Christian retail channel offers for the week of Feb. 21

Though it has yet to debut in theaters, with no DVD release date yet set, inspirational police drama The Grace Card gets strong promotion.

A link to a trailer for the movie, which features an appearance by Louis Gossett Jr. and opens Feb. 25, is featured in two LifeWay Christian Stores emailings, while the film is the lead item in Family Christian Stores' promotion.

Family offers three tie-in products: Faces of Grace, a 30-day devotional, for $9.99; The Grace Card: A DVD-Based Study Guide for $19.99; and The Grace Card Study Guide for $6.99. Family's promotion also include an offer for Secretariat for $24.99, $5 off the regular price.

The Grace Card is flagged in a LifeWay emailing offering DVDs for $5 and $10. The $5 titles include The Wager (regular price $14.95) and Clancy ($14.99). The $10 deals include The Book of Ruth and In the Blink of an Eye (each $14.99).

The movie emailing and LifeWay's other, promoting new books, each contains a Customer Appreciation Day coupon giving 33% off one regularly priced item, Feb. 26. Among the new titles LifeWay presents is Mike Huckabee's Simple Government (reduced from $26.95 to $19.99) and Terri Blackstock's Vicious Cycle (from $14.99 to $11.24).

Parable Christian Stores presents Attic Books, a series that reprints historic biographies with a classic look. Among the titles featured are The Life of Luther and The Life of John Knox, with online prices $14.97 and $12.97 respectively.

Mardel Christian & Education and Berean Christian Stores both promote the new Beautiful Everyday Bible, a partnership with Tyndale House Publishers that encourages shoppers to buy a copy for $5.99 and donate it to a local pregnancy resource center. As part of the promotion, Berean spotlights a maternity home it helps support.

Christian retail channel offers for the week of Feb. 14

Parable stores promote fiction, with a special offer on Randy Alcorn's new release, The Chasm. Regularly priced at $14.99, the allegorical adventure is available to online shoppers for $11.97. The same email indues a coupon for $5 off a $20 fiction purchase.

Parable stores also price family drama, Standing Firm, at $16.97 (usual price $19.95), and offer a range of DVDs for $3 each in a clearance sale. Among the titles on offer are The Last Sin Eater and Monkey Business, starring Marilyn Monroe.

Family Christian Stores majors on a half-off sale that includes God's Little Princess Devotional Bible for $8.49, Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids by Sarah Young for $7.49 and The Bible Experience Audio Bible on CD for $62.49. The promotion includes a “create your own sale” coupon for 25% off an entire purchase of regularly priced items.

Mardel Christian & Education prices Hillsong United's new release, Aftermath, at $9.99 and promotes the new Truth Soul Armor apparel line from Not of This World. A second Mardel emailing highlights Amazingly Graced by Wes Lane, which tells the story of the Oklahoma City district attorney's faith and career. The book is priced at $11.99 through Feb. 19, reduced from $14.

LifeWay Christian Stores spotlights its semi-annual sale, with $5 offers on Bibles, books and children's titles. The selection includes The One Year Bible for New Believers. NLT, Max Lucado's Cast of Characters, Ted Dekker's Boneman's Daughters and VeggieTales' God Made You Special.

Christian retail offers for the week of Feb. 7

Hearts abound in the lead-up to Valentine’s Day. There is the big red one one that features on the cover of Hawk Nelson’s new Crazy Love, featured on sale at Mardel Christian & Education for $9.99, while it is priced at $13.99 by LifeWay Christian Stores in its spotlight.

Then there are the heart-shaped price stickers on LifeWay's emailing promotion offering up to 65% off Bibles. Among the savings are The NASB/The Message Parallel Bible (reduced from $64.99 to $19.99), The Lucado Life Lessons Study Bible (from $49.99 to $24.99) and the NIV Adventure Bible (from $27.99 to $16.79).

In addition Hawk Nelson's new album, LifeWay has NeedToBreathe's The Outsiders and Michael W. Smith's A New Hallelujah each available for $5, while the deluxe edition of Francesca Battistelli's My Paper Heart is priced at $7.99.

