I am proud to announce the newest member of the Jernigan family: Madsen Jeter! He was born at 5:27pm on Thursday, May 6th. He weighed in at 7 pounds and 13 ounces (for comparison, Gavin was 9 lbs 8 oz!) It’s been a bit of a roller coaster experience. We were scheduled to go in at 5am in the morning, then they called us last night and told us that we wouldn’t be in till more like 5pm in the…

Let’s play the “add your own caption” game. I’ve done this before and was quite impressed with your creativity. Here is a recent picture of Gavin from my sister’s wedding. This is probably one of my all-time favorite pictures of him (and there are many in his short life already). I invite you to leave your own caption to it in a comment to this post.

Today marks the 4th anniversary to my amazing bride Michelle. It has already been an incredible adventure and I’m excited to see what the future holds for us. In addition to being my number one person for sermon feedback (a never ending assignment, trust me), Michelle also has incredible faith (and will listen to my craziest of ideas with a straight face), incredible integrity, and endless amounts of love and humor. She makes my life an absolute joy to live….

I spent some time praying at the Gilbert campus tonight for this year’s 24/7 prayer event at Central. It was a great time and very spiritually refreshing. In one station, people could write thoughts onto a white board. I took a picture of one comment that stood out to me. As I sat and stared at these three sentences, I suddenly remembered two years ago when I was doing the same exact thing. I was at a 24/7 prayer station,…

Many of you have heard by now, at least if you were at Third Format last week, but I want to officially announce that Michelle is pregnant again! We are super excited about this and we both feel extremely blessed that God has given us a second child. We have a hunch that this might be a little girl, but we won’t know for sure till Christmas time. Our new little bundle of joy is expected to burst onto the…