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Albert Mohler has become a daily staple in my iPod and for good reason. He has an intelligent take on the day’s news and pay attention to the important topics. Every now and then the conversation gets sufficiently heady for me, but mostly it’s good to hear what average, American Christians are thinking. Someone what distressingly, almost none of those are in Washington State with me

There are a lot of things that start to get me down when I take the wrong perspective on them: the hours I work for the money I make, the time I spend away from my family, my lack of academic and career achievement and the time I’ve wasted in my walk with Christ in this short life. However, on the broadcast from September 14th, I saw that I’m way ahead of the curve on at leas one key issue: marriage. The 2006 Census reports the number of people younger than 30 who are married and have children has plummeted. As Dr. Mohler says, only in times of pestilence, plague, famine or war have the numbers been so abysmal. I feel pretty good about having gotten married at 23 and having two kids by 30. But that wasn’t all.

The subtle hint that the President of Southern Seminary tried to communicate was for young people to consider getting married in the church service on Sunday. I did that! No one else in our experience has had their wedding be part of the worship service in a church. We still spent $3000 on food, flowers and everything else, but that’s way less than the national average of $18,000 per wedding. It was nice to hear that on somethings that really matter, we’ve already begun to build a godly legacy the future generations of our family.