I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog.  Hope you’ll cut me some slack – I’ve been busy marrying an incredible woman and enjoying a week with her on the beach!  Laura and I are back in DC now and so happy to be slowly reentering the “real world” together as husband and wife.

As I was thinking of what to post today, I realized I didn’t need to go beyond the front page of our wedding program.  At the bottom of that panel was a simple verse, “The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.” (Ps. 126:3).  That’s what was in our hearts as we stepped into marriage a little over a week ago and it’s very much carrying me today.  God has been kind and we are filled with joy.

That’s an easy truth to lift up on your wedding day.  Harder on an average Monday that my have followed a mediocre weekend.  But no less true.  Our God is good and has done great things for us.  We don’t have to look any further than the cross of  Christ to know that’s true.  If you can’t find anything else to celebrate today (and I still bet you can!), that’s more than enough to bring joy – the King of all kings has rescued us from ourselves and our fate and called us into His Kingdom.  Amazing.

Laura and I love you guys and can’t wait to walk through the coming years with you.  We’re believing God for much during this summer and on campus this fall.  We’re looking to Him to unleash a movement on the campuses of DC that makes the name of the Son of God famous.  We’re asking Him for it.  And we’re praying for the grace to experience it with all of you.

Thanks for your prayers over the past week.  God has done great things for us.  And we are filled with joy.

Believing For More,

John