Shown Mercy

September: a month of craziness and relying on God's grace....  ( Above : Jana showing off the size of gigantic chocolate bar our friend and house guest, Steve Timmis, gifted us with from England during his earlier stay.  My kids were quite wide-eyed at the sight of it. Below : Leading worship with sweet, gifted, godly girlfriend, Jenni Price at SEBTS connecting point one evening earlier this month.)  Tony preaching the Word at SEBTS chapel...  Our car full of kiddos headed to their growth groups at IDC... too much cuteness for one car, ha....  September has us running from one side of town to the other for softball and baseball games... too much fun....  Squeezed in a night with my T25 workout girls' support group :-)... So grateful for these sisters...  He looks like a professional, doesn't he?!.   Setting up at Imago Dei's new place of gathering for corporate worship...  A few candid shots from our IDC growth group... love

Over the summer our Imago Dei growth groups have been reading and discussing the book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life  by Donald Whitney.  It has been a rich time.  Tony and I have worked through this book before (a few times in fact).  At the end of the chapter on stewardship I found these words written under the bibliography section: I praise God for his grace and faithfulness in answering my husband's prayer for his own faithful stewardship of both time and money.  In case you have difficulty ready his writing from the above picture, it reads: 2 yrs. (1) family - spend time and share Gospel (2) write (3) preaching - keep it up (4) giving lavishly (5) plant a church in a major city Two years ago, Imago Dei Church was officially launched in Raleigh (a long time dream come true!).  On September 11, 2011 we gathered outside of our home (where we had begun meeting earlier that summer) in East Millbrook Middle School Auditorium.  This Sunday, on Sept