Dedication Day

Our little grandson was dedicated at church last Sunday.  My son and his wife prayed for guidance and direction from the Lord for raising their son.  The Scriptures tells us:

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6

But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.”   Matthew 19:14 

We as a family will ask for the Lord's help and guidance in communicating Jesus' love and his gift of salvation to our little guy. We will pray that the Lord will continually show his love and provide protection over him. 

I am so thankful for this little miracle in our lives.

Picnic In The Park

Our church had our annual picnic last Sunday. There were plenty of activities for all ages. There were jump houses, games and face painting for the kids, & a concert featuring Jeff Anderson and Esterlyn in the Julia Davis Park Band Shell.

One of the highlights of the picnic is the water baptism that was conducted in the Boise River. The river banks were lined with hundreds of people, those who are being baptized and those who were there to support and cheer them on. Baptism is an outward sign of a decision that is made in the heart, a decision to accept the gift of salvation that Christ has offered to each one of us.

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. Romans 6:3-5

Baptism is a picture of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. Into the water is death & burial and coming out of the water represents Christ’s resurrection new body and new life.


You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26-28

Pomp & Circumstance

This last weekend was an eventful one. My daughter has been studying at Calvary Chapel Bible College and has attained her Theology Degree. Although she’s spent the last two semesters in York, England, we traveled to the main campus in Murrieta, California, where she spent her first year, to attend the graduation ceremony. The other big event was my daughter turned twenty, no longer a teenager. Two more milestones that say she’s heading out on a life of her own. I told her that she was supposed to stay four years old and not grow up on me. She laughed, probably not realizing that I meant it.

Part of the anxiety of my little girl growing up is she’ll be striking out on her own soon. It’s hard to let go of her and put her completely in God’s hands. I’m one of those fathers that would sit up and wait for her, when she was out with her friends, until she got home, regardless of the time. Just for the record, I’m not any better regarding my son. A married man of 24, in my mind he’s all of five years old. It’s been difficult to let go knowing that he and his wife need to strike out on their own.

I’m really going to have to put I Peter 5:7 to the test. You know the passage:

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Solomon writes in I Psalm 127:3 that children are a reward from the Lord. I thank the Lord for rewarding me with such wonderful children. A reward that lives on regardless of age.