At Mardel, Crazy Love is twinned with The Light Sides, acoustic versions of previous Hawk Nelson hits, for $13.99. Other music offers include Josh Wilson's See You, available for $7.99, while $5 deals include Arriving by Chris Tomlin, Speaking Louder Than Before by Jeremy Camp and We Need Each Other by Sanctus Real.

Berean Christian Stores focuses on gifts, reminding shoppers that “Berean has the WillowTree figurine your Valentine is asking for.” Also promoted are a range of DaySpring cards, including VeggieTales and Precious Moments valentines for $2.99 a pack.

Parable stores offer a free card with every nine bought through its DaySpring customer loyalty card. The main focus of the group's email promotion, however, is From Hopeless to Honored, by Michael Oher, the football star whose story was depicted in the hit movie, The Blind Side. Regular price $26, it is offered online for $16.97.

Christian retail offers for the week of Jan. 31

Red is the color this week, with romance and hard rock to the fore

As Valentine's Day nears, Parable stores ask "What's your love language?" to promote Gary Chapman's well-known works. The stores make his The 5 Love Languages, The Five Love Languages of Children and The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers available for $8.97 each online.

LifeWay Christian Stores' "wonderful ways to say, 'I love you'" promotion offers The 5 Love Languages for $9.99 (reduced from $14.99) and Emmerson Eggerichs' Love and Respect for a Lifetime for $5 (down from $12.99). Marriage drama Fireproof is reduced from $19.99 to $5.

Until We Have Faces from four-piece Red headlines the Mardel Christian & Education emailing, priced at $9.99. The band's previous Innocence & Instinct is offered for $5.99, with both releases available together, in-store only, for $19.99.

The new release also leads the list of new music from LifeWay, priced at $9.99. The chain's other featured music includes WOW Gospel 2011 (various artists) for $2 off the regular price, at $11.99. Brandon Heath's Leaving Eden is also priced at $9.99 (down from $13.99).

DVDs are also a focus, with Parable's online-only clearance offering a range of titles for $ each. Among them: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its sequel, The Two Towers, The Black Stallion and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. Mardel's $7.99 DVD sale includes In the Blink of An Eye, The Story of Ruth, Clancy and Home Beyond the Sun.

Family Christian Stores offers free shipping on any online order of $35 or more and 30% off an entire online purchase of regularly priced items.

Christian retail offers for the week of Jan. 24

DVDs at discounts prices are the main feature in email promotions from LifeWay Christian Stores and Family Christian Stores.

LifeWay offers pro-marriage bestseller Fireproof for $5, reduced from $19.99, with children's adventure Mandie and the Secret Tunnel available for the same price and music drama The Imposter priced at $7.99 (down from $14.99). New release Like Dandelion Dust is reduced from $22.98 to $17.99.

Family, meanwhile, presents a half-price selection, with The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, Standing Firm, and Hachi: A Dog's Tale each available for $9.99. The Book of Ruth: A Journey of Faith, starring Carman, is priced at $7.49.

Family also spotlights 20% savings on One Year devotionals and Bibles and $8 each for classics by Max Lucado, including Just Like Jesus, He Still Moves Stones and No Wonder They Call Him The Savior. Music releases offered at $7.97 each include Phil Wickham's Heaven & Earth and Third Day's Revelation.

The mailing also includes a coupon for 50% off a second purchase, while LifeWay's promotion has as coupon offering 33% off any one regularly priced item, Jan.31-Feb.2, in the chain's three-day Super Sale Event.

With Valentine's Day in mind, Parable discounts the “Love Dare” line. The original book is priced at $9.99, while the keepsake edition is priced at $17.99. The daily devotional is offered at $13.99 and its wedding edition for $22.99. Like Dandelion Dust is priced at $19.99, in-store only.

Mardel Christian & Education spotlights a sale of Thoughts to Share jewelry, with items reduced to $10 each. A separate emailing from the chain highlights outreach Bibles, with the full text NIV edition available for $1.90 each in packs of 20.

