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!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Long time... no excuses...





So yeah, um is seven months too long to go between posts??
Well... YES! So rather than attempting to make up on time/pictures and experiences lost to our last seven months, we are just going to pick up from here and work at being more diligent in sharing with all of you what God continues to do by grace in our lives.

- So a couple quick things, we as a family are now members of Redeemer Bible Church, which we've been so blessed to become apart of and are able to grow in our understanding and complete trust in the Gospel for everything in our life.
- So we are expecting another boy to arrive in just over 5 weeks, March 9th, if he can hang out until then... and by the way his name is Jude.
- Keenan will be 4 in less than a month and continues to remind us of how precious time is and how much we need grace daily to raise him according to the commands of Scripture. He is growing up to be such a big boy and is starting to make and love all his new friends...

That's all for now, and here are some recent pics, did we mention MN is known for snow??!!
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