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In the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, here are my "Top Ten" reasons for me to be thankful: 1) Salvation & Grace of God - While we were/are yet sinners 2) The Bible - How eagerly I would want it if I couldn't have it 3) My wife Lina - The love of my life 4) My family - Odd as it is 5) My Church - Wheatland PCA 6) Pastor Bruce and his wife Carol 7) Books - My friends when I was lonely 8) My Job - The kids at Northeastern HS are the best 9) Doctoral Work at Temple University 10)Yuengling Lager - Hmmm. 2nd time I mentioned this in my blog, maybe I have a problem. As we become more grateful, we become less prideful.

I usually come dressed to church like a slacker. Blue jean pants, sport shirt (if that). I think it honors the Sabbath. Dressing up in a suit and tie starts to look like work. Then, it becomes "Works Salvation." Blue jeans equals Grace. Come as you are, as you were, like Nirvana sang. One Sunday, though, after being pseudo-chastised by "No great formal dresser on Sunday" Tom Becker, I decided the following Sunday to wear my best suit--the one that my wife Lina hand-picked for me for our West Coast reception of our wedding (a lot of her family couldn't make it back East for the first wedding reception following our ceremony so we had an almost entirely Taiwanese function out in California--family and food). Well, I pulled a good joke on old Tom the following Sunday at church who immediately got the attire response gag and cackled like a crow (it was pretty obvious as I never dress up). But, alas, the joke was on me. As long as a dressed like a slacker, I was unde