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This past week I was reminded of my dorm days in college. The seminary has commuter rooms you can stay in for $15 bucks a night. A great deal considering gas prices have skyrocketed of late. I was thinking I was going to have my own little room with a tiny bed, but no. It was more like this…
There are10 cubicals in the room, and the down side about cubicals is if you have someone who snores (which we did), he will keep you up all night. I was up working on class work one night when this guys starts sawing logs over in his cube (slang for snoring, he wasn’t actually sawing logs) and I thought I would record his snoring for ya’ll to hear.
This week I (cody) am in Fort Worth taking a week long class. These classes are an excellent way to knock out 3 hours of credit (Monday – Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM), but they are wearisome. The class I’m taking this week is The Christian Home.
Here are a few good quotes (and bold suggestions) from one of my books I’m reading for class Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas…
What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?
Something to ask your spouse: “Where do you see unholiness in my life? I want to know about it. I want to change it.”
Instead of placing demands on your spouse, look to God to have your needs met.
So often Jesus left the crowd to minister to the individual, while we rationalize leaving the individual-particularly our spouse-to curry favor with the crowd.
It is far less of a leap for a man to love a woman or for a woman to love a man than it is for either of us to love God.
For the guys: “A wife who plans an unforgettable sexual experience for her husband is serving God.”
I highly recommend Sacred Marriage anyone who is married or about to be married. It has helped open my eyes to new ways to identify and repent of sin in my life.
Well, it’s no mystery what Amy and I are going to name our daughter: Sage Elizabeth Dixon.
We absolutely LOVE the name, but many people have asked us how we came about it so I thought I’d share.
It is not because we have a desire to name our daughter after the spice (please don’t ask us that any more). The name Sage came from a sermon we heard from John Piper. Once that sermon was over Amy asked me, “What do you think of Sage as our first girl name?” And I responded, “I love it!” And that is how the name came about. Here is a little info about the sermon. I greatly encourage you to listen to it.
Sermon info:
Text: Romans 1:18…
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness”
Understanding sin and wrath will make you wiser.
Profound understanding of sin and wrath will make you a far wiser person about human nature – your own and others. And if you are wiser about the nature of the human soul, you will be able to fight your own sin more successfully, and you will be able to bless others more deeply with your insight and counsel. I have pled with women and men in this church in recent months that what we need to nurture and cultivate here at Bethlehem over the next decades is sages -men and women who ripen with years into deeply sagacious people: wise, discerning, penetrating, deep lovers of people and deep knowers of human nature and God’s nature, who can see deeply into the tangle of sin and sacredness that perplexes the saints and threatens to undo us. If you run away from the study of sinful human nature – if you say, I don’t like to think about sin – then you run away from yourself, and you run away from wisdom, and, worst of all, you run away from the deepest kinds of love.” – John Piper
Listen to free! (Thanks DG)
Also, Amy came across these verses to guide us in our prayers for Sage.
Ephesians 1:16-17
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,”
Join with us in prayer for Sage!
So, we had another sonogram last Tuesday and here are a couple of the pics! The first one is her face, the sonogram tech kept saying what chubby cheeks she has. the second one is a too cute profile pic! It is amazing to see how much she has grown in such a short amount of time!
At this sonogram I was almost 29 weeks and she was three pounds already! Seems big to me. The sono tech said that she was in the 60th percentile of weight. I saw my doctor yesterday and she said that if Sage keeps growing at the rate that she is, that she would be at least 8 pounds when she is born! I know That is not too huge, but yikes, what if she just stays in there too long and gets up to 9 1/2 pounds like I was when I was born…
Here are some pics of what my super creative mom and I did on Baby Fun Day last week:
I can’t wait for Sage to get here!
