What's on our hearts lately...

The Gospel.
Nothing can change everything in your life quite like the grace of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ. That period at the end of that sentence is critical, for Jesus Himself said boldly, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" John 14:6 which sums up Acts 4:12 in "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
If you want to see the gospel in an even clearer section of Scripture, there may be no better description than what Paul provides in Romans 3:19-26, which comes right after chapters 1 and 2 of Romans in which it's clear that all mankind from birth are guilty as sinful people before God's holiness and therefore are without excuse in regards to His commands. And thus the only hope for any of us, is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. To do as Christ first commanded in Mark 1:15 and "to repent and believe in the gospel" which is to repent of our sins and self-focused life and to trust in Christ by faith, only then will God see all our sins as being imputed to Christ on the Cross and His righteousness as imputed to us, so now when God sees us, He sees us as having lived the life of Christ! 2 Cor. 5:21, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
What grace.... what mercy!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Pacific Hope Send off Party...






So our incredible family from Pacific Hope held a get together to fellowship over our departure as well as the Judd family. Our friends Chris and Nicole Halloway have a little girl named Nina, full name is Virginia, but needless to say, Keenan and her have a little thing for one another... See below. Also the first picture is funny and great. Funny, b/c Keenan has just knocked my glasses off, but great, b/c you can really see how much fun everyone is having behind us, so many blessed friends and memories, Meliss and I know we are leaving a rich and unique group of redeemed sinners. But we will have our brother's and sister's for eternity, so that is our hope now and years from today.
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Keenan and Caden



So here is a little video from Saturday night when Keenan's god buddy Caden Callero came over for a night. We have had a great free babysitting swap with them since the boys have been born, so we can each go out on date nights. Needless to say, the boys had a blast and no nothing broke at the end....
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

More from Keenan's birthday party



Here are some pictures from a big thing of balloons that Keenan got from his Grandpa Dennis and Grandma Cottardi. These were HUGE, to say the least...
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Keenan's 3rd birthday party






Here are some fun pictures from Keenan's birthday party this year. We kept it small and held it at a great little Burger place, which has an outside patio area, safe enough for the kids to run around in. It's called Station Tavern and has a railroad theme, thus the "car" all the kids can sit in. We are very blessed by our little big man. Just had his 3 yr. check yesterday and he is officially, 38 lbs. and 38.5" tall. Big dude for sure!
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Shepherd's Conference 2010




I got a chance to go up to the Shepherd's Conference again this year, and it was once again a rich time of fellowship. There were about 15 of us from our church and we were privileged to have Dr. Steve Lawson come back with us and preach at Pacific Hope this past Sunday, out of Job 1, which was the same text he brought before about 3500 pastors, elders, deacons, leaders of churches from around the world. What a long, mind-filling and enriching time this was. I know the blurred picture is kinda bad, but it's of John MacArthur and how close I was able to be while he preached, plus it's kinda cool. The other picture is me with (l to r) elders Ryan Ackerland and Junior Stahlman as well as my longtime friend Kevin Hovell, one of the deacons at our great church.
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