My wife doesn’t play the piano! I say that tongue and cheek but I was thinking about that today at church. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church. Commonplace in our regular weekly worship services was a pianist, organist and minister of music. Usually the pianist or organist was the spouse of the pastor. …
Well, it has been exactly 1 month since the ice storm terrorized our community. Like something out of a freaky winter storm natural disaster more widespread than the tornado or the hurricane that blew through last year. This ice crippled our region for over 2 weeks. Schools were cancelled for more than a week and …
I read this in a recent edition of a newsletter I get related to ministry. Feel free to visit the source if you would like to read the entire article at this website, Men Passing the Batton. Post modernism is not something new to anyone who has studied history or philosophical thought. Post modernism is …
Some of my most painful memories from youth came flooding back to me about 5 years ago. I was not involved in therapy or anything like that. By nature I am very melancholic, so it must have been one very lowly day. My parents divorced when I was 12 and I became disconnected from my …
Link: International Adoption :: International Adoption Agency. Adoption is one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted things in parenthood. Bad press, like corrupt social services, media that has the motto “if it bleeds, it leads,” and people that feel like having adopted children is like being a second class citizen. Recently our county, city, and …
What are we doing? What must the kids be thinking? Who are we? All these questions popped into our head as we were preparing to meet our kids when we arrived in Colombia. Just today “SuperMami” (my name for my beautiful wife ‘mami’ is pronounced mommy) told me what “Mowgli” (our name for our oldest …
What sticks out the most in the bible about adoption. Is it the many verses that come to mind about God loving us and accepting us as part of his family, like I’ve talked about before? Is it the idea that you receive all the benefits of heaven despite your sinful nature? I …
“It is the cry of my heart to honor you, it is the cry of my heart worship you…” this contemporary worship song continues on to describe our heart for worshiping God. What exactly is the cry of the orphan? Love, Hope, and Home. My previous job taught me many things about children, …