Bruce Wilkinson, author of the mega best-seller The Prayer of Jabez, believes in miracles and explains how Christians can see them today in You Were Born For This: Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles. Listen to his interview with Christian Retailing assistant editor DeWayne Hamby.

The Crazy Love author returns with a strong, new challenge to churches. Listen below as Christian Retailing Assistant Editor DeWayne Hamby talks with Francis Chan.

The Blue Like Jazz author speaks about his new book, his bike ride across America, his involvement in President Obama's campaign and more.

Name: Donald Miller

Current project: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (978-0-785-21306-2, $19.99, Thomas Nelson).

Hometown: Portland, Ore.

With your new book, we thought we might be writing about it last year.

"Yeah, sorry about that."

What can you tell us about it?

“Essentially it's about a couple screenwriters came to town to make a movie out of Blue Like Jazz. And they started changing so much of it to make it more meaningful and entertaining. And I'm helping them write it. Here I am, I'm editing my life to make it more meaningful and entertaining. I thought 'what if I really did this in my life? What if I actually did these things? A character with a strong ambition that's self sacrificing tells a much better story.

Donald Miller, whose spiritual memoir Blue Like Jazz carved a spot in publishing for “nonreligious” spiritual thought, is focused on the idea of story in his latest release, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Own Life.

Writers including Paul Baloche, Don Poythress, Jared Anderson, Tony Wood, Chris Eaton and Joel Augé deliver songs from shepherds, kings and angels to join the voices of Mary and Joseph as they celebrate the birth of the Savior.

The 11-track project begins with a special version of "Offering" penned by Baloche, a two-time Dove Award winner for Inspirational Song of the Year. "Offering" is performed by Baloche and fellow artists, including Lincoln Brewster and Kari Jobe.

From there, the album flows into "Adore Him," penned by Poythress and Wood and delivered by Jobe, the best-selling new artist in Christian music.

Other standouts include "Glory to God," another Poythress/Wood song Brewster delivers in rocking style, and "Messiah's Song," written and sung by Anderson.

Poythress, who is known for writing hits for country stars like Tim McGraw and Clint Black, performs "Joseph," a look at the Christmas story from an unsung hero.

A companion CD-ROM digital songbook, which releases simultaneously with the CD, is fully transposable and offers printable sheet music, chord charts and lyric text files.

To order the CD (0-00768-46852-4) and digital songbook (0-00768-46850-0), call 800-333-9000, or visit www.provident-integrity.com.

Shannon Walker is Integrity Music's media relations director.

The David Crowder Band unveils its latest project, Church Music, in hopes of prompting listeners to notice the changes in music within the church from ages past through today. The self-produced fifth studio album from the Dove Award-winning group of six will release Sept. 22 from sixstepsrecords and EMI CMG Distribution.

"I hope this album serves as a reminder of music within the church, of its richness and its broadness, and the tension that exists in using elements of cultural language to express our collective experience and also still remain a transformative presence that is set apart," said band frontman David Crowder.

To add to the project's uniqueness, its 17 songs play continuously with one song blending into the next.

First single "How He Loves" is "the pronouncement that church music helps us realign ourselves to some of the more beautiful things about our existence," Crowder said.

One of his favorites is "God Almighty, None Compares," because of its guitar harmony, and "Oh, Happiness" sounds like it "has a lot of sunshine in it," he said.

For the epic "Eastern Hymn," Crowder commissioned the translation of an ancient Chinese prayer book, portions of which appear in the chorus.

Church Music is the follow-up to David Crowder Band's 2007 release, Remedy. Along with the group's six GMA Dove Awards and 17 nominations, David Crowder Band was also the first Christian artist to be named MSN.com's Artist of the Year.

To order, call 800-877-4443, or go to www.emicmgdistribution.com.

Courtney Hyder is a publicist with The M Collective in Franklin, Tenn.