This is Jim Denison's daily article for Friday, December 7th, 2018, welcoming William Wells Denison into the world.

William Wells Denison was born yesterday at 10.20 a.m. in Dallas, Texas.

He is the second son of Craig and Rachel, our younger son, and his wife.

Craig is the author of First 15 and Chief Strategy Officer for our ministry.

Janet and I are thrilled for them and our entire family.

Meeting my fourth grandchild yesterday, they'll call him Wells, was a deeply emotional experience for me.

I was filled with gratitude to God for the miracle of his life and so happy for Craig and Rachel.

Janet already has a Christmas stocking with his name

on it hanging by our fireplace. Our family is so blessed and truly grateful. It's been said that

the two most important days of our lives are the day we were born and the day we discover why. I disagree.

The two most important days of our lives are the day we were born and the day we are born

again.

God was Wells' father before Craig was.

The one who, according to Psalm 147-4, determines the number of stars and gives to all of them

their names, knew Wells' name before we did.

As the Lord told Jeremiah and Jeremiah 1-5, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

In John 1014, Jesus said, I am the good shepherd,

I know my own, and my own know me. God made wells for himself. He made him for eternal life

with his father in heaven. He made you and me for the same reason. He is not willing that any should

perish, but that all should come to salvation. See 2. Peter 3.9 and 1 Timothy 24.

George H. W. Bush was eulogized yesterday at his home church, St. Martin's Episcopal

Church in Houston. His body was then taken to College Station, Texas, where it was interred

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