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Sunday Reflections

God looked on Christ as if Christ had been sin; not as if He had taken up the sins of His people, or as if they were laid on Him, though that were true, but as if He Himself had positively been that noxious-that God-hating-that soul-damning thing, called sin. When the Judge of all the earth said, 'Where is sin?' Christ presented himself. What a grim picture that is, to conceive of sin gathered up into one mass-murder, lust and stealing, and adultery. And the Father looked on Christ as if He were that mass of sin. He was not sin, but the Father looked on upon Him as made sin for us. Christ stands in our place, assumes our guilt, takes on our iniquity and God treats Him as if He had been sin. How can any punishment fall on that man who ceases to possess sin, because his sin was cast upon Christ and Christ has suffered in his place? Oh, glorious triumph of faith to be able to say, whenever I feel the guilt of sin, whenever conscience pricks me, 'Yes, it is true but my Lord is answerable for it all, for He has taken it all upon Himself and suffered in my place.'

--Charles Spurgeon, The King's Highway God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Family Fun on Friday

The ski season officially started this Friday for our family. There are now three Steiger kiddos on the hill so you better watch out. This year we knew we had to move onto bigger mountains since the boys have been skiing for a long time and are bored on small hills.

So that is what we did and we took Emma with us. She might as well ski on a big hill.

Nate had a blast skiing with daddy.

Well and Emma spent most of the time with me. Yep that is right I am back on skis and of all people I was the one who ended up teaching Emma.I know she is with daddy here but how else I was going to take pictures.

We have a great friend who watched Jo all day for us so I could keep an eye on Emma.

Nate showing how he felt after a whole day of skiing. They started at 10am and we left at 5pm.

Emma did a fantastic job and she was not giving up. We took little breaks in between but other than that we were on the hill most of the time.

Wondering where is Sam? So were we. We did not see him most of the day. He had lunch with us but other then that our skiing was too boring for him. He had skiing buddies so we knew he was not alone. You go Sam.

Sunday Reflections

God looked on Christ as if Christ had been sin; not as if He had taken up the sins of His people, or as if they were laid on Him, though that were true, but as if He Himself had positively been that noxious-that God-hating-that soul-damning thing, called sin. When the Judge of all the earth said, 'Where is Sin?' Christ presented himself. What a grim picture that is, to conceive of sin gathered up into one mass-murder, lust and stealing, and adultery. And the Father looked on Christ as if He were that mass of sin. He was not sin, but the Father looked on upon Him as made sin for us. Christ stands in our place, assumes our guilt, takes on our iniquity and God treats Him as if He had been sin. How can any punishment fall on that man who ceases to possess sin, because his sin was cast upon Christ and Christ has suffered in his place? Oh, glorious triumph of faith to be able to say, whenever I feel the guilt of sin, whenever conscience pricks me, 'Yes, it is true but my Lord is answerable for it all, for He has taken it all upon Himself and suffered in my place.’
--Charles Spurgeon, The King's Highway

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Let it SNOW !!!

We got some more snow over night and it has been snowing all day long (there is more coming). The girls were BIG helpers helping daddy to clean our driveway.

I think they can start a business.

And after a hard morning of work it was time for some sledding in the backyard.

Swingset comes in handy even in the winter.

Nice rosy cheeks.

Time for some hot cocoa.

First day of the Year 2010

Did you all have a nice New Year Celebration? Our family spent it together relaxing and watching 'The Three Stooges Marathon', building a puzzle, eating BBQ jalapeno poppers .... . Our family has been hit by strep hard so we are trying to stay home and not spread our germs around.

The boys made it to midnight on New Years Eve (Nate fell asleep 3 minutes before midnight so we had to wake him up).

Today we enjoyed some snow outside and believe it or not there is more coming in the next few days. The boys built a snowman afew days back and they did a great job.

Emma is checking if the carrot nose is real or not.

We got a wagon from uncle Vittee for Christmas and we took it for a test run around the neighborhood.

The girls got a kick out of it. They were giggling the whole way.

Jo dressing up the snowman. Thank you all for the Christmas cards. I am always looking forward to all of them and updating my refrigerator collection.

By the way all of my pictures will have 'OnlyForTheSteigerClanWebsite' sign from now on. All pictures on this blog are property of the Steiger family and if you are interested in any of them shoot me an email.

(This is because I found some of my pictures on other peoples websites and blogs I do not even know.)