Denver, Colorado. Winners will appear in the August 10 issue of Christian Retailing. The Thomas Nelson finalists are: READ MORE »

Best-selling author and Texas pastor Max Lucado visited Ethiopia May 5-11, 2009 with international humanitarian agency World Vision. Joined by his wife Denalyn, his daughter Jenna and her husband Brett Bishop, World Vision President Richard Stearns, Thomas Nelson CEO Michael Hyatt and Women of Faith president, Mary Graham, Lucado experienced first-hand the immense need for aid in this remote area of Africa. As a long time sponsor of World Vision children, Lucado was deeply moved by the joy of the Ethiopian people in the face of such hardship and by the difference World Vision is making in that country.

Before he even left the United States, Lucado made it his goal to help World Vision sponsor 25,000 more children. Interested sponsors can go to the website link: http://maxlucado.com/ethiopia/. READ MORE »

“After I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn’t ever gon’ have no kind a’ future.  But I found out everybody’s different – the same kind of different as me: we’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.” — Denver Moore

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.
A true story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

For the week of March 22,2009, Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent will be listed as the #12 nonfiction paperback on the New York Times Best Seller List – its 52nd consecutive week on the list. The highest point reached over the past year has been #11, which was reached on two separate occasions.

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AUTHOR AND “WOMAN OF FAITH” SPEAKER SHEILA WALSH ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO TRUST GOD IN TOUGH TIMES

(Nashville, Tenn.) She is a powerful speaker, touring to more than 25 cities each year with the Women of Faith Conference. She is an award-winning author, a successful music artist, and a devoted mother and wife. Yet, even Sheila Walsh—a successful woman by anyone’s standards—suffers the same burdens that so many women share. Through her own trials, she has discovered new depths of God’s goodness for a woman’s most common problems, and she now shares them with the world.

In her new book, Let Go: Live Free of the Burdens All Women Know, (Thomas Nelson, February 2009, ISBN: 978-0-8499-0135-5, $19.99) Walsh utilizes carefully selected biblical insights and poignant personal stories to join her readers on a journey of discovery—learning together how to release themselves from the heavy yoke of life, to see God in every moment, and to fully allow Him to be in control. READ MORE »

(Nashville, Tenn.) Thomas Nelson, Inc. announced today that If My People is #1 on the October ECPA Besteller List (Under $5) and #2 on the October Top 50 CBA Bestsellers’ list. If My People, A 40-Day Prayer Guide for the Nation is a prayer booklet to help lead believers in prayer for our country as we approach the November elections.

In addition to 40 prayers, one for each day leading up to the election, If My People includes prayers from past presidents that guided America through some of its most challenging days.  Regardless of political leaning, believers will find If My People inspiring and effective as they pray for America.   The If My People Campaign was the first campaign where Thomas Nelson Church Development opened up to Christian Retail what had traditionally been an exclusive direct-to-church campaign. READ MORE »