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Wednesday August 13, 2008

God’s Gift of Adoption
God used our son Daniel’s untreatable illness and untimely death at three years old to send our family on two wonderful adoption journeys. Ten months before Daniel died the Lord brought Isaiah Owen into our family through adoption. A year after Daniel’s death God gave us Noah Daniel (Noah means rest). We named our second adopted son “Noah Daniel” to remind us of the “rest God had given Daniel.”


The Process of the Pardon
Here’s information about the new Voice album, The Process of the Pardon.


Things to Work on
Colin Adams lists a few things he is working on in his preaching ministry.


The Persistence of Moral Sanity
Reflecting on the John Edwards scandal, Dr. Mohler writes about “The Strange Persistence of Moral Sanity.”


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