Editor’s Note: In honor of National Adoption Month, we are featuring stories from some of our adoptive families. If you’d like to learn more about the ways you can Be a Family to a child, please visit www.beafamily.org.
Several years ago, I felt led to participate in a FamilyLife-sponsored mission trip to Guatemala where I visited orphanages [...]
Note: This devotional is taken from the It’s Your Mission trip blog. It was a Sept. 13 blog entry from a team that distributed shoes to children in Honduras.
Today was definitely a first for me; and I think it’s safe to say it was for most everyone here. Today, we met the children at a [...]
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
I Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)
What is your “it” that is causing you to feel that you can’t go another step, yard, mile, second, minute or hour in life?
What is [...]
Several years ago, I was asked to speak at a national adoption conference on a topic of my own choosing. I could tell that the conference organizer was somewhat taken aback when I announced that I would like to speak on forgiveness.
What does forgiveness have to do with adoption? A lot, actually.
I know this from [...]
God’s word says that “faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). In the verses following that one, the acts of several Old Testament saints are highlighted in a kind of faith ‘hall of fame.’Â
Nestled in verse six the writer of Hebrews tells us, [...]
