November Update

Dear Barefoot Friends,

Another year is rushing towards the finish line. The older we get, the quicker they seem to pass. We greatly enjoyed the summer season, but we love autumn, which signals for us the season of Thanksgiving (we always have a BIG family celebration). Then Advent will be upon us, the beginning of a new year in the seasons of the Church calendar.

This year, of course, we are releasing our new Christmas CD, a project we started a few years back but then set aside for a while. Now we are sowing it as seed. I am particularly struck by how so many of the carols are about the coming of Jesus into the world, not only as Savior and Redeemer, but as King.

• "He come from the glorious kingdom."
• "The manger in Bethlehem cradles a King."
• "Born a King on Bethlehem's plain. Gold I bring to crown Him again."
• "This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds laud and angels sing."
• "Come adore on bended knee, Christ the Lord, the newborn King."
• "Joy to the world! The Lord is come. Let earth receive her King!"

The birth of Jesus Christ is the kingdom of heaven breaking into the earth — and that changes everything! The child born in Bethlehem so many years ago now rules and reigns over all at the right hand of the Father.

The CD is now being mastered and we should have it in hand by week's end to send off for manufacture. We will also have it available in MP3 download from Amazon.com. You will be able to download the entire album in MP3 for $8.99. I'll have those links for you within the next couple of weeks.

For your Advent and Christmas preparation, we also have the little devotional book we released last year, From the Manger to the Cross: Advent and Christmas Meditations on the King who was Born in a Stable, Crowned with Thorns and Reigns Forever. Available in paperback and also in ebook formats:(Kindle, PDF, ePub, LRF (Sony Reader) and PDB (Palm Doc). You can preview it here with Amazon's "Look Inside" feature.