Thank you for my new shirt and awesome koala bear socks(all the way from Australia), Uncle Kevin! I miss you!
We all celebrated surviving a year! Yeah!!! To celebrate Luke got LOTS of presents...and Mommy & Daddy got lots of offers to have date nights! And we did! What a challenging yet wonderful year we have had!
About a week before Christmas Luke started to take his first steps! We had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed our trip to N.J. where we had lots of good food...and warm & loving company!
In contemporary Christianity there is an essential difference between belief and faith. Our religious beliefs are the visible expression of our faith, our personal commitment to the person of Jesus. However, if the Christian beliefs inherited from our family and passed on to us by our church tradition are not grounded in a shattering, life-changing experience of Jesus as the Christ, then the chasm between our credal statements and our faith-experience widens and our witness is worthless. The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it - B. Manning