After Flywheel , the best-selling DVDs were: 2. The Flo Show Creates a Buzz, Max Lucado's Hermie & Friends (Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 3. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 4. The Ultimate Gift (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Word Distribution); 5. The Wager (Pure Flix Entertainment/Genius Products/EMI CMG); 6. The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Five & Two Pictures/Christiano Film Group/Bridgestone Multimedia Group); 7. How Great Thou Art by Bill & Gloria Gaither and Their Homecoming Friends (Gaither Music Group/EMI CMG Distribution); 8. Faith Like Potatoes (Affirm Films/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 9. Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't, VeggieTales (Big Idea/Word); and 10. A Letter to Dad (Bridgestone Multimedia Group).

The president of Cornerstone Television and a National Religious Broadcasters board member, Hembree wrote more than 70 books, including Sixty Seconds With God ("Good Morning Lord Devotions") (Christian Art Gifts) and Fruit of the Spirit: The Keys to Christian Personality (Revell).

Two publishers are reducing some Christian classics to bite- and even nibble-sized portions to introduce them to a new audience.

Barbour Publishing, which has published classic titles for almost 30 years, has cut the works of authors like John Bunyan and Charles Sheldon by up to half for a new budget series, while Regal Books has reduced some of A.W. Tozer's writings to a sentence in a social media campaign.

Honoring the work of top Canadian Christian writers, the awards featured 18 book categories. In the Apologetics category, Red Letter Revolution: If We Did Revolution Jesus' Way by Colin McCartney (Castle Quay Books) won, while Jesus, the Final Days by Craig A. Evans and N.T. Wright (Westminster John Knox Press/Augsburg Fortress Canada) was the winner in Biblical Studies.

The as-yet-unnamed event will bring together Christian Trade Association International (CTAI) and the Inspirational Value Book Show (IVBS), who earlier this year revealed the intent to merge their separate events, with a third partner--CBA.

The month's sales for religious books rose 19.3% to $46.6 million, and sales were up by 1.3% for the year. Sales of religious books had its largest increase in more than a year in March. Other than a small increase in December, the religious books category had been on a steady decline since January 2009.