i really enjoy Eugene Cho. He is someone i 'follow' on the Twitterer and generally i find that i resonate deeply with what he says. He tends not to get caught up with the mud-and-opinion slinging that so many other Christian personalities seem to and i appreciate his humility, openness and humour in trying to be an honest and real follower of Jesus... he is not perfect and i imagine would be the first to [...]
My Wife’s name is Vicky and My name is Bradley. We have been married for 6 years. The first couple of years of marriage were fairly easy. We got married and two weeks later had to relocate for work. So it was just us which in the beginning was good, after a few years we added kids and then really started to miss our family and the “extra hands” they would be able [...]
don't explode, little brain just hang in there keep ticking away or pumping on or whatever it is you do i believe in you i know that you can do this you will survive this meeting shall not take you down so just push on and keep your cool and slowly bring that pressure back down easy does it i got your back on this one let me talk you down from the ledge step [...]
The first time I found out that one of my close friends was getting married, I cried. A lot. Like if I found out she was going to die. I was only about 13 or 14 years old, but I felt that I was losing my friend forever. As I got older, I realised that it doesn’t have to be this way – I now see it as an opportunity to gain a friend, in [...]
Hilton and I got married on the 7th of July 2007. And yes! That would be 07/07/07 :-) We have the privilege and honour of raising two incredible children. Annabelle Joy is 3 and a half, and little man Isaac Levi (Zaccy) is just 18 months old. Hilton “courted me” for about 6 weeks before we officially started dating, and 5 days later he told me that he loved me. I nearly fell off the [...]
Philip and I were married on 2nd April 2011, a glorious day and a fabulous celebration of the beginning of our life together. God brought us together, He had confirmed to each of us that He wanted us together, and He keeps us together. In our first year of marriage, as a newly-wed farmer's wife, I got to experience in a really practical way what it means to be his 'helper'. There've been countless times [...]
I read somewhere the other day that marriage is easy when you’re married to your soul mate/best friend – THEY LIED! 5 years in and it does get easier but it still takes a lot of work. Andrew and I got married on the 3rd of January 2009 and there are still times when I get completely frustrated and I know he does too. But that’s ok! The longer I have been married, the more [...]
Alex and I have been married for 5 years. 29 November 2008 seems like a lifetime ago. Since we got married we’ve studied further, travelled the world, moved house and started a company together- all activities that are guaranteed to bring you closer together. Sometimes I struggle to remember what it was like before we met – now 12 years ago. It feels as though this has been my life forever. This past weekend we [...]
When I first agreed to write something for this topic for Brett, I honestly had no idea what I wanted to tell my “married” friends as a “single” person. Sometimes I feel so frustrated with the labels we place on each other and use to define where we think someone should be at in their life Journey. Don’t get me wrong, after a lifetime of “single” (I’m 42, never been married and don’t have kids) [...]
I married my lovely photographer wife Sam on the 28th of January 2012, on a beautifully sunny day under some trees in Port Elizabeth. We’d led our church’s youth group together but had never been interested in each other romantically, and it felt like God just opened our eyes at the right time. There’s honestly so much to say about marriage – so many lessons, metaphors, parallels. One thing I know, though, and it applies [...]