Christian retail offers for the week of Jan. 3

Shoppers with an eye for making personal changes are the focus of two offers.

Parable encourages people to “Shape Up Your Soul, Body & Finances,” offering The One Year Bible in NLT and NIV editions for $14.97 each (usual price $18.99). 31 Days to a Younger You by Arlene Pellicane is reduced from $11.99 to $9.97 while Fit For My King by Sheri Rose Shepherd, usually $12.99, is available for $10.97.

Parable's promotion also features Ellie Kay's The 60 Minute Money Workout, reduced from $14.99 to $12.97 and includes a coupon for free shipping on online orders of $40 or more.

Mardel Christian & Education leads its emailing with the One Year Bible God Sightings editions, available in NLT and NIV, for $9.99. The same price is given to The Daily Bible, NIV. Mardel also presents the deluxe, bonded leather edition of Jesus Calling by Sarah Young for $9.99, down from $19.99, and a selection of spiral journals for $5 each.

Family Christian Stores introduces its 2011 Book of the Year, Francis Chan's Crazy Love, at $11.24, reduced from $14.99. The 4-CD audio edition is reduced from $19.99 to $14.99. The chain also features Chan's The Forgotten God for $11.24. Jentezen Franklin's Fasting, with a bonus CD/DVD, is offered for $11.99, a saving of $8 on the regular price.

LifeWay Christian Stores' music emailing presents a selection of $5 CDs, among them BarlowGirl's Love & War, Point of Grace's How You Live, Deluxe Edition and Mandisa's True Beauty. Brandon Heath's forthcoming Leaving Eden is priced at $9.99 for pre-purchase, down from $13.99. The promotion also offers Priscilla Shirer's forthcoming book, Life Interrupted, for pre-buy at $9.99, with a free copy of her One In A Million, through Feb. 28.

Christianbook.com prices Kara Williamson's CD, Undisguised, at $1.99 (regular price $13.99). Book offers include Dr. Don Colbert's Eat This and Live! For Kids for $9.99, down from $17.99, and Bill Hybels' Too Busy Not To Pray hardcover club edition for $4.99 from $15.

Christian retail offers for the week of Dec. 20

Last-minute Christmas deals can be found aplenty, with Family Christian Stores leading the way with a bumper promotion offering savings of up to 50% on a wide range of products.

Among the half-off items are children's titles including Stephen Elkins' 100 Bible Stories, 100 Bible Songs (from $19.99 to $9.99) and top adult titles including Dave Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover: Revised Third Edition ($24.99 to $12.49) and Sarah Young's Jesus Calling devotional ($16.99 to $8.49).

The chain also has all sweatshirts and Christmas tees at half-price, while Bibles are reduced up to 40%, including the NIV Adventure Bible, available for $16.70 (regular price, $27.99). Boxed fiction is marked down 20%, pricing Karen Kingsbury's “Above the Line” set at $35.99 (regularly $44.99) and Janette Oke's “Love Comes Softly,”: books 5-8, for $41.59 ($51.99).

Parable leads its promotion with Jesus Calling specials, pricing the imitation leather edition at $14.97 for online shoppers, down from $18.99. The children's edition is available for $19.97 online, reduced from $14.99. Bodie & Brock Thoene's The Gathering Storm, the first in their new “Zion Dairies” series, is offered for $12.97 (usual price, $14.99).

Mardel Christian & Education is taking an additional 25% off all framed art and offering a 50% reduction on ESV Study Bibles. The chain also has graphic tees from Kerusso for $9.99 and select CDs available for $5 each. They include Toby Mac's Portable Sounds, Kutless' Strong Tower and Jeremy Camp's Speaking Louder Than Before.

Berean Christian Stores promotes the final days of its Christmas Bucks program which gives discounts on January shopping for December purchases. Included in the emailing is an additional coupon offering 15% off purchases between $35 and $75, 20% off $75-$125 and 25% off $125-plus.

