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Today was Sarah’s first Mother’s Day! She is already an awesome mom.  We of course did not expect her to be celebrating (officially) Mother’s Day this year. . . but God’s in grace and provision, we have a healthy, beautiful little girl and Sarah is a brand new mom.  Today was a really pleasant day.  [...]

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Well, Abigail has been born for a week and on Monday she will have been home for a week. Below is a video of a bath we gave her. She seems to really enjoy the baths. She particularly enjoys getting her head brushed.  Right now life is pretty simple.  Sarah and I [...]

 

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Great news! Abigail Sophia Mourreale was able to go home today. Sarah and I are very excited. Thank you all for your prayers and support. As you know, Abby coming this early was a surprise to us, but we thank God that she is health and strong.

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Abby is doing very well this morning. Her breathing is not labored anymore and she is eating and pooping well! Sarah and I are living here at the hospital (Sarah is being released today and I have been sleeping on a pullout couch–a big thank you goes out to my sister-in-law LiAnne for “calling [...]

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At 4:48 am in Tucson AZ, Sarah gave birth to Abigail Sophia Mourreale. Abby weighed 4 lbs 11oz. Sarah did amazing! Yesterday at 5:00 pm, Sarah’s water broke. (Yeah so that makes the entire labor less then 12 hours. . . not bad for a first time mommy!) Because she was 35 weeks [...]

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Last week I attended the Presbytery of the Southwest (PCA) meeting with Pastors Phil Kruis and Luke Evans, Parker Tenet who is the University of Arizona RUF minister, and Ruling Elders Dean Saxton and Paul Marien in Alamogordo, NM.

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These are some pictures from a recent hike up Mt. Wrightson. The hike is a total of around 10.8 miles if you take the Old Baldy trail and has close to 4000 feet of elevation gain. The views are spectacular! The hike is strenuous but worth it for the views.

The nearby observatory

A view [...]

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The Mosin-Nagant is the first firearm I have ever bought. It has a date stamp of 1942, and was made in the former Soviet Union. I’m have never really been “into” guns, but for me, this is a very interesting gun with an interesting history. The Mosin-Nagant is a bolt action [...]

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The other day I had an interesting discussion. Really, it was a debate on the sovereignty of God. It was said to me: “God only knows about what is going to happen, but does not control things.” Well, naturally I reject this line of thinking and said so, but it got me to [...]

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John Piper has a really interesting article on preaching on concept and not simply contextualization. The adventure of preaching sometimes is taking the Biblical truths we work through in the study and bringing it out in a helpful way in the pulpit. There are many books and theories as to how best preach. [...]

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