John March

Category: Family

  • Are Chinese Mothers Superior?

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    An article asserting the superiority of Chinese mothers in comparison to their western counterparts has been making the rounds recently.  I’ve had it emailed to me and I’ve seen friends posting it to their facebook walls.  You can read the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” online. The article is written by a Chinese mother…

  • Busy Month

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    This has been a busy month.  Mary and I went to Singapore for a week at the beginning of the month.  I had the privilege of officiating a wedding for two good friends and former members of the Highrock College group.  Ken and Hui were integral parts of our ministry in Boston, and it was great…

  • More Marches!

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    So Mary’s pregnant.  She just returned from the doctor today, and they told her that she will likely deliver early next winter.  She also came home with some ultrasound pictures.  The baby is 3.9 cm long.  You can see his/her little arms and legs and head.  Crazy. Mary and I think we have the most…

  • Happy Families Are all Alike

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    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This, the opening line to Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, is packed full of meaning, and the rest of the book expounds in story form what he means.   We read of one miserable family owing its…

  • Moved.

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    This past weekend was the big move.   We moved three whole blocks, but we might as well have been moving to a different state.  We still had to box everything up, and we hired movers because we’ve got some really heavy items.  In honor of our move, I thought I’d put together a top…

  • An Angry Attitude

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    Two days ago my kids sneaked off with a box of strawberry cake batter mix from our pantry.  They ran to their room and opened it with the intention of eating the mix.  Not surprisingly, when they opened the bag some of the mix began to spill on the floor.  This became a game for…

  • A Theology of House Buying

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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Mary and I have decided to buy a house.  Neither of us have ever bought a house before, and it’s a big decision.  I’ve been struck by how little the church talks about what principles should guide our thinking when we are buying a house.  Where should you live?  How…

  • Happy Birthday to My Wife!

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    Today is my wife’s birthday, so I thought I’d take a moment to honor her here with a list of top ten things I love about Mary: She is a wonderful cook.  There is nothing like one of Mary’s homecooked Korean meals! She is empathetic.  She has a tremendous capacity to feel the pain other…

  • New York

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    Mary and I just got back from New York.  We spent the past three days visiting friends in New Jersey and New York.  Then On Sunday night, I officiated a wedding for a good college friend.  Here are some pictures. The bottom pictures were taken from our hotel room of ground zero.  We were directly…

  • Vacation

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    We just got back from a great vacation down in Sanibel, FL.  My parents spend some time down their every year, and they invited us to join them for a little while.  Mary spent about a week down there, and I was down there for about three days.  Not as long as I would have…