https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzj2JnRhHq8 Compilation of images and verse from my recent visit to Ivanovo, Russia. If your church or organization would like to learn more about the work of Orphan's Tree in Russia, please visit the Speaking page for contact information.
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How will we react to SCOTUS today?
Note: within about 30 minutes of when I originally posted this article this morning, the US Supreme Court announced its rulings to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and to refuse to hear the Proposition 8 case from California. Sometime today the US Supreme Court is expected to rule on a pair of cases … Continue reading How will we react to SCOTUS today?
From Russia With Love Part 4: Lasting Impressions
Even though I’ve only scratched the surface of my experiences during my recent visit to Russia on behalf of Orphan’s Tree, I feel like it’s about time to wrap up my “From Russia with Love” series today with a few of the lasting impressions that have forever altered my perspective. It sounds almost trite to … Continue reading From Russia With Love Part 4: Lasting Impressions
From Russia With Love Part 2: Love Wins (with a little help from a hockey fan)
It’s now just a little over 36 hours since I arrived home from an amazing adventure to spend some time and hopefully leak a little bit of Jesus into the lives of a group of teenage orphans in the city of Ivanovo in north-central Russia. Even now it’s difficult to articulate the experience of being … Continue reading From Russia With Love Part 2: Love Wins (with a little help from a hockey fan)
Why supporting gay rights is the most Christian thing I can do
There’s a story in the Bible where Jesus talks about a field where a man planted a crop of wheat. While he was sleeping, an enemy snuck into the field and planted weeds. The wheat and the weeds grew together, intermingled. The man’s servants offered to pick through the field and remove all the weeds. … Continue reading Why supporting gay rights is the most Christian thing I can do