Aug 13, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Robed in the Righteousness of Christ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.Ephesians 6:13 I was proud of my nephew David when he went overseas to...
Aug 6, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 Our adopted Ukrainian children had to learn a new culture, a whole new way of life. On the way back from Ukraine, as they experienced...
Jul 30, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 In 2002, God brought three of our children, Stephen, Elizabeth, and Peter, into our family through...
Jul 23, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Jesus said, “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35 The day our adopted children arrived at their new home in...
Jul 16, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“…I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.”John 14:3 A story is told of a missionary who returned from Africa to the USA in the early nineteen hundreds after a lifetime career in missions. When he arrived in New York City, he...
Jul 9, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“…I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.”John 14:3 In February 2002, with the Ukrainian government’s approval, Susan and I went to Ukraine to adopt our three youngest children. Based on what we were told, we expected to be in...
Jul 2, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“…think of what you were when you were called…” I have learned things through adoption that I thought I had known most of my life. I had given assent to many spiritual truths, but God has brought it all home to me in a whole new way. Now I know that I didn’t really...
Jun 25, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Naming is an exercise in dominion. If you go all the way back to Genesis, you will find that Adam was given dominion over all the animals, and the first thing he did as a manifestation of his authority was to name those animals. Whatever Adam called one of them, the...
Jun 11, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” Galatians 4:6 Before we had adopted three of our children, I had already titled one of my books on prayer, “Calling Him Daddy.” The title speaks of God’s desire for...
May 28, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Him we were also chosen…in conformity with the purpose of His will…” Have you seen the movie “Dennis the Menace?” That was my youngest boy when he arrived from Ukraine: blond-haired, blue-eyed and full of energy. When I walked down the street...
May 21, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Him we were also chosen…in conformity with the purpose of His will…” When God told us to adopt three children from Ukraine, we had never seen a photograph of them, we had never met them. Though we had been to Ukraine, we had never been to the...
May 14, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
“in Christ before the creation of the world…” In February 2002, Susan and I went to Ukraine in the former Soviet Union to adopt three siblings from an orphanage. For almost a year we were in the process of adopting our Ukrainian children. Obviously, we believed...
May 7, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all...
Apr 30, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all...
Apr 23, 2025 | Weekly Devotional
How Can We Say, “Thank You”? After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled...
