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 Posted at 8:56AM, Sep 2nd 2010 by Holt Intl.
Finding families for Waiting Children in Ethiopia
By Ashli Keyser, managing editor
*Genet slowly makes her way out of the playroom at Holt’s Durame Intake Center, briefly holding onto the doorframe to get her balance. A dozen of her friends have already made it a few times around the merry-go-round. Undeterred, 3-year-old Genet, her legs stiff...
Posted at 1:00AM, Sep 2nd 2010
I'm honored to be one of the Friday seminar speakers for this year's Desiring God National Conference, which has the theme "Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God." After I speak on Friday, October 1 about "Difficult Truths & Deep Love: Pondering Sovereignty, Suffering, and the Promise of Heaven," Nanci and I will be...
Posted at 10:30AM, Aug 31st 2010 by Holt Intl.
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Considering International Adoption?
Get the information you need from the convenience and privacy of your home… log on to a Holt adoption webinar. Several times each month Holt International hