Month: May 2013
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Nope I’m not Brad Pitt: The Pitfalls of False Expectations
Proverbs 10:28 The expectation of the just is joy… It goes back to 2003 when my wife and I led a trip to the Dominican Republic to work in an orphanage. (Side Note: Missions trips are great for couples!) I preached in the evenings in different churches. After one service, I was approached by a woman.…
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Needed Time: A time starved marriage
**From the get go, all of the credit for this blog goes to Anne. Thanks babe for your help!! Yesterday we celebrated 15 years of marriage. Your anniversary is a time of reflection. We spent the evening eating and shopping and reminiscing over the past decade and a half. There’s no way Anne and I…
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My Loser Marriage
It’s not a mystery of my competitiveness. It seems to come out in a lot of things. I can’t say that I’m a sore loser, but of course that’s coming from me. I play to have fun…aaaaand I think it’s fun to win. Now understand, I don’t even need competition to be competitive with. Golf for…
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The Myth of Compatibility
Men and women are different. (Now that I’ve completely blown you away with that ground-breaking truth, I’ll continue.) What I’ve discovered, and continue to discover in my own marriage, is how different we continue to be. It seemed like during the whole courtship/dating process, we were so much more “compatible”. The word “compatible” means, “Able…
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The Comparison Conundrum
My kids have been into riddles lately. The bonus for me: I’ve heard all of the ones they’ve been telling me and it’s sent them on a journey to find a riddle that, one I haven’t heard, and two a riddle that would stump me. Cammi and Ethan are trying to find the right “conundrum.”…
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