"Adoration bursts out in song and feast. Incarnations. We might say, then, that Christian culture is the Gospel in bodily form. It is what happens when we live the Gospel." - Douglas Wilson, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
Over the years, the Van Voorst family has steadily advanced in this by inches, but recently, it seems, we've leapt ahead by miles. God has been moving us more intentionally in this direction through liturgical calendars, feast days, assiduity, legacy-mindedness (legacity), generationality, postmillennialism, culture creation and building, Chestertonian Calvinism, story club, hygge, candles, "blood on three!," re:treat, popcorn parties, family movie nights, Sabbaths, family lunches at Shelter Gardens, Friday Family Feast night, Friday night pizza night, Friday night movie night with Paige, "Friday" by Rebecca Black, Operation: Keep the Party Alive, Saturday Dadurday, breakast burritos, coffee & Cash, army ants on a log, Saturday Family Adventure night, "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, Sunday Funday, Sabbath Siblings Sunday lunch devotional, family naps, etc.... I love being a Van Voorst. I love being a Christian in God's economy, a citizen in His family, the head of the family He's given me and the life I get to live in light of His provision.
Ephesians 3:14-21
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
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