“I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience is in order…. when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy is in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction — to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.” – Martin Luther. “It is our solemn conviction that where there can be no real spiritual communion there should be no pretense of fellowship. Fellowship with known… Read more More GREAT QUOTES -Mostly Sermonindex →
Everywhere we go, we attract attention. Maybe it’s because there are so many of us (17 when we are all together). Maybe it’s because there are so many races represented in our family. Maybe it’s unusual to see so many boys with hand differences or a family with two children who use wheelchairs. Maybe it’s just the fact that we travel everywhere in a big ol’ rattling shuttle bus! The staring used to bother me. Now I see it as an opportunity. I smile nod, and will usually attempt to… Read more ‘Always room for more’: Adopting 15 children has made life one giant adventure →
By Jocelyn Neo April 6, 2021 The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea has willfully walled itself into isolation, making it difficult for other free societies to know what is happening inside the secretive state sitting on the east coast of communist China. It is often through defectors that the world gets glimpses inside a country ruled by a totalitarian regime, including the harrowing accounts of its citizens and people of faith being persecuted. The Central Committee [of the Korean Workers’ Party] says that Christianity is like opium or drugs and has… Read more The ‘most dangerous country’ to be a Christian: North Korea and its war on faith →
Former pro-NFL player Phillip Adams suspected of carrying out a mass shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina, that killed five. Victims named as Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70; wife Barbara, 69; grandchildren Noah,5, and Adah, 8; James Lewis, 38, who worked at Lesslies’ property, was also killed. The sixth person, Lewis’ co-worker, was shot multiple times but survived Adams took his own life after midnight with a .45 caliber gun. Adams’ parents live next to the Lesslie family, and Dr. Lesslie used to be the football player’s physician. Adams suffered multiple… Read more ‘Football messed him up’: Dad of ex-NFL player Phillip Adams who killed doctor, his wife and two grandchildren before turning gun on himself insists his son was a ‘good kid’ as it’s revealed the 32-year-old suffered at least two concussions as a cornerback →
In Jeremiah 32, we find the prophet Jeremiah imprisoned by Zedekiah, King of Judah, for speaking the word of the Lord to him concerning the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem and the impending captivity of the Israelites. At this point in time, the Babylonians have closed in on the city of Jerusalem and in a short while will take control of it and burn it down. Jeremiah, however, in his imprisonment receives a word from the Lord that he is about to be approached by his uncle Hanamel with an invitation… Read more A Word of the Lord in the Time of Captivity →
