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What's your relationship with adoption? Reader, Over the years, I've had the privilege of seeing several close friends adopt children from near and far. We've welcomed them at the airport as their parents have spanned the globe to go get them and bring them home. And we've rejoiced when phone calls came in from social workers at a hospital nearby. Whatever their circumstances, all of these children were wanted, chosen, and prayed for. You may not have first or second-hand experience with...
Hail to the conquering graduates! Reader, Next week, my daughter graduates from high school. (How can it be?) I wanted to mark this milestone by leaving her and the other 2026 graduates with some timeless wisdom from God's Word. If you've heard teenagers talking lately, you might've thought you were hearing a foreign language. You weren't going crazy. It does sound like a foreign tongue sometimes, and it takes some context clues to figure out what they're saying. What you heard was likely...
This truth changes everything! Reader, This week, I taught at my church's women's Bible Study on 1 John, and we looked at 1 John 4:15. "Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God." The end of that verse reveals an often-overlooked doctrine. Inside those eight words are massive, life-changing, Bible-expanding, worship-producing truths. "God abides in him, and he in God." It just might be the most important doctrine you've never heard of. I hope you'll take...