Daniel J. Mount is a Christian songwriter, author, and speaker. His current book, The Faith of America’s Presidents, can be ordered from Amazon or christianbook.com. Thank you for visiting!

ChristianFilmmakers.org sponsored a contest last weekend challenging Christian filmmakers to make a short 3-minute film in 36 hours. Some of the entries were so good that I had to write a post about them! The Boy with $100. Great story, and excellent acting for a lead so young. What is Your Favorite. Great acting. Pet-ty Cash. The Artist. [EDIT: Video since removed] I struggled with where to rank this one. Somehow, entering it, I found...

Ever since I launched www.danielmount.net, I hoped that the .com equivalent would come available. Well, it finally did, and though I had a few months of technical difficulties in setting it up, it’s finally live. Along with the new domain launch, I also launched a new website design yesterday.

Some of you have heard these quotes: “History tells the truth, but not the whole truth.” “History is written by the winners.” There’s something to each of those statements. So why even try? Why study history? That’s a question I’ve been pondering, and I’m not really sure I have an answer. But this I do know: Some topics are so vast that it would be impossible to completely cover them in one...

A certain old church classic, “Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of That City,” has been on my mind and heart a lot over the last few days. A friend in my town, who attended my church periodically, shared my love of Southern Gospel music. Sometimes he’d bring his guitar and help lead worship while I played piano. He had some mental issues and may have been slightly retarded, but he was one of the sweetest older men (50s)...

Well, I decided to take the plunge and start a personal blog. (I say personal since my Southern Gospel Blog is still running strong. This blog will deal with non-SG topics.) Here I am!