Saturday night at home

After hockey season starts, it is quite strange for me to be "at home" on a Saturday night. However, despite the fact that our Three Hills Thrashers are on the road tonight in Claresholm, I decided to stay home. NO, my wife does not "make me" stay at home... I want to stay at home and spend time with her (and baby) and it truly does not feel like a "sacrifice" in any way. Of course, it does help to be able to hear the Hockey Night in Canada game in the background - Toronto vs Chicago... and to hear Canada's second national anthem a few minutes ago... and to know that the Flames and Oilers will be playing later... that should be good for our marriage... Sarah cheers for the wrong team and I'm a Flames fan! My amazing wife comes to our home games (usually on Friday nights) even though I'm immersed in the action and can't talk too much to her. But she loves me, is learning to like hockey, and believes this is part of our life/ministry together. Yes, I'm too blessed!

Amazing Technology for an Amazing Baby

On Monday, Sarah and I had an appointment in Calgary for the 4-D ultrasound. And we had the incredible privilege of seeing our little baby in all his/her at 18 weeks! It is incredible to live in an age of such technological development... and to be able to see baby's legs, arms, head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth... which was moving fairly steadily... must get that from his/her grandma(s)!
And yes, the lady doing the ultrasound could measure the length of baby totally, of the femur, kidneys, liver, etc, etc. We bought the $20 DVD of a couple of real-time pictures and then showed them to both M&D Hunt and M&D Ibbotson. Of course baby is/will be amazing - after all, look who his/her parents are! (just kidding, sorta) Actually, its really "How Great is our God"... Yes, we've been enjoying that Chris Tomlin song lots in the past few months!

Of course, with such amazing technology as this, no person on the planet has any rational argument to deny that life begins at conception (and thus abortion is murder)... but "willful ignorance." Remember Spiderman 1:1 - "With great privilege (aka living in this age of technology) comes great responsibility."

Happy Thanksgiving

Given that it is Thanksgiving weekend, I should pause and share a few of the MANY things I have to be thankful - though as Mark Buchanen shared in PCA chapel on Thursday, being thankful is one of the signs of a person who is "dangerous" for Christ... and of course, any good leader knows that the last thing one says is "thank you" (I believe that's a Max DePree quote, but I'm not 100% sure!)

First of all, I am so thankful for the gift of life, physically, but also spiritually through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Second, I am so thankful for my family... and esp this year for my amazing wife, Sarah, and are new baby that is due in March 2008. And yes, I love my mother and father and siblings, and my mother-in-law and father-in-law and new sibling-in-laws too. I thought I already had one amazing family... and God has blessed me/us with another incredible family that prays for us, supports us, encourages us, and loves us! WOW!

Thirdly, I'm thankful for my brothers and sisters in Christ, esp those we fellowship with at Prairie Tabernacle (shameless plug: check out the new website). We are soooo blessed with Pastor Tim Strickland and his wife, Carol, and their family. They are a gift of God to our congregation and also good friends!

I could go on forever thanking God for all His blessings... but you don't have time to read them all and I don't have time to type them all. So, happy thanksgiving!