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Breaking News: I’m gonna be a daddy, again!

12.2.2008 — 15 Comments


Today we confirmed that Jess is ‘about’ 13-weeks pregnant!

We were privileged to hear the baby’s heartbeat and meet a great new doctor and nurses that will become ‘friends’ through this process!

Ella is excited about becoming a sister and is leaning more towards a baby sister per her consistent answers.

Thanks, in advance, for your prayers!

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2008 Christmas Tree Setup Timelapse

12.1.2008 — 13 Comments


2008 Christmas Setup Timelapse from navets on Vimeo.

From about 9:30 until 11:30 this morning, the Sheets household was all about Christmas-setup. We unpacked the tree, the decorations, our completely shattered Nativity scene (another casualty of the move, we think), and all the “extras”. Of course I captured the craziness on timelapse to share with you here on stevansheets.com!

Merry Christmas!

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GREAT Thanksgiving!

11.29.2008 — 3 Comments

From 11.27-29.08 – Thanksgiving With Sheets-Grands


We returned home just after Noon today from a couple days at my parents’ home in Middleburg, PA.

We had a blast.

Food, family, and fun. Not necessarily in that order!

The highlights:

  • 4-wheeling up Jack’s Mountain with my Dad.
  • Sharing Thanksgiving dinner with a couple from Mom & Dad’s church.
  • Surfing the web on dial-up to learn how to fold napkins interestingly. (link to the finished product)
  • Sleeping in a basement where the temperature averaged 56-degrees!
  • Finished reading “Do the Right Thing” by Mike Huckabee.
  • Ate a genuine PA Hoagie.
  • Shopped at “Wenger’s Discount Grocery” and left with a cart-full for only $23!
  • Making the trip there in 3 hours and 1-minute.
  • Making the trip home in 2 hours and 58-minutes.
  • Being impressed with Dad’s “homeless” beard!
  • Eating incredible food on Thanksgiving day.
  • Ella being adorable, as usual. (except for maybe the Christmas Cactus incident!)
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    Night of 1,000 Thanks – the video

    11.26.2008 — 5 Comments

    One of my youth sponsors here at Armbrust is an incredible video/graphics designer. He shot some video from our Night of 1,000 Thanks service last week and put together this highlight video from the event. I was blown away.

    Enjoy:



    Night of One Thousand Thanks from Todd Downs on Vimeo.

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    Hell doesn’t worry people.

    11.25.2008 — 4 Comments

    During some quiet time the other morning, I had a thought: “I think I know why ‘hell’ doesn’t worry people.”

    I truly don’t think that the thought of hell is as much a factor in the realm of Christian evangelism as it once was.

    Why?

    Because we continually hear about a not-so-bad hell in our everyday language.

    Think about it…

    Every time you hear the following, think about what it does to your mental-understanding of hell:

    “The Phillies had one hell of a season this year.”
    “I’ve been going through hell-on-earth this month.”
    “That experience was hell for me.”

    Not only is the “worldly”, vulgar neighbor guilty of ‘dumbing-down’ hell, but even the sincere Christian brother or sister that labels their current or former life-experience as “hell” can be guilty of making hell much less the Biblical-example of eternal separation from God and much more a bad-week, a bad-month, or even a POSITIVE adjective for a sports-season.

    Don’t be caught making hell less than what it is for someone who may very well be on the road to that very place. Remember to think before speaking.

    Hell is a real, horrible place ([youversion]Revelation 20:11-15[/youversion]). People are going there everyday. I refuse to be guilty of making that truth less horrifying.

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