Week 9: The New Testament and Adoption Day 5: The Process and Price of Adoption – (Ephesians 1:3-14) I love the book of Ephesians. If you could get a peek at my Bible, you might think that a pink ink pen had blown up all over the first half of the book. It used to …
NT 9:4 Adoption And The Law
Week 9: The New Testament and Adoption Day 4: Adoption and the Law – (Romans 10:14; Galatians 4:1-10) Over the years, I have come in contact with several children who made very puzzling decisions. They had, up to that point, been brought up either on the streets or in very bad home environments. Suddenly, they …
NT 9:3 Adoption and Israel
Week 9: The New Testament and Adoption Day 3: Adoption and Israel – Romans 9 “Can you imagine a woman giving birth to a child and then casting it out into the field to wallow in the afterbirth, unbathed, uncared for, naked and exposed to the elements? Can you imagine a child in such a …
NT 9:2 The Waiting of Adoption
Week 9: The New Testament and Adoption Day 2: The Waiting of Adoption – Romans 8:22-25; 35-39 I am not an adoptive parent, though there have been many occasions on which I wished I could be. But I have watched others go through the process. It can take months, even years. And all the while, …
The Unexpected
Sometimes the unexpected happens. Just when you think you know where you’re going, God switches on the turn signal. At the start of this year, the Lord opened the door to begin preparing materials for a Bible Institute course on reaching the Fatherless. Much of what you have seen in the “What the Bible Says …
NT 9:1 The Benefits of Belonging
Week 9: The New Testament and Adoption Day 1: The Benefits of Belonging – Romans 8:16-18 Have you ever felt like you just didn’t belong? When I first went to Russia, I had many of those moments. I would suddenly find myself in a room full of people having an animated conversation and all I …
NT 8:5 No Longer Slaves
Week 8: The New Testament and Adoption Day 5: No Longer Slaves – Romans 8:15 I don’t know her name, but I remember her face. She was about fifteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. Thin. Dirty. Her clothes were in obvious need of laundering and repair. Her hair hung in greasy strings about her face. We …
NT 8:4 The Spirit of Adoption
Week 8: The New Testament and Adoption Day 4: Spirit of Adoption – Romans 8:14-16 During the years that I lived in Russia, it seemed with every spring came Victory Day and with every fall came some very unwelcomed terrorist attack: Subway bombings, bus bombings, apartment building bombings, a theater siege, a school siege. Events …
NT 8:3 When God Spanks Us, Part 2
Week 8: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 3: When God Spanks Us, Part 2, Hebrews 12:5-11 “Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few …
NT 8:2 When God Spanks Us, Part 1
Week 8: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 2: When God Spanks Us, Part 1 of 2 – Hebrews 12:5-11 I like my middle name. It’s part of me. It was chosen carefully to reflect God’s work in our family. I wouldn’t change it – but there have been plenty of times when I …
