Dixon Family Blog

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.

Snoring!

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.