A variety of savings compete for the attention of Labor Day weekend shoppers.

There is a strong focus on pre-buys, with LifeWay Christian Stores and Berean Christian Stores seeking advance purchases of Third Day's Move, due out next month.

LifeWay has the CD available for $9.99 (regular price $13.99), with a free copy of the band's Chronology, Volume One. Berean lists the forthcoming release at $10.97 and offers a free copy of the group's latest recording, Revelation, citing the pair as a $29.98 value.

Looking further ahead, LifeWay also offers a pre-release deal for Chris Tomlin's And If Our God Is For Us, not due out until mid-November. Advance purchases at $9.99—$4 off the usual price—qualify the buyer for a free copy of the Sixsteps Records 2010 New Music Sampler.

Other LifeWay offers see Israel Houghton's Love God, Love People and Jeremy Camp's We Cry Out: The Worship Project reduced from $13.99 to $12.99 and $10 respectively.

The LifeWay emailing includes a Labor Day Weekend Sale coupon for 33% off any one full-priced item, while Berean's promotion offers $10 off any in-store purchase of $30 or more through Sept. 1. The Berean emailing also reduces Casting Crowns' Until The Whole World Hears from $13.99 to $10 and The Afters' Light Up The Sky from $15.99 to $10.

Family Christian Stores, meanwhile, goes to the movies. The chain promotes the Sept. 24 theatrical release of Like Dandelion Dust, the movie based on Karen Kingsbury's book of the same name, with an exclusive $5 behind-the-scenes documentary. It also prices the new movie edition of the book at $11.99, down from $14.99.

A separate Family emailing highlights VeggieTales' new It's a Meaningful Life, with a pre-buy price of $12.97 on the October release, twinned with a free VeggieTales Lessons for a Lifetime triple feature. The chain also promotes its Oct. 2 premiere event, when the new film will be screened in stores.

Parable Christian Stores feature Emily Colson's Dancing with Max, pricing the memoir at $14.97, down from $16.99. Mardel Christian & Education offers Max Lucado's Out Live Your Life for $17.99, $7 off the regular price, and David Platt's Radical for $10.99 instead of $14.99. Mardel also takes $10 off the new Family Reading Bible, pricing it at $29.99.

Christian retail offers for the week of Aug. 23

Award-winning Jeremy Camp's We Cry Out: The Worship Project leads the music-centered offers from three chains.

LifeWay Christian Stores and Mardel Christian & Education each price the new release at $9.99, while the CD (regular price $13.99) is available for $10.97 at Berean Christian Stores.

Berean twins its offer, however, with a pre-buy for Third Day's Move, coming Oct. 19, that prices that release at $10.97-and includes a free copy of the band's previous release, Revelation, a $29.98 value. The Berean emailing also includes a coupon for $10 off any in-store purchase of $40 or more, through Aug. 26.

LifeWay's new music promotion includes Natalie Grant's Love Revolution, down from $18.98 to $11.99 and Britt Nicole's five-track Acoustic for $5. The emailing also features a $7.99 DVD sale, with titles including Bella, Christy: A New Beginning, Where the Red Fern Grows and Mandie and the Secret Tunnel.

Other music offers from Mardel include Randy Travis' I'll Fly Away for $11.99, The Hoppers' Something's Happening for $13.99 and Love Revolution for $9.99. The chain offers Max Lucado's latest book for $17.99, reducing Outlive Your Life from $24.99.

The book is also marked down to lead LifeWay's reading offers, priced at $17.49. Similarly discounted is The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy, while The Power of a Whisper by Bill Hybels is reduced from $22.99 to $17.24 and Stormie Omartian's The Power of a Praying Life goes down from $13.99 to $10.49.

Family Christian Stores offers 50% off select videos. Titles available include Facing the Giants, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story and The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry. Bargain DVDs offered for $6.97 each include The Genius Club, Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and God's Outlaw.

Christian retail offers for the week of Aug. 16

Back-to-school shoppers are a focal point again, with Mardel Christian & Education and CLC Bookcenters offering specials for students' equipment and resources.

Mardel promises "limitless style" in its e-mail promotion that includes rhinestone tees for $19.99 each, two regular "guys and girls" tees--usually priced at $21.99 each--for $30 and two pairs of jeans fro $60.

The promotion also highlights "school of rock" music titles including Hawk Nelson's Live Life Loud and Skillet's Awake for $9.99 each. "Class clown" comedy DVDs by Anita Renfroe (Big Ol' Sweet Iced Tea) and Chonda Pierce (Did I Say That Out Loud?) are $14.99 each.

