Blog 21

The Gospel according to St. Luke (2:1-14)
1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. 8And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." 13Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Merry Christmas ! Enjoy the video below.

Reader Rich Barrett has chimed in with more North Point news !
this new worship CD from Access worship leaders Steve Fee, Todd Fields, Chrystina Fincher, and Eddie Kirkland and was recorded live this fall.

Enjoy this from Sidewalk Prophets... Anderson University grads mostly, who are friends with our Pastor's Daughter. They do "fill-in" worship at our Church when our Worship Pastor is out of town.

Their music is available on iTunes here
This one is just pure fun.

So for a bit now I have been trying to track down a song that we sing at church by Todd Fields called "You Are", with not much success. In fact I found another "You Are" on iTunes on a Women of Faith CD (it's actually decent). So anyhoo I stumble upon the version I really want on iTunes on Friday by pure divine act of God. It's a live version (even better, I totally prefer live albums... err... tracks..... I mean .mp3 files) that is on North Point Live. The cool part is has a bunch of other stuff I like as well. I need to talk to my worship pastor and crack his music collection. (Click the post title to see the CD at Amazon.)

Interesting enough North Point Community Church offers some of the same programs that our church does, that Andy Stanley (yes... son of Charles Stanley) is really making some waves.

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