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...