CLC's back to school resource specials include Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Student Edition Bible study by Max Lucado, reduced from $17.99 to $14.99, and the Teen Devotional Bible, NIV, priced $4 off at $23.99. Deal of the Week is VeggieTales' Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart, cut from $14.99 to $12.49.

The mailing also includes a coupon for 20% off any in-store purchase of a regularly priced item, through Sept. 6.

Love comes cheaply at Family Christian Stores, where the movies based on the popular Janette Oke books are among titles offered for $10 each. They include Love Comes Softly, Love's Abiding Joy and Love Takes Wing.

The chain also has a pre-buy offer on Amish Grace, the forthcoming movie based on the book of the same name that tells the true story of how an Amish community responded with faith and forgiveness aftyer five of their children were murdered. Those purchasing the title in advance for $19.97--down from the regular price of $22.98--also get two family Rewards cards worth a total of $10.

Mary Beth Chapman's Choosing to See leads a selection of "new books that inspire." It is priced at $17.59, down from the regular price of $21.99.

LifeWay Christian Stores' music newsletter presents the Gaither Vocal Band's Greatly Blessed and The Hoppers' Best Of collection for $11.99 each, down $2. Newsboys' Born Again is offered for $7.99, down from $13.99. Audrey Assad's The House You're Building is the same reduced price.

Another LifeWay e-mailing promotes its Bibles sale, ending Saturday. Among the specials are the NIV Adventure Bible, down from $27.99 to $13.99, and the digital Bible, Glo, available for $44.89 instead of $89.99.

Christian retail offers for the week of Aug. 9

An emphasis on Bibles sees two half-off promotions and an exclusive offer.

Family Christian Stores' 50% reduction on Bibles running through Aug. 21 includes the NIV/The Message Parallel Study Bible for $22.50, the NIV/KJV/NASB/AMP Comparative Study Bible for $25 and Revolve, the "Biblezine" for teen girls, for $8.50.

Also featured in the promotion are audio editions Inspired By...The Bible Experience: The Complete Bible for $62.50 and The Word of Promise: NKJV New Testament Audio Bible for $24.99.

At Mardel Christian & Education, the focus is on children's and student Bibles. The NIV Adventure Bible is priced at $13.99 (down from $27.99)), the compact NIV Student Bible is reduced from $39.99 to $29.99 and True Images: The Bible for Teen Girls, NIV is $10 off the regular price, at $29.99.

Berean Christian Stores introduces an exclusive offer for God's Covenant Bible Study. The standard set--including a teacher's manual and self-standing chart--is $58, while a Power Point package is available for $48 and a Value Pack costs $89.

The products are also available in Spanish, with student workbooks in English and Spanish $15.95 each.

Mardel's emailing also highlights a "Back2School" offer of rhinestone t-shirts for $19.99 ($5 off), regular tees at two for $30 and two pairs of jeans for $60.

With the new school year starting soon, teens and education supplies are a common focus, from special prices to free backpacks.

LifeWay Christian Stores' "Back to Bargains" mailing has Bible verse water bottles reduced from $9.99 to $5, while Newsboys' Born Again is priced at $7.99 instead of $13.99. In-store shoppers are also invited to buy one t-shirt and get a second for 50% off.

The chain's music newsletter majors on teen drama DVD, To Save a Life. The PG13-rated film is reduced from $24.99 to $19.99, with a free backpack offered with the purchase of a CD from a list that includes MercyMe's Mr. Lovewell and Vicky Beeching's Eternity Invades, both down to $11.99 from $15.98.

Berean Christian Stores also spotlights To Save a Life, making the movie available for $21.59. The chain's email also promotes patriotic tees, two for $10 and includes an inm0-store only coupon for 40% of any one regularly priced item.

To Save a Life appears, too, in Mardel Christian & Education's "Education Sale" offer that presents a range of $5 products including calendars, tote bag, puzzles and t-shirts.

Parable stores highlight the new VeggieTales release, Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart, reduced from $14.99 to $9.97. Tony Dungy's new The Mentor Leader is priced at $19.97 (regular price $24.99).

Family viewing is the focus of several offers, with pre-buy specials and bargain bin deals.

The latest VeggieTales offering, Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God's Own Heart features prominently. The July 31 release is offered for $12.97, down from $14.99, at Family Christian Stores, which will also give away a VeggieTales Girl Power! Triple Feature, worth $24.99, free while supplies last. The chain is to host a Sweetpea premiere in stores on release day.

