When Jonny Diaz wrote his hit single, “More Beautiful You,” I don’t think he could have predicted the impact it made on women of all ages across the country.

While society tells us there will always be someone more beautiful than us, or someway to make ourselves more beautiful by trying this or losing that, Jonny’s song reminds us that we are God’s masterpiece, His perfect imperfection, and He doesn’t make mistakes.

So Jonny teamed up with his mother, Gwendolyn Diaz, and together they wrote the book “More Beautiful You,” a short study on “true beauty” through God’s eyes.  It’s an encouragement to all women who have been worn down by societies expectations that you’re not alone in your struggles, and that there could never be a “More Beautiful You.”

Here’s the powerful music video for “More Beautiful You”:

Jonny’s book is on sale now on his website, but I have five books here with me that I’m looking to give away.  Comment back on this post with your definition of true beauty, and I’ll randomly choose five winners in 2 weeks (8/30) and send you his book!

Tell someone they’re beautiful today,

Mikaela

I know, I know. Last week’s Skillet quiz was way too easy for you guys- not to mention everyone could see everyone else’s answers in the comments. lol I guess I didn’t completely think through that part of it. HOWEVER- we’ve got another round for you this week that will hopefully be a bit more hardcore.

Here’s why:

(1) I’m only streaming 10 seconds of each song- that way you really have to know your stuff to figure out which one it is. Plus I made sure to keep out the giveaway parts of each song- for example- on “Best Kept Secret” that would be the part where John sings “You’re The Best Kept Secret!” over an over again…

(2) Instead of sending your answers in a comment for everyone else to see, we’d like you to send it to us in a direct Twitter message (Twitter.com/freeccm). If you don’t have Twitter and are not interested in jumping on it, you can also email your answers to us (freeccmcontest@gmail.com).

(3) Well, this doesn’t really have anything to do with anything, but I stumbled across this old school Skillet music video the other day and just wanted to throw it up here for fun. �

We’ll have another round next week that will be even more difficult, so I’m excited to see how many of you make it to the end. I might do 2 second clips or something Also, don’t forget about Skillet’s special sale on iTunes right now for all of their music from “The Early Years.” Click here to go check it out!

Alright, enough talk- here it is:

Name that song!

I have randomly selected 3 clips from past Skillet albums- Listen to each one below and name the song and album title it comes from.

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P.S. Congrats to Michael for winning last week’s prize!

Okay, so we’ve got a little trivia for you today- see if you can name this band:

A musical group named after a kitchen tool commonly used for frying things.

30 seconds…

20 …

10…

Time’s up!

If you guessed Skillet, then you’re correct! This month we’ve got a special blast from the past feature going here with all things Skillet. Did you know this rockin’ band has released 9 albums in their lifetime? They’ve also been doing what they do since 1996! So we thought it would be fun to do a little game and see how many of you can get all the right answers! If you do, you could randomly be chosen to win an entire Skillet CD library, so best of luck! Even if you don’t win, you can still get all of their music from “The Early Years” on sale this month at iTunes! Click here to go check it out.

Alright, so here’s the quiz- Post your answers in a comment to enter-

The ‘Name That Song’ Game!

I have randomly selected 3 clips from past Skillet albums- Listen to each one below and name the song title and album it comes from. Ready, set, go!

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Winner chosen. Congrats to Michael for taking home the prize this week!

Hey friends, Intern Mikaela here.

I’m not from Nashville and I must say, ya’ll have some confusing weather around here. I mean, it will be a scorching 99 degrees outside and then start pouring rain within a 5 minute span. Weird.

Anyways, Nashville makes up for it by having some pretty awesome sunsets.  Recently, every time I’ve seen a sunset, or the unfortunate times when I’ve been awake early enough to catch the sunrise, I’ve thought of The After’s new song, Light Up The Sky. The chorus says “light, light, light up the sky, You light up the sky to show me You are with me.” I think it’s a great reminder that just like God faithfully provides a sunrise and sunset everyday, He is faithfully with us always, through good times and bad.

As a major photography lover, I try to take as many pictures of sunsets as possible.  After all, not one is the same, right?  Here are a couple of my favorite sunsets:

The first picture I took on an airplane from Peru, the second picture is off of my deck at my house in Austin, Texas, and the third picture is on a beach in Peru. All of this being said, I want to see your best pictures of a sunset or sunrise and the place where you took it! Email them to me at FreeCCMcontest@gmail.com.

In fact I’ll even randomly choose 5 people to win The Afters’ new album, “Light Up The Sky” before it hits stores! Not a photographer? That’s ok- you can still enter to win by simply leaving a comment on this blog post about your favorite song from the band. Sound good?

Don’t forget to go get The Afters’ new “EP on iTunes today!

-Mikaela

(Winners will be chosen on Aug. 18, and will be contacted via email)