Christian retail offers for the week of Dec. 13

Christmas savings are the big emphasis, as Berean Christian Stores promotes its Christmas Bucks program. The chain is offering $10 to spend in January for every $50 spent through Dec. 24. Its email promotion also includes a coupon for 50% off a second Bible with the purchase of one at regular price, through Dec. 20.

LifeWay Christian Stores offers a coupon for 33% off one regularly priced item in its Last Minute Sale, Dec. 17-18, while Family Christian Stores presents a coupon for 25% off a customer's entire purchase, valid through Jan. 2, 20011. Family also announces extended shopping hours, Dec. 19, noon-7 p.m.; Dec. 20-23, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Dec 24, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Berean's emailing highlights Bible savings, with 30% off select NIVs and 25% of NLT editions. LifeWay spotlights DVDs for Christmas gifts—The Blind Side reduced from $19.98 to $15.99 and Amish Grace down from $22.98 to $18.38.

Family focuses on children's products, with savings of up to 50%. The Voyage of the Dawntreader Movie Tie-In Edition Box Set of C.S. Lewis' seven “Narnia” books is priced at $45 and Fisher-Price's Little People Nativity set is available for $29.97 (regular price, $39.99).

Parable stores include a coupon for $5 off an online purchase of $20 or more through Dec. 18. The email highlights "Stories of Enduring Love< featuring the first two titles in Karen Kingsbury's "Timeless Love" series for $12.97 each. The same price is offered for the first release in Brock and Bodie Thoene's new ?Zion Diaries" series, The Gathering Storm.

Christian retail offers for the week of Dec. 6

Chris Tomlin's new And If Our God Is For Us... continues to be featured, leading Parable's weekly offers with a sale price of $11.97. The album's regular price of $13.99 is also reduced by $2 by LifeWay Christian Stores.

Music is a big emphasis all round, with LifeWay also presenting Amy Grant's Somewhere Down the Road ($10, down from $13.99), Third Day's Move (from $13.99 to $9.99) and Natalie Grant's Love Revolution (from $18.98 to $9.99).

Both Grants' releases are also spotlighted by Mardel Christian & Education, priced at $9.99 each along with Hillsong's A Beautiful Exchange and Skillet's Awake. Mardel also presents Chris August’s No Far Away for $5 with coupon and includes Eric Metaxas' biography Bonhoeffer among books 50% off, pricing it at $14.99.

Additionally, the chain's promotion includes an in-store-only coupon for $10 off hoodies, valid for one week.

LifeWay's two-week Bible sale sees the 79-CD set, The Word of Promise: Audio Bible, reduced from $149.99 to $74.99 and the personal size NLT Study Bible available for half price at $29.99.

The Lucado Life Lessons Study Bible and The HCSB Study Bible are each priced at $39.97 for online Parable purchases, with a 15%-off coupon for online purchase of $40 or more included in the emailing.

Berean Christian Stores offer 50% off a second Bible with the purchase of a first at regular price. The chain also promotes Brian Pina's worship CD, Kingdom Come, for $5 with a portion of proceeds going to stores' local Give Hope ministry.

Family Christian Stores sends out a coupon for 25% off an entire purchase—including sale items—valid through Dec. 24.

Christian retail offers for the week of Nov. 22

Shoppers get a preview of what will be on offer in post-Thanksgiving sales from Berean Christian Stores and CLC Christian Bookcenters.

At Berean locations, they will find $5 specials that include $5 CDs from artists including Casting Crowns, Matt Maher, Francesca Batistelli and Brandon Heath. DVDs available for the same price include holiday favorites The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing.

There are also savings on wall art during the Nov.26-28 event, with all items priced up to $99.99 available for 20% off, a 30% discount on products between $100-199.99 and 40% off items over $200. The emailing includes an in-store coupon for $5 off any purchase of $25-plus.

CLC Christian Bookcenters promises Early Bird savings for visitors beween 8 a.m. and noon on Nov. 26 and 27. Among promoted titles are Francis Chan’s Crazy Love and Don Piper's 90 Minutes in Heaven, for $7.50 each.

Mardel Christian & Education focuses on Sarah Palin's new book, offering America By Heart: Reflections ion Family, Faith and Flag, for $17.99, reduced from $25.99.

