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We will also have pre-order options available VERY SOON where you will be able to get an instant download of “Healing Begins” with CD purchase if you’d prefer to wait. We’re working as hard as we can to get these options up and ready for you guys ASAP. Thanks for your patience!

Also, “Healing Begins” officially goes for adds at Christian radio this Friday, March 5th, so hopefully you will start hearing the song soon. If not, let your local station know you want to start hearing it! As always, we appreciate all of you and your overwhelming support. We hope “Healing Begins” resonates with you, as well as the rest of the new album, which you will get to hear soon!

Martin Luther once said that we must beat the gospel into people’s heads incessantly, for it’s the one thing that we are most prone to forget. Funny, because that’s a huge reason why we wrote most of the songs on our last record, Over and Underneath. Not that we wanted to beat people up, necessarily, but our hope was definitely what Luther spoke of, in that, we wanted those who heard our songs to hear the gospel, that is, that we don’t earn grace, grace was earned for us. And we wanted to beat it into the heads of those listening, starting with our own. That’s what the title was all about: Over and Underneath. At the heights of our purity, Christ has gone higher; at the depths of our depravity, Christ has gone lower, bearing our sins on the cross. No matter how pure we are, we need Him still, and no matter how far we’ve fallen, we’re not too far gone.

This is what we feel the gospel is, and it’s what we hope to continue to communicate with our sophomore release, The Light Meets The Dark. Our desire for this record is simply to be the next step. It’s a call not only to believe the gospel but to let it so saturate our minds and hearts that we actually begin to live like we believe it. But of course, that might be a little different than you think. This record isn’t a call for better living and high achieving, more commitments and greater successes. It’s a cry for confession, exposure, and the laying down of our pride. It’s a cry for honesty, for truth, and for an encounter with the One who is truth, and having that encounter change the way we see the world. You see, when we believe this thing we call the gospel, it allows us to be honest about who we really are. Or should I say, it forces us to come to terms with who we are. It frees us to not only be exposed but to be ok about being exposed; to speak our pain and fears out into the open. It frees us to be poor in spirit. Which, isn’t that the goal after all?

I heard it said once that the best thing that could ever happen to any of us is if all of our sins were broadcast on the five o’clock news. And yeah, that can be a fairly disturbing thought, I suppose, but think about it for a moment. Think of how scary that is, and yet somehow, so incredibly freeing, too. If everyone knew all your junk, all your fears, all your questions, you wouldn’t have to hide anymore. No more masks.  No more pretending. Just you, and hopefully, the grace that comes when we step into the light. Sure, it can be the most terrifying step you’ll ever have to take, but when we do, when we lay our souls out naked and bare for all to see, it forces us out of the shadows and into a place where life begins. It’s where the light meets the dark, and it’s where we want to be. Hope to meet you there.
-Mike Donehey

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Also, check out all the great pics submitted through the Flickr Tenth Avenue North Photos group!

Mike D’s word of the day, as featured in this video: tempestuous

A BIG thanks to all who support this band and their ministry. Last year, they couldn’t have won New Artist of the Year without you and the same goes for this year’s nominations! Feel free to leave your congratulatory messages for the band.

Note: Mike also received a nomination in the Special Event Album of the Year category for his work on Glory Revealed II: The Word of God in Worship.

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We will post some of our favorites right here in Volume 6 soon!

Thanks to everyone who has supported the band out on the road the past several years. We hope to see many of you soon (check the tour page to see if they are already planning to come your way!).

Global Centurion, The Home Foundation, Love146, Call and Response, Renewal Forum, Fondation Espoir, Salvation Army, Olive Branch International, Doctors at War on Trafficking, Equitas Group, Gracehaven, World Hope International, Beyond Borders, Restavek Foundation, and Fondation la Limye Lavi announce a first response campaign to develop and distribute simple, clear information campaigns designed to prevent human trafficking after the earthquake.

Take action and join in our efforts to raise awareness in Haiti against the dangers of Human Trafficking.

1. Text SAFE to 85944 and donate $10 to help
2. Post this on your Page
3. Twitter and SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Read more about what we are doing in HAITI on our website www.thehomefoundation.net/blog