Archive for July, 2008

You Won’t Believe This Big Announcement

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Miranda and I are getting married.

Wednesday, July 23rd.

We are having a small wedding (family only), and a pig pickin’ afterwards (it’s a Eastern NC thing-you might call it a barbeque).  We’ve decided to do it so suddenly for a number of reasons, but primarily because of my mother’s health issues. She may be able to be released from the hospital on Friday (which is a miracle in itself), but who knows if and when the leukemia will attack again. She will also be headed to SC to be with family because they can provide supportive care for her 24-7-365. All that being said, Miranda and I both want to get married with her there, and we both wanted a small wedding anyway, so it made sense. We moved our date up (quite a bit, but still quite doable), and will be married at 6:00pm this coming Wednesday. If you can’t make it to the after-party, still feel free to give us a gift! (Shameless plug alert). We are registered at Target and Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Click on the links to see the list. Of course, we’ll always take cash or gifts!

We love one another very much and look forward to displaying the Gospel through our marriage for the world to see! We love you as well, and can’t wait to see you in person!

Go Lament: It’s Biblical

Monday, July 14th, 2008

19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
20 My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
21 But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”

25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.

 

Jeremiah, in writing this, is lamenting the fall of the great city of Jerusalem, and the tribes of Israel. But the most important thing is that, even in the middle of his lament, he realizes the Gospel: that because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed. It is ok to grieve and mourn. We are affectionate, passionate people with emotions and feelings, because we are made in the image of God. But even in the midst of our most intimate and intense affections, we must keep the first things first: that Jesus is supreme, and worthy of rejoicing in.

Looking

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Seek Logo

Last night, we gathered at the Harmony Church offices for our first monthly prayer meeting, seek. I think it went really well. Prayer is so instrumental to everything we do…because undermining prayer is the sovereignty of God. Ben Tugwell and I actually talked about it this morning at St. Arbuck’s, that in order to pray you first have to believe that God is sovereign enough to accomplish what you ask for….and that He has the right to do it. We prayed for one another in gender-groups, and we had guided alone time with the Trinity as well. I prayed through Psalm 145, and then opened my heart before God. I personally needed that dedicated time. I sometimes have a hard time praying other than “stream of consciousness” prayer, so it was really healthy for me to set time aside. Looking forward to the next one, on August 6th.