At LifeWay Christian Stores, the Sweetpea episode is priced at $9.99 and paired with a free copy of VeggieTales' Silly Little Thing Called Love, through July 30. Parable's email promotion prices the Sweetpea release at $9.97 and includes an opportunity to download free coloring pages.

Also highlighted across different outlets is the family drama, Letters to God. At Family Christian, the film that comes out Aug. 10 is twinned with a free chain exclusive soundtrack EP. The $30.98 combined value pack is priced at $17.99. LifeWay prices the film at $14.99 (regular price, $24.99) for pre-purchase and includes a free exclusive LifeWay wrist band, value $5.

Family combines the teen drama, To Save a Life, out Aug. 10, with the movie soundtrack for $17.99. Other new releases promoted by LifeWay include the Billy Graham biopic, Billy: The Movie (reduced from $19.95 to $14.96), The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (from $24.95 to $18.71) and comedy Angels Love Donuts (from $19.95 to $14.96).

Parable's email spotlights the new release from "Left Behind" co-author Jerry Jenkins. His The Last Operative is priced online at $11.97 (regular price $14.99) and shoppers are given the chance to read an extract. Kutless' The Beginnings, the band's first three releases bundled into one collection, is offered for $13.97, down from $18.99. There is also an online-only coupon for 15% off a purchase of $50-plus, through Saturday.

Mardel Christian & Education highlights the availability of the popular Sillybandz in its email, which also presents Kerusso's Pick Jesus bracelets and earrings for $5. Comedian Anita Renfroe's new DVD, Big Ol' Sweet Iced Tea, is priced at $14.99.

Long-time Christian pop rock favorites Newsboys get star billing as the band releases Born Again, the first recording to feature former DC Talk member Michael Tait as lead singer.

Berean Christian Stores offers an autographed copy of the quartet's album for $10 through July 20, with limited supplies at each chain location. The email special also includes a coupon for 25% off any one, in-store purchase through Saturday.

At LifeWay Christian Stores, Newsboys' 10-track release, usual price $13.99, includes two more tracks and is reduced to $6.99, while Mardel Christian & Education presents the regular edition for $9.99.

LifeWay packages its Newsboys offer with reduced prices on other new music releases. Among them: Hillsong's A Beautiful Exchange, Live down from $13.99 to $11.99 and Addison Road's Stories reduced from $13.99 TO $9.99.

The LifeWay email promotion also includes a Summer Shop-n-Save Coupon valid only Saturday. It takes 25% of purchases totaling $50-plus, 20% off spending over $35 and 15% off entire purchases of more than $25.

In a separate promotion, Mardel's Feature of the Week offer is on Kerusso's two-tone stainless steel spinner rings, priced at $12.99. Among select books on sale for $10.99 each are Terri Blackstock's Predator and Karen Kingsbury's Take Four, each reduced from $14.99.

Family Christian Stores unveils its summer Bible sale, with up to 40% of select editions. The NIV Study Bible in hardcover is reduced by $16 to $23.99, while The Word of Promise Audio Bible on CD is reduced from $124.99 to $99.99. The promotion also includes 20% off select DVD studies and Bible studies.

Pre-buy specials lead the way, with inspirational drama Letters to God featured by LifeWay Christian Stores and Parable member-stores.

Parable shoppers are offered the Aug. 10 release DVD, based on a true-life story and the subject of several ancillary titles, for $19.97 in advance, down from $24.95. LifeWay prices the movie at $14.99 and includes a free LifeWay arm band, bearing John 3:16, in the pre-purchase.

Family Christian Stores switches the buy-before focus to books, offering Drew Brees' Coming Back Stronger (available July 16) for $21.59 instead of $26.99. Tony Dungy's The Mentor Leader, due out Aug. 3, is marked down from $24.99 to $18.74.

Parable presents its Letters special along with a saving of $2 on Newsboys' July 13 release, Born Again. The pre-buy price is $7.99, with a free, five-song digital sampler thrown in. The stores also offer a download of a chapter from Josh McDowell's new novel, The Witness, which is priced at $11.97, down from $14.99.

The Parable email also includes an online-only coupon for $10 off a $40-plus purchase, through Saturday.

LifeWay's One Big Summer sale promotion spotlights the chain's Summer Reading Race for children. Participants get a punch card which offers a free reward for every five books purchased and qualifies them for 15% off all regularly priced kids' titles through August.

A separate LifeWay emailing focuses on $5 deals. Among the musical titles available are Brandon Heath's What If and Diamond Rio's The Reason. DVDs include Second Chances and Mandie & The Secret Tunnel.

Mardel Christian & Education spotlights the Butterfly Wishes Collection of frames, candle holders, crosses and plaques all reduced to $7.99. Basic: Fear God, the first title in the new DVD series from author Francis Chan, is reduced from $14.99 to $10.99. Sale music at $9.99 includes Blink by Revive and Take Everything by Seventh Day Slumber.

CLC Christian Bookstores' Deal of the Week is The American Patriot's Bible from Thomas Nelson, half-priced at $29.99. The chain cuts Basic: Fear God to $13.19 and offers 60% off bestsellers including Deanne Gist's Beguiled and Steven James' The Pawn.

Two of the chains seem to have an eye on customers stocking up on summer vacation reading, with major book deals.

LifeWay Christian Stores rolls out a $5 Christian Fiction offer that includes Wanda Brunsettter's Allison's Journey, Don Brown's Defiance and Lori Copeland's Now and Always. Take Five, the latest release in Karen Kingsbury's "Above the Line" movie series, is offered for $10.99, down from $14.99.

LifeWay also prices first titles in seve4ral series at just $2.99 each, including Tim Downs' First the Dead, Robert Whitlow's Deeper Water, Colleen Coble's Lonestar Sanctuary and Robert Liparulo's House of Dark Shadows.

Mardel Christian & Education has 50% off children's titles in its Great Summer Reading promotion. Among the books are Isle of Swords by Wayne Thomas Batson ($4.999), Haunted Waters by Jerry B. Jenkins ($2.99) and The Mandie Collection, Volume 1 by Lois Gladys Leppard ($6.99).

Other featured books on sale include Predator by Terri Blackstock and Take Four (both from $14.99 to $10.99). Mardel's email also prices the complete Word of Promise Audio Bible at $99.99 (usual price $124.99) and the New Testament edition at $19.99, down by $10.

Family Christian Stores, meanwhile, focuses in film with half-price offers on titles including Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham and Fireproof: Special Collector's Edition each available at $9.99. Marriage drama, No Greater Love, is reduced to $12.49, as is the Left Behind Collection. Pro-life drama Bella is priced at $7.49.

Offered for $5 each with the purchase of one other DVD listed in the emailing are The Adventures of Ociee Nash and Because of Winn-Dixie: Filtered Version.

Savings are the main selling point, with LifeWay Christian Stores leading the way with its three-day Customer Appreciation Event running through June 16. The offer is for 33% off one in-store purchase.

Keeping Father's Day in mind, the chain also presents discounts on products aimed at dads. Among the specials are the ESV Literary Study Bible reduced from $49.99 to $9.99 and the John Maxwell Leadership Bible reduced from $69.99 to $34.99. DVD specials include Fireproof (from $19.98 to $10) and The Blind Side ($28.99 to $22.99).

Family Christian Stores majors on its $5 Doorbusters, which include inspirational mugs for fathers marked down from $9.99 each and Third Day's Revelation, usual price $13.99. The same discount is offered on Steven Curtis Chapman's This Moment: Cinderella Edition and Chris Tomlin's See the Morning.

Among the chain's half-price "doorbusters" are Fireproof ($9.99), Tony Dungy's Uncommon ($12.50) and The Word of Promise Audio Bible on mp3 ($35). Included in the email is a coupon-valid online or in-store--for 25% off one regular priced item through July 4, or an extra 10% off any one sale item.

Parable stores suggest that consumers "Take a Fiction Vacation," presenting a pre-buy offer on Karen Kinsgbury's Take Four. Released June 22, the novel can be purchased in advance for $9.97 (down from $14.99) and the email promotion features the opportunity to download a chapter from the book. The promotion also includes a $5-off coupon for online purchases totaling more than $30, through June 19.

CLC Christian Bookcenters has up to 60% off select bestsellers. Titles include The Chronological Study Bible ($69.99 to $34.99), Max Lucado's The Tallest of Smalls ($16.99 to $8.49) and Francis Chan's Crazy Love ($14.99 to $12.49). The chain's promotion includes a coupon for 20% off any one item, in-store.

At Mardel Christian & Education the ESV Study Bible in DuoTone is offered for $37.50 (reduced from $74.99). The chain also promotes a one-day music and apparel sale that offers 25% off all items in those categories on June 19.

