Category: At Home
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Life not Longevity
I don’t know about you, but have you ever noticed that when a couple has a wedding anniversary, the first question we ask them is how long they have been married? And then, if they happen to tell us some relatively large number, 15, 20, 50 years, we applaud them for simply making it that long? Not that…
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5 Things I Hope My Daughter Learns From Me
There are a plethora of sappy daddy/daughter posts out there. But I don’t care, here’s another one. I am about to have a daughter. Literally any day now she could come and bless our home with her presence. So, obviously, I have had to do quite a lot of thinking about raising a child in…
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Driver Seat…
I haven’t written anything in a while. In fact, it has been almost 2 months and there is a reason for that. Honestly, a few different reasons. Some pathetic ones, like laziness, time management, and drive – I have started a few blogs, but end up not finishing them. But really the over arching reason,…
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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Season’s Greetings
Why do I celebrate Christmas? Is it for the turkey? The stuffing? The family? The gifts? Although they are all great parts of the celebration the big answer for me is Jesus. I am a Christian, and do believe that because of the great and awesome love of God, Jesus became incarnate and subjected himself…
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5 Ways I Failed in My First Year of Marriage, So You Don’t Have To
One of the things in my life that I am most passionate about is marriage. As a Pastor, I want to help people better their marriages and as husband, I want to have the best marriage! I have been married to Emily since May 2013 and although our circumstances aren’t necessarily typical (getting married and simultaneously taking…
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4 F’s for Singles
Over the last few months I have had a great amount of conversations with some pretty good friends, who happen to be single, about relationships, finding ‘that’ person, etc. During one of those conversations recently, I began asking myself, if I were to do it all over again, in some crazy depressing world where my…
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5 Pieces of Advice From a Young Pastor to Those About to be One…
It was only 15 months ago that I first became a Lead Pastor. I was 22, just over a month away from being 23. I was fresh out of university, primed and ready to take over the world for Jesus. My heart had the best intentions, though quite honestly lacked almost everything else necessary for…
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