Parable customers are invited to “Answers Jesus' Call” with special pricing on Sarah Young's Jesus Calling devotional and the children's edition, each available online for $14.97. Other featured titles include holiday romance compendium A Prairie Christmas Collection for $12.97 online. The Parable promotion include a coupon for $10 off a $40-or-more online purchases through Nov. 27.

Parable's separate music promotion spotlights Christmas releases from Susan Boyle (The Gift) and Jackie Evancho (O Holy Night). They are available online for $12.97 and $9.98 respectively.

Christian retail offers for the week of Nov. 15

Worship favorite Chris Tomlin's new And If Our God is For Us... is the featured release for Mardel Christian & Education, LifeWay Christian Stores and Parable stores. Mardel offers the album for $9.99--regular price $13.99--through Nov. 22, while LifeWay has it available for $11.99. The release is priced at $11.97 online for Parable shoppers.

Mardel also promotes Tomlin's back catalog, pricing Arriving and See The Morning at $5 each, while Hello Love and Christmas recording, Glory in the Highest, are each $7.99.

LifeWay presents "Just in Time for Christmas" music, including Susan Boyle's The Gift, $2 off at $9.99, and WOW Hits 2011 (various artists), reduced from $14.99 to $10. Featured DVDs include A Christmas Snow, available for $15.99 (regular price $19.99). 

In Parable’s email promotion, the Tomlin offer is followed by a Christmas focus, with Christmas Stories for Bedtime on sale online for $5.99 and VeggieTales' new Christmas-themed It's a Meaningful Life available for $11.97.

CLC Bookcenters also concentrate on Christmas, with two Home for the Holidays collections—from Point of Grace's and Crystal Lewis—available for purchase at $11.99 each. The Essential Christmas Collection is priced at $10.99

Other featured holidays releases include David Phelps' Christmas (reduced from $13.99 to $11.49), A Brooklyn Tabernacle Christmas (from $14.98 to $12.99) and VeggieTales' 25 Favorite Christmas Songs (from $6.99 to $5.98). The CLC emailing also includes a coupon for 20% of any one regular priced item, in-store.

Christian retail offers for the week of Nov. 8

Riding a wave of media attention for the release of Decision Points, Mardel Christian & Education spotlights the new memoir by former President George W. Bush in its weekly emailing. The chain offers the Crown title for $24.99, down from the regular price of $35. 

LifeWay Christian Stores focuses on its two-day Open House Sale, Nov. 12-13, with savings of up to 66% on select Bibles, books, CDs, DVDs and children's products. The promotion offers a $10 savings card on in-store purchases of more than $40, while the first 50 customers at each outlet on Nov. 12 will be given a free paperback copy of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia". The following day, the first 100 shoppers will be given a free MercyMe water bottle.

In its separate music emailing, the chain promotes Susan Boyle's The Gift as the lead title in its Christmas CD focus. The album is priced at $9.99, $2 off the regular price. Among $5 titles available is Chris Tomlin's Glory in the Highest, while Point of Grace's Home for the Holidays is reduced from $13.99 to $11.99.

Family Christian Stores also focuses on the holiday season, with The Gift priced at $14.99. The chain spotlights advent decorations and ornaments: A six-piece nativity set from Willow Tree is priced at $67.99 while a creche costs $99.99. Tree ornaments including hand-painted releases are priced from $7.99 to $39.99.

Berean Christian Stores emphasizes its Bible Sale Event, offering 50% off select editions through Nov. 20. The chain's email promotion also includes a $10-off coupon for any in-store purchase of $50-plus on Nov. 10.

Parable stores lead their promotion with Karen Kingsbury's new Unlocked at an online price of $12.97, down from $14.99. Other featured items include The Poverty and Justice Bible, reduced from $19.99 to $16.97, and DVD, Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure, at $17.97 (regular price $22.95).

Christian retail offers for the week of Oct. 25

Savings of up to two-thirds on select children's products are offered as part of LifeWay Christian Strores' Harvest Party, to be held Oct. 30.

