Tag: Marriage & Family
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Atheism Doesn’t Do Much for Beauty, Art, and Love
If there is no God, and everything in this world is the product of (as Bertrand Russell famously put it) “an accidental collocation of atoms,” then there is no actual purpose for which we were made–we are accidents. If we are the product of accidental natural forces, then what we call “beauty” is nothing but a…
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StartMarriageRight.com
Most couples spend months–or even more than a year–planning for their wedding day. Though it’s not proven through sociological research, I believe girls start sampling center pieces when they are 11. What happens after the big day? A couple will spend the rest of their life together. At least that is the hope. Does anyone plan for that? …
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Saturday Morning Potpourri
Do you ever feel like you get so busy in life that you only work in your life and not on your life? In other words, how much time do you spend intentionally thinking about actions that need to be taken and then actually do them? Most of us, and I have felt this of…
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Happy Anniversary to My Wife
On January 16, Carly and I celebrated our first anniversary as a married couple. We spent the weekend in Kansas City. We probably could have done the same things in Omaha that we did in KC, but it was much more fun to drive for three hours together, get away from our “world,” and relax…
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2010 in Review
Goodbye 2010. Hello 2011. In 2010, I adjusted to life in America after coming home from Africa in late 2009. The year started out pretty good for me: I got married to my best friend Carly on January 16. Over the next 12 months, I worked three different jobs. My wife and I lived in three…
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Now for the couple that has it all…
My good friend Vern sent me an article from the Omaha World Herald that ran yesterday morning. The article is about divorce insurance that’s going up for sale in Dayton, Ohio. Here’s a depressing snippet: WedLock policyholders buy units of coverage. Each unit costs $15.99 per month and provides a cash payoff of $1,250 if…
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Happy Birthday to My Wife
Today is my wife’s 24th birthday. I love you Carly! If the Lord wills, I will spend many, many more birthdays with you, and that, my love, is very thrilling to me. (Speaking of my wife, she just posted an incredible talk on her blog called “Life’s Too Short to Just Admire.” She gave the…
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The Cockiness of Conservatives
I have been looking for a way to express this for some time now. Thanks, again, to John Piper, for his articulate, weighty, passionate, biblical explanation. The quote below comes from a sermon in 2004 called “Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage.” Piper’s words are targeted at the conservative Evangelical movement. He…
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The Next Chapter
Another chapter in life is approaching, Lord willing. Carly and I have started to raise financial support to work as a pastoral intern at our church, Brookside Church, here in Omaha. I’ll be filling you in on more details in the coming days, but in the meantime, please stop by my intern page here on…
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Do your words give life or bring death?
Paul David Tripp has said, “You have never spoken a neutral word in your life. Your words have the power of life and death in them.” This morning, Proverbs 12:18, made that come to life for me: There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.…
JAMES PRUCH 