tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post7216634699075519288..comments2023-05-02T04:56:57.800-07:00Comments on Stuff from Mitch and Steph: Getting Jesus when you dont think you need HimUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post-5012674038767111822007-12-31T06:10:00.000-08:002007-12-31T06:10:00.000-08:00Mitch, Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Hald...Mitch, <BR/>Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Haldeighs baptism. Shari and I wish we would've been there to share in that moment with you. <BR/><BR/>One of our favorite moments at Redeemer occured during the baptism of Emily Potts. Shari and I both began to cry as we watched Ricky pour the water over Emily's head. What a beautiful sight! <BR/><BR/>We look forward to seeing more and more of our youth move from an engagment with Jesus to marriage. <BR/><BR/>ShaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post-54010839156942713112007-12-27T11:28:00.001-08:002007-12-27T11:28:00.001-08:00ttAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post-88147741367282789802007-12-27T11:28:00.000-08:002007-12-27T11:28:00.000-08:00testtestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post-61901341198741334722007-12-27T11:26:00.001-08:002007-12-27T11:26:00.001-08:00testtestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-555059479907870182.post-64252384882744263652007-12-27T10:21:00.000-08:002007-12-27T10:21:00.000-08:00Response by John Knorr:As I baptized Isaac Sunday ...Response by John Knorr:<BR/><BR/>As I baptized Isaac Sunday I prayed, knowing that there were many family members listening, asking God to give him faith now if he so willed, for he is able. I dont know that John the Baptist had faith as he leaped in the womb of his mother when she met Mary, but as I peer into the teaching of election in the Bible my heart is warmed with the same comfort as your blog. God has covenanted with my children, and he is able to save them, so I will beg for their souls now. <BR/><BR/>Today we changed our tradition of Christmas. I was influenced by many things, not the least was two services on Christmas eve, and a short conversation with Adrien Potts, in which he expressed his bewilderment that we Americans do not go to church on Christmas. We treated the day's celebration more sacrementally than we have ever. We read, as usual, the Christmas story after eating together, but then we continued to read scripture intermittently as we opened gifts, praying at each interval, and sometimes breaking out into a hymn. I found myself reading the end of the story in revelation just before we opened up another batch of gifts, and it became extremely apperant that the gifts we were so excited to give and receive were very small compared to what is going on in redemptive history. I read of the Lamb being exalted for who he is, and the bride being swept up by him so that she would have no more tears of sorrow, no more pain do to sin, no more death because of covenant breaking. I read of how he will reach to the deepest desire of my soul and answer, it is true! It is all true. What you have hoped for and beyond is going to come true. Then I looked down at the gift in my hand and it just seemed small, not enough, I guess, to equal what we were celebrating. <BR/><BR/>blessings,<BR/><BR/>JohnMitch Deeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17069214265863898921noreply@blogger.com