The Savior Reveal

Special Installment: Christmas Eve

The revelation of Jesus as Savior is good news because it reveals that we can be reborn to new life as a result of who he is and what he has done.

Having a baby is cause for celebration and, in the days before the ultrasound test, it used to carry with it some element of surprise. Would the baby be a boy or a girl?

These days, however, most people don’t wait until the child enters the world to announce whether it’s a him or her. “Gender reveal” parties are all the rage as people gather family and friends (and social media followers) at a party to show what little bundle of joy they are expecting. Most people agree this began with a simple post on social media in 2008, when a woman named Jenna Karvunidis and her husband cut into a cake revealing pink icing for a girl. She posted about it on her blog, and the idea soon went viral. But since social media makes everything a competition to go a step further, some gender reveal parties have actually gone way off the rails.

Take the case this fall of a gender reveal party in which the family paid for a plane to crop dust a field with 350 gallons of pink water...