The two-hour event will feature savings like The Jesus Series Read and Share Bible: Life and Miracles DVD for $5 (usual price $14.99) and any four of the “I Can Read” series titles for $10. The Gigi Dress-up Kit is reduced from $19.99 to $11.99 while the Bibleman Cape & Mask set is reduced from $12.99 to $7.99.

The LifeWay emailing announcing the party—to include activities and snacks—also presents a pre-buy of $9.99 for Chris Tomlin's And If Our God Is For Us, regular price $13.99. Purchasers also get a free Sixsteps Records 2010 New Music Sampler CD.

Children's products are a focus for Parable stores, too, with Bible Stories for Curious Kids down from $14.99 to $13.19 in-store and $10.97 online, The Parable promotion centers on John Piper's Think, offered for $17.97 (regular price $19.99). Parable also prices the new Common English Bible New Testament in leather at $12.97, down from $15.

Mardel Christian & Education focuses on a Zondervan Bibles sale, with up to 50% off select editions including the NIV Thinline Bible in premium leather (down to $24.99) and the updated NIV Study Bible Bible reduced from $59.99 to $34.99.

The chain also prices half a dozen children's DVDs at $5.99 and less, including VeggieTales' Where's God When I'm Scared and the BBC production of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian/The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Family Christian Stores has $15 off The Lucado Life Lessons Study Bible in the New King James Version, priced at $55.99.

Christian retail channel offers for the week of Oct. 18

Christian Store Day gets a promotional nod from two chains.

Berean Christian Stores promises hourly giveaways at its locations during the Oct. 23 event, while LifeWay Christian Stores invites shoppers to its locations for the event.

Berean's big music offer is Third Day's new Move for $10.97 for the first week of release. Try Tribbett's Fresh is reduced from $15.99 to $10, while new books by Philip Yancey (What Good is God?) and Joel Rosenberg (The Twelfth Imam) are also discounted, from $23.99 to $19.19 and from $26.99 to $21.59 respectively.

LifeWay also promotes its October specials to mark Pastor Appreciation Month. Among them are the HCSB Study Bible (reduced from $49.99 to $39.99) pastors' mugs for $9.98. The chain's emailing also promotes Beth Moore's new Bible study, Paul: 90 Days In His Journey of Faith, for $19.85 (down from $24.99).

Third Day's new album is featured by Parable and Mardel & Christian Education, too. Parable makes it available for $11.97, also promoting Rosenberg's new title and John Sheasby's The Birthright (from $16.99 to $14.97).
Mardel's promotion also highlights 20% off select HCSN Study Bibles and Swanson's popular Faith Bands for $2.99 a pack.

Family Christian Stores has a youthful focus, leading with 70% off Guitar Praise—down to $22.97. Other featured items include VeggieTales' new DVD, It's a Meaningful Life (from $14.99 to $12.97) and the new Veggie Bands collection for $4.99 a pack.

Long-time music favorite Michael W. Smith's 22nd release, Wonder, grabs the spotlight for two chains and Parable group independents.

The new album is priced at $9.99 by LifeWay Christian Stores and Mardel Christian & Education, down from $13.99. Parable's online purchase price is $10.97 and the group's email promotion includes an online coupon for 15% off a music purchase through Saturday.

Both chains also feature Bebo Norman's new Ocean in their highlighted music, with Mardel offering it at the regular price of $13.99 and LifeWay discounting it by $2. LifeWay also prices Bill & Gloria Gaither's new Giving Thanks and Count Your Blessings at $11.99 each.

Mardel also offers Third Day's Oct. 19 release, Move, for a pre-buy price of $11.99, with a free t-shirt also included. LifeWay's Third Day advance purchase offers the new release for $9.99, bundling it with a free copy of the band's previous Chronology, Volume One.

LifeWay also promotes its in-store Kids Day, Oct. 2, to mark the release of VeggieTales' new It's a Meaningful Life. The two-hour event, from 11 a.m., will include crafts and snacks, with one-day specials offering several children's books for $5 each.