Follow The Numbers to Another Miracle Story...

Posted over the past 48 hours on Facebook and Twitter:

• 11
• 11.25
• 2+
• o+0<
• 14
• 7.02
• 123<365
• 5/3
• 2
• 3
• 5589

So, here we go:

After 11 years, Janelle found herself struggling to keep up with us on vacation, constantly getting car sick, and craving pickles.  The day after Thanksgiving (11.25) Janelle bought a couple of sticks at a Pharmacy, and used them.  They both came up postitive (2+).

That's right. JANELLE LYNN PRENKERT IS PREGNANT (or if I were to put it into an emoticon o+0<).  14 weeks pregnant to be exact.  We are looking at a due date of July 2nd (7.2).

It took a while to settle in.  The Ultrasound we saw at the doctor helped confirm the reality that we are moving from 1 child to 3 in less than a year (123<365); that next Summer this household will have 3 children under age 5 (5/3).

Yet, these 2 parents are absolutely blown away by the 3 miracle stories that God is granting us the privilege of calling our children.

Isaiah 55:8,9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Posted so far:

• 11.25
• 2+
• o+0<
• 14
• 7.02
• 123<365
• 5/3
• 2
• 3
• 5589

The code revealed here at www.derryprenkert.com 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 28.

Mery Christmas!

From David Crowder Band and 4,000 Youth Workers with camera phones.

The Hobbit

Oh. My.
Thank you for the Christmas present Peter Jackson.
Now all I have to do is wait for a year.

Passage - Life Verse #3

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 

Philippians 3:7-11

Moving students from Religion to Relationship to Spiritually Reproducing... it's why NMC Student Ministries exists.  Everything we do keeps this goal in mind.  Moving past a stale, rules-driven, empty label of Christianity and into a relationship with the Almighty Creator of the Universe is at the core of my personal story.

There's plenty of things we can pursue with our lives.  There's plenty of people to meet.  There's plenty of knowledge to be gained.  There's plenty of goals we can have.  Yet, whenever I read Paul's words in this passage, something rises up inside of me and says, "YES! That's where I want to live."

Paul's words are chucked full of relationship language.  I wish I could say I'm there all the time... where everything else is "rubbish" in comparison to knowing Christ, but I'm not.  That's why I love the next three verses of this passage:

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. 

Philippians 3:12-14