36 Years of Grace

pop and mopsie in the park This Sunday evening (January 3) I will be continuing in our exposition of the Psalms. It is more than fitting that I will be expounding (explaining and applying) Psalm 128, a psalm about family blessings. Most appropriate since on Monday (January 4) Sandy and I will celebrate our 36^th anniversary.

We were married on a bitterly cold night (in 1980) at the Trinity Baptist Church in Yukon, Oklahoma. My two memories of the wedding are the pastor’s bullhide cowboy boots and the hideous, blue shag carpet in the sanctuary.

When we wed we were unconverted and clueless. When we took the vows, “For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health”, we did not have any idea what each of these entailed.

Sandy followed me to college, then to graduate school.

Together, we’ve moved from Oklahoma to Tennessee to Oklahoma to Missouri to South Carolina to Oklahoma to Nevada and back to South Carolina

During these treks we have lived in 19 different apartments or homes.

Along the way we have buried parents and a daughter.

Now, 4 children later, 3 In-law kids later, 3 Grandkids and another one on the way, our testimony is that “God has been gracious”.

First, in exercising saving grace. The Lord mercifully gave us the gifts of saving faith and repentance early in our marriage. Then, the Lord has patiently been pouring out sanctifying grace and sustaining grace and persevering grace. We’ve watched God give generational and covenant grace, by showing kindness to our children and grandchildren.

And we’ve deserved none of this – but God, because of His great mercy, has continued to shower us with blessings.

36 years of God’s undeserved favor…..together.

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Carl Robbins

Carl is a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a graduate of Crichton College and Covenant Theological Seminary. Pastor Robbins has served churches in South Carolina, Oklahoma and Nevada. In addition Carl has served on the board of crisis pregnancy centers, Christian schools and seminaries. He has spoken to college groups, medical school forums, state legislative groups, seminary chapels and church conferences. His special passion is training pastors in developing countries. Carl and wife Sandy have been married for 37 years(!) and are the parents of three believing, adult children: John and his wife DeAnna and their children (Bray, Emmie Ruth, and Maggie Grace), James and his wife Megen and their children (Jack and Lainey Janice), and Sarah and her husband Andrew Holmes. Carl and Sandy love OU football, big dogs, good Mexican food, and the beach—any beach, any time.

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