Fathers and films are the twin focal points. With Father's Day approaching, Mardel Christian & Education offers the Busy Dad's Bible in DuoTone for $19.99, with the TNIV Study Bible in bonded leather available for $29.99.

The chain also presents men's leather wallets from Christian Art for $19.99 and offers 25% off a range of other gifts, including a silver watch fob with compass for $18.75.

Berean Christian Stores' email promotion leads with a revised and updated edition of John Eldredge's Wild at Heart for $13.99, down from $16.99. Among a selection of Bibles for men is Zondervan's Manual: the Bible for Men, reduced from $36.99 to $32.99. The dads' books selection features Tony Dung's Uncommon, reduced by $4 to $20.99.

CLC Christian Bookcenters leads with two coupons, one for 20% off any Father's Day Gift Display item and another "Celebrating Fatherhood" gift certificate for $5 on any purchase. Featured books include One-Minute Prayers for Men for $9.99 and the NIV Men's Devotional Bible for $11.99.

LifeWay Christian Stores presents the leatherbound One Year Devotional Prayer Book for $9.99, cut from its regular $22.99 price—but the chain's promotion leads with movies. Topping the list is a pre-buy offer on Letters to God. The film is made available for $10 less than the $24.99 regular price, with a free wristband worth $5 included.

Other films priced at $10 each include The River Within, Thou Shalt Laugh 4 and the pro-life drama, Sarah's Choice.

Mardel's one week sale on music and video titles offers Birdie & Bogey, The Imposter and In the Blink of an Eye for $9.99 each. Donald Miller's "Convergence" discussion series is priced at $7.99 per episode.

Family Christian Stores cuts the price of Oscar-winning The Blind Side from $28.99 to $24.97, while also offering 50% off selected books through June 20. The list includes Sarah Young's Jesus Calling ($7.49), Dave Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover ($12.49) and Gary Chapman's The 5 Love Languages ($7.49).

Parable stores feature a pre-buy offer: Newsboys' July release, Born Again, for $7.99 (down from $9.99), with a link to download five new songs from the band. The promotion also includes a coupon for 15% off an online purchase of $50 or more, through Saturday.

Savings seem to be the order of the day with three chains majoring on the deals they are offering.

Family Christian Stores' email centers on $5-to 50%-off specials running through May 23 on a wide range of children's titles. Included are DVDs like VeggieTales' Josh and the Big Wall and Gigi's Big Break or $5 each and an Adventures in Odyssey DVD Gift Set featuring four discs for $19.98 (regular price, $39.97).

A separate email from the chain offers a pre-buy of VeggieTales' forthcoming Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God"s Own Heart for $12.97 instead of $14.99. The ESV New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs is priced at $5.

LifeWay Christian Stores promotes its May 15 Fiction Day, with a coupon for an in-store 25% off any one novel. The "Summer O' Savings" emailing presents savings from $2 to $10 and more, with the complete Word of Promise Audio Bible reduced from $124.99 to $87.49. The offer also includes a free $10 savings card with each $40 purchase, in-store only.

Berean Christian Stores new music promotion offers Tenth Avenue North's new The Light Meets the Dark for $10 until May 18, while MercyMe's The Generous Mr. Lovewell is available for 20% off the $15.99 list price. Chris Tomlin's Arriving, Mandisa's Freedom and Matthew West's Something to Say are among $5 albums also offered.

As the Christian music industry gears up for its big day of the year—the Dove Awards ceremony, April 21—retailers are majoring on music in their promotions.

LifeWay Christian Stores offers savings on recordings by all the nominees, with Francesca Battistelli's My Paper Heart Deluxe, Jason Crabb's self-titled release and Toby Mac's Tonight among the titles reduced from $13.99 to $11.99 each. Casting Crowns' Until the Whole World Hears is reduced to $9.99, while Ten Avenue North's Over and Underneath is available for $7.99.

Parable Stores are taking 20% off all the nominees, reducing Mary Mary's The Sound to $11.98, Skillet's Awake to $13.58 and Tonight to $9.97.

Family Christian Stores (FCS) presents a $7.97 special running through April 23. Among the titles available are Hello Love (Chris Tomlin), A New Hallelujah (Michael W. Smith), The Altar and the Door (Casting Crpwns) and Beauty Will Rise (Steven Curtis Chapman).

The chain also offers MercyMe's forthcoming The Generous Mr. Lovewell for a pre-buy price of $11.99, down from $15.99, and a free "Lovewell" bracelet, value $1, commemorating a donation from the proceeds to FCS' The James Fund, partnering with the band to support well-drilling projects in the Dominican Republic.

