Mark your calendar for July 29 if you live near Columbus, Ga. I will be preaching at Edgewood Assembly of God that night.
This is part of the great Thomas family roadtrip Summer 2009.
I preached at Edgewood 2 years ago and had a great time.
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The last two days were pr
etty good ones as far as parenting goes.
Yesterday, I went to Isaac’s awards ceremony where he made the Principal’s honor roll.
This is where he has been posted all year.
We are so proud how Isaac has become so creative this year.
Then today, I went to watch Anastasia get her award for Principal’s honor roll.
Anastasia taught herself to read a couple years ago and she helped teach other kids to read this year.
Then she was given the math award for being one of two top math students in her class.
Besides being the cutest kids in the world they are bright as well. I could not be happier with them.
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By the time you read this I will be somewhere in the Carribean on the Carnival Imagination.
My wife and I have not had a vacation since our honeymoon nine years ago. We can’t really afford this vacation but we fell like God is telling us to invest in our marriage and time alone is definately part of that.
So, like a good son, I am obeying my father and taking a cruise.
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February 19 2000 I married my bride.
I am a fortunate man. Today my marriage is better than it ever has. Our love is more passionate than ever. We understand each other better than ever. We communicate better than ever. We are more in love than ever.
I feel like we are just beginning in what God has called us to do as a couple.
For years I had a ministry and Tracey took care of the house.
Today I do most of the ministering and Trace primarily takes care of the house. But we both minster more than ever, and we both take care of the house more than ever.
For those who have heard otherwise, let me tell you that marriages can get better and better.
As we enter year 10 of our covenant I can’t wait to see what God is going to do.
I love you Tracey! Cant wait to see what God does in and through us.
7 CommentsSanta Clause will not be bringing any gifts to our children this year. This will be no surprise to our children because he never came in the past either.
If you take a look though our family photo albums you will see lots of toys every year and plenty of pictures of happy kids opening them. So if Santa did not bring them who did?
Their parents did. That’s who.
I understand why other parents choose a different route. They remember praying to some man in the North Pole who built toys with his physically-challenged, indentured servants. They remember how the kids learned to put their hope in and give all glory to that same figure around the holidays.
We decided that we were not going to do that and here is why.
I know Spirit-filled families who do other things. More power to ya.
But if our kids tell your kids that you are lieing to them, don’t be mad at me. We told the truth.
Be the first to comment!As a family we don’t celebrate any of the Jewish feasts or anything like that. Though I must admit I did have an amazing prayer time on the Day of Atonement this past year. Thankfully my sins have been atoned once and for all.
However, I have always had an affection for Chaunukah. There are several variations of
the story of the festival but most believe that after the Maccabees reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem they removed the greek pagan idols and sought to relight the Temple’s menorah. They could only find one vat of non-defiled oil, enough for one day. They lit the lamp and the one days supply of oil lasted the eight days it took to make more oil.
So on Chaunakuh, people light a progressive number of candles to remember how God made the oil last an extra week.
Now, we don’t get all religious about it. Tracey has had this menorah since before we were married and this is the first year we lit it. And if you can’t notice, we could not find candles to fit so we had to use what we had.
Jesus said that we are not to be found without oil when He returns. I feel that the church needs more oil and I am not talking about the greasy hair kind. The church needs a fresh outpouring of the Holy Oil that comes from the Holy Ghost.
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I am a little different than the average guy, though most of you knew that.
Besides the fact that I don’t like strawberrys and will not eat anything that has touched a mushroom, I have a specific taste in Christmas trees.
Some people like all white lights. Some people like colored lights. Some people want them to stay on. Some people like them to blink.
I like every light you can find.
To me, it is not possible to put too many lights on a tree. I took this pic this morning with no other lights on in the house. When this thing is plugged in, we don’t need any other lights.
If you are like me and you don’t think a couple thousand lights are too many on an 8 foot tree I am here to tell you you are not alone.
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It is not hard for me to come up with things to be thankful for. This picture sums it up for me.
Because Jesus saved me I can have the life I have here and on the other side of eternity. When I got saved I had no idea there were benefits in this life. But I have received them and am thankful.
For posterity sake I will list that I am thankful for:
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