Our Lord’s Day was filled with blessing even as we were thankful to God for protecting us on the way to church. The snowpack on the highways made for slippery driving. Some people were late getting to church because of large drifts of snow blocking driveways and side roads. One elder said that he was nearly t-boned by another vehicle on the way to church. Praise God everyone arrived safely.
I preached the final of my series on the doctrines of grace, looking at the P in TULIP, ‘the perseverance of the saints’. My hope is that many people we encouraged to press on, suffer ‘outside the camp’ with Christ, bearing his reproach as ‘martyr/witnesses’.
It was encouraging to have a visitor from Texas with us. He attends a church in Laredo on the Mexico border. He was vacationing in the Rockies and looked up our church. How encouraging to know that this young man had such good teaching in Texas which fit with what he was taught in Calgary.
After the service, we dispatched our three sons with friends who took them home with them. Later reports indicated there was lots of D-Day planning and assaulting the ramparts. But such is the case with a large group of young boys.
Later on, as empty nesters, Christel and I rested with food and drink by the fire and watched an old Tom Clancy movie. We enjoyed seeing how archaic the computers seemed from way back in 1990.