Another FCS pre-buy offers Newsboys' Born Again, out July 13, for $9.97 instead of the regular $13.99.

Mardel Christian & Education's $5 Music Selection includes Chris Tomlin's See the Morning, Matthew West's Something to Say, Mandisa's Freedom and Rush of Fools' Wonder of the World.

LifeWay's email promotion also highlights its April 17, third annual Tax Savings Day, giving 10% off shoppers' entire purchase. FCS's promotion includes a coupon for 25% of any one regularly priced item or 10% off a sale item.

Family Christian Stores leads the Easter week specials, with a 50%-off offer on books including Max Lucado's Fearless (available for $12.49), Bruce Wilkinson's You Were Born for This ($11.49) and Jentezen Franklin's Fear Fighters ($10.99).

The discounts are included in an email promotion that also includes a 12 Days of Easter special running March 24-April 4 that prices online music album sales at $5.99. Featured titles include Phillips, Craig & Dean's Fearless, Skillet's Awake, Sara Groves' Fireflies & Songs and Sandi Patti's Hymns of Faith...Songs of Inspiration.

Mardel Christian & Education offers 25% off all books, Bibles and software on April 3. The promotion also spotlights Zondervan study Bibles, with the NIV Life Application Study Bible in chocolate/turquoise duotone reduced from $69.99 to $34.99 and the NIV Study Bible: Updated Edition hardcoivervdown from $39.99 to $19.99.

Mardel also promotes a range of journals for $5 each, children's DVDs such as the "Boz" series for $7.99 each and 50% of kids books and Bibles. New music available March 30 includes the soundtrack to the new movie, Letters to God, for $13.99 and Amy Grant's new Somewhere Down the Road offered for $11.99.

Grant's latest, 12-track release also leads the latest email offer from Parable stores, available for $11.97, with some of her other collections—including The Breakout Years and The Pop Collection—each priced at $13.19. Keeping with a music emphasis, Parable also offers 20% off recordings by the nominees for this year's Dove Awards, to be announced April 25.

The Parable promotion also includes an in-store only special-a free Max Lucado greeting card from DaySpring with the purchase of two others. The offer runs April 1-June 30.

LifeWay Christian Stores also focuses on Amy Grant, offering Somewhere Down the Road for $11.99. The chain's email offer also presents $5 CDs, including Meredith Andrews' The Invitation (down from $11.99) and Big Daddy Weave's What Would Life Be Like (reduced from $13.99).

MercyMe's The Generous Mr. Lovewell, to release May 4, is offered for pre-buy at $9.99, with purchasers also getting an exclusive water bottle and a $5 savings card. The chain also offers the new DVD release, The Blind Side, for $22.99, down from $28.98.

Canadian quartet Newworldson gets a boost for its self-titled sophomore release, with spotlight promotions from LifeWay Christian Stores, Mardel Christian & Education and the Parable group.

The chain offers the 12-track release for $7.99, with the online offer including the free download of more information about the band. The same price is presented by Mardel.

Meanwhile online shoppers at Parable stores are being given the opportunity to buy the new CD for $5.99—and register to win a four-day, three-night trip to the Bahamas.

LifeWay's email promotion also offers Guy Penrod's Breathe Deep for $11.99, $2 off the regular price and four favorites for $10 each: Michael W. Smith's A New Hallelujah, Selah's You Deliver Me, Jeremy Camp's Speaking Louder Than Before and Newsboys' In the Hands of God. LifeWay also offers a $10 savings card with each $40 buy through March 6, in-store only.

The Parable promotion includes music specials that sell TobyMac's Tonight for $9.97 instead of $13.99 and Casting Crowns' Until the Whole World Hears for $11.19 instead of $15.98. There is also a pre-buy price of $9.97 for the new VeggieTales release, Pistachio: The Little Boy that Woodn't, available from this weekend.

Mardel also offers more than a dozen new T-shirt designs for $12.99 each and 50% off select books and Bibles. Included are Willard F. Harley Jr.'s His Needs, Her Needs for $9.99 and Emmerson Eggerichs' The Language of Love and Respect for $7.49.

Family Christian Stores focuses on deals for "thought-provoking fiction," with $5 off selected Francine Rivers titles with a pre-purchase of her forthcoming Her Mother's Hope for $18.74 instead of $24.99. Karen Kingsbury's Take Three, the next in her filmmaker series, can be ordered in advance for $11.24 instead of $14.99.