Category: Family
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Daddy’s Little Princess
Read More: Daddy’s Little PrincessI think Keziah’s smile brings me so much joy because I love seeing her enjoy life and respond to my talking and smiling. Her smile is also just like her Mommy’s smile. Thank you Jesus for such an unexpected joy and blessing in our lives.
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Any De-Clutter Advice?
Read More: Any De-Clutter Advice?I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about simplicity and the elimination of clutter recently – maybe because the holidays and having a new child are two events that somehow create a mass of “stuff” around the house – and we just had both events happen in our lives recently. The holidays and our new…
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Transformers Have Always Been Cool
Read More: Transformers Have Always Been CoolAt least since the mid-80’s. I’m the one on the right. My sister Rachael in the middle and my cousin on the left. We were so proud of our little Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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Who Does She Look Like?
Read More: Who Does She Look Like?When Kezzie was born, one of my first reactions was “who’s child is this?” in regards to her looks. She was and is beautiful. And so is my wife Sarah. But I was having a hard time finding a likeness to Sarah or myself. So you get to weigh in. Who does Kezzie look like,…
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Teaching Kids Godly Character at Home
Read More: Teaching Kids Godly Character at HomeHere is a great real-life example of a family in our church who is living out Deuteronomy 6:7 in their home (“Impress them [God’s commands] on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”). Click on the…
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4 Benefits to Being a One Car Family
Read More: 4 Benefits to Being a One Car FamilyI once read a book about living happily without a car. But Sarah and I like having at least one around. We own a 2001 Toyota Corolla with 176,000 miles on it. Sarah brought it into the marriage fully paid for and it currently shows no signs of dying soon. We change the oil and…
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Keziah Grace Joyner
Read More: Keziah Grace JoynerWelcome Keziah Grace Joyner, 7 pounds, 1 ounce, September 30th, 2010 at 6:50am. Mom and baby are safe and healthy.
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Waiting
Read More: WaitingNo baby yet – but taking guesses on the name; your only clue is that it is an uncommon female’s name in the Old Testament – I can neither confirm nor deny any guesses – but I might consider a prize if someone gets it – one submission per person 🙂
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Thoughts from a First-Time Dad-To-Be
Read More: Thoughts from a First-Time Dad-To-BeMy beautiful wife Sarah is due with our first child next month (3rd week of September). We tried, waited, and prayed for 4 and a half years to have a child before we got pregnant. We experienced the pains of infertility, such as seeing so many happy families with children all around us, some of…
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My Consumeristic Baby
Read More: My Consumeristic BabyMy unborn child currently owns about 3 times as many garments of clothing as I do. And we have not even paid a penny for any of them. Welcome to the world of receiving baby hand-me-downs.
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A Date With My Mother-In-Law
Read More: A Date With My Mother-In-LawI love my mother-in-law. Sometimes I actually feel like I get along better with her than my own wife does. Today, my wife spent the day with a friend and I was left to chill with Carolyn. We went up to Barr Lake State Park just northeast of Denver in hopes of catching some good…
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Christmas with Carolyn
Read More: Christmas with CarolynSarah’s Mom, Carolyn, visited us all the way from Denver, CO. We had a great time walking the streets of Richmond, VA and taking a few pictures along the way. Sarah and I have lived here for 2 years and pass some of these tourist sites all the time. It takes an out of town…
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“Holy Fools”: Exploring the Journey of Calling for Christian Variety Performers
I am happy to announce that my PhD dissertation has been published to ProQuest, an academic database for published research. I have made the dissertation open source, which means anyone anywhere can access the full content free of charge. Here is the full dissertation: https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/holy-fools-exploring-journey-calling-christian/docview/2622316783/se-2 Please share far and wide. I am very much excited…
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The Easiest Large Group Game Ever
This is probably the easiest large group game ever invented. If you can think of an easier one, please let me know in the comments. Heads or Tails! This game of heads or tails involves EVERYONE in your large group. It is actually better the larger the group gets. There is an elimination factor to…
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Merry Christmas from the Joyners!
Greetings from our family in Richmond, Virginia! We are thankful for you, our friends and family. We are also thankful to the Lord for His gift of the love to us all this season. This past year has been a roller coaster of experiences and emotions, specifically regarding our spunky little Annie, who is now…
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Book Release! Incredibly Bad Dad Jokes
I have been writing down my original Dad jokes for several years now, but recently they dramatically increased. While the past five months of my life have been the toughest for me as a Dad (with Annie’s medical crisis), the Dad jokes actually came out in full force during this season. You see, in my…
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A Children’s Ministry Poem
From the mouths of children come questions galore about heaven and angels and Satan and more. They speak what their hearts say without holding back, so the wonder of God is something they never lack. Oh God, who are you? Who inspires the minds of little ones many, so that they may find this Jesus…