Finances and Adoption: A Practical Testimony (click here for my personal testimony)
One of the most common things I hear from people thinking about adoption, desiring to adopt, or in the process of adoption is how much adoption costs. For many that is the major deterrent in deciding whether to pursue it or not.
The reality is [...]
pilgrim in progress
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Monthly Archives March 2007
Perspectives of an Adoptive Father | Part 4
The Satelite Office
The other day I spent the afternoon at Starbucks sitting in one of their comfy chairs listening to Norah Jones doing some work for one of my classes when two business men came in and set up shop on either side of me. One didn’t stop talking on the phone for two hours straight making [...]
Addiction on HBO
Though definitely not from a Biblical perspective this 14-part documentary still looks very interesting. Check out the website for more info.
Three
Three issues I wish I had more time to think about:
War
Global warming
What kind of casual-dress shoes to buy next.
Reconciliation Blog
Ed Gilbreath, author of Reconciliation Blues (see my post the other day for a link to a sample chapter) has a blog that will devote itself to racial reconciliation.
Apologetics to the Glory of God
I just finished a class on apologetics at RTS this week and I feel like it has been one of the most helpful classes I have taken in the last eleven years of undergraduate and graduate work. I have explained to friends that it has been one of those experiences where I have felt my [...]
Reconciliation Blues & More at CT
Read ‘Exit Interviews: Why blacks are leaving evangelical ministries’ from Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath. Very powerful.
Other Christianity Today articles on race and reconciliation include:
Behold, the Global Church| It’s time we figured out how to talk—and listen—to one another. (November 17, 2006)
Catching Up with a Dream| Evangelicals [...]
Perspectives of an Adoptive Father | Part 3
Finances and Adoption: A Personal Testimony
This post is on the subject of finances and for many fathers this is the part that hits the closest to home. For it is the fathers, rightly so, who are usually the primary breadwinners, and in this case, the primary financial means for the adoption. This can be a [...]
