Gotcha Day! God’s Grace – No Ordinary Love

My blog is going on hold for a while…
So here is a parting video that brings the beginning of our adoption story to a close.  Yes, I said the beginning… I’ve learned every day is a new beginning and nothing ever comes to a final close.

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Social Justice and God’s Math

God’s ways are not our ways and thank God for that.  We look at things with our limited logic and think there is no way that 1 + 1 = 3 (our US government being the exception).  God looks at impossible equations and says, “watch and see my glory.”
A couple of the best examples of [...]

For the Love of the Orphan

Warner Bros. new horror movie Orphan proclaims that it must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your biological children. Let me tell you about how an orphan changed my life…

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Court Date – Again!

Tuesday is our third attempt at adoption court in Ethiopia.  Actually. with the eight hour time difference, our hearing will probably take place sometime while we sleep tomorrow night.
Our adoption process has had it’s ups and downs.  During the home study and paperwork phase everything went smoothly until it came to getting a background check [...]

The Shack – William Young

The Shack was not on my reading list.  I’d heard about it, some good and some bad.  Most of the bad had to do either with how God was depicted as an African American woman named Papa or how the Trinity was portrayed.  In any case, I had a pile of books on my wish [...]

Why We’re Not Emergent

(by two guys that should be) Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck.
I’ve read and posted reviews on a couple of books by what many would call “emergent” church leaders.  You can find reviews for The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren and Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell on this blog.  Dan Kimball is also mentioned [...]

Gifts worth waiting for

I remember the excitement of finding out my wife was pregnant with each of our first four babies.  Each time there was excitement with an undercurrent of fear – “are we ready for this?” God was always good to quickly answer – “yes, or I would not have blessed you with this new child.”
As the [...]

Scared – by Tom Davis

I’ve read Fields of the Fatherless and Red Letters by Tom Davis.  In both of these books Davis uses his  passion to convict the reader to care for orphans, the poor, the down-trodden, and AIDS victims in Africa.  When I heard he was writing a novel that wove these human sorrows into a story I [...]

The Tau Connection

What a fine looking group of young men…  I lost touch with many of these guys until recently on Facebook.  Now I see random status updates from time to time.  Amazing as it seems, most of us grew up.
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How much do I give?

Each month I receive a variety of solicitations from worthy Christian organizations asking for money.  These organizations are doing great things to help those in need both physically and spiritually.  Right now on my desk I have requests from the following organizations:
ServLife – this organization has a vision to equip 1000 indigenous leaders to share [...]

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