Today we met for lunch with ministry pioneers, Dave & Laura Gschwend at Palappas Restaurant in Seascape.

Dave & Laura lead Gathering by the Bay, a house church movement.  Laura is a breast cancer survivor (clean for 5 years) and continues to reach out to many in her capacity as a mentor-teacher within the University of California system.

We had a GREAT time together; before we departed Dave & Laura prayed with Irene and for her physical healing.

Thanks for caring.

Dave

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8 a.m.

Thanks for checking in.

We finally got the telephone call late Friday afternoon from the nurse liaison at UCSF regarding the most recent blood test results.

Here’s the quick story…

The lab did not test for amyloid.

We did not press them for an answer but either the amyloid test wasn’t originally ordered with the blood panel or the lab simply didn’t complete the ordered amyloid test.  Either way, it wasn’t done and it’s now been re-ordered.

So, on Monday, December 22, when we return to UCSF to meet with the nephrology team to consult about the prospects of a kidney transplant, Irene will be tested for the amyloid level.

One note of encouragement is that the balance of Irene’s blood panel looked good.  All results were within acceptable norms.

Irene’s nausea RAGED last night causing her gross discomfort.  She’s resting now and we hope the nausea will subside as the day wears on…

Thanks for caring.
Dave

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As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
John 9:1-3

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14

On December 8th, I shared an update with some very powerful verses related to the matter of generational sin and its consequences.

Now, as Paul Harvey would say, here is the “rest of the story” ….

The thread of continuity throughout scripture speaks emphatically that Jesus the Son of God, bore ALL of our sins on the cross.

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

Why did Jesus become sin ….?

The answer is so that we would become the righteousness of God in Christ.

Now, follow this logic and series of verses ….

Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”  A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.  When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”  With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
John 19:28-30

It is prophesied that Jesus would drink vinegar or sour wine:

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalm 69:21

What is the significance of the sour wine?  Why is this detail given in all four gospel accounts?  The detail is there to show us that because of Jesus’ redemptive work on the cross, no more shall our sons pay for the sins of their fathers.

In those days people will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth

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