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The Meaning of Marriage

May 18, 2012 in Family, Reading with 2 Comments

My Life Group recently went through Tim Keller’s book The Meaning of Marriage. The subtitle— “Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God” —really does sum it up well. Keller takes a look at the foundation of marriage and debunks much of the romantic and faulty ideas that our culture has readily adopted. At first, some of his ideas seem almost unromantic due to their focus on commitment. Yet it is this focus that makes this book so counter-intuitive and profound.

Here are some of my favorite passages that illustrate this:

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Adelyn Thoughts (Now At Home)

January 22, 2012 in Family with 7 Comments

On Friday I posted about the birth of our third child and since then I’ve had some time to reflect on our new reality. I realized that Michelle and I look at little Adelyn totally differently. For Michelle, she sees an adorable little baby girl who can wear bows and headbands of all sorts of creativity. For me, I see a little girl that will wrap my emotions around her finger, argue with me when she’s a teenager, and cause me all sorts of stress as she begins to date and then I eventually have to give her away to another man (who may not even be alive yet).

Different—to say the least. It’s kind of like this:

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Adelyn Ruth Jernigan

January 20, 2012 in Family with 21 Comments

I normally post parenting/family stuff over at my blog for dads, but I hope you’ll indulge me this time.

Michelle and I are proud to announce the arrival of our third child! Little Adelyn was born this morning at 6:24am and weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces. She has been totally chill. Adelyn and Michelle are doing terrifically.

Here are a few photos:

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4th Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

October 28, 2011 in Community, Family with 2 Comments

Our life group from Central hosted our 4th annual pumpkin carving party to connect with new people. We invite our neighbors, friends, and coworkers, with the entire goal to hang out so we can create and build new friendships. It was great to see a bunch of new people and some repeaters from the last few years as well!

Here are some of the photos of the night:

Gavin was interested in carving his own pumpkin--for about 5 minutes.

Pumpkins make people do crazy things...

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Survivor – Backyard Edition

June 29, 2011 in Family with 5 Comments

I remember our Sunday evening conversation vividly.

“What do we have going on this week?”

“Monday night… plans; Tuesday night… plans; but Wednesday night we don’t have anything.”

It didn’t turn out that way.

My sister came over Wednesday evening and we kicked it off right: pizza and swimming. Gavin was loving the pool and finally Michelle went inside and laid Madsen down for the night around 7pm. We started drying off and getting ready to come in and put Gavin to bed around 7:30pm when I tried to open our sliding glass door only to find that it was locked. Somehow it had clasped shut.

Since we were swimming, our phones and keys were all inside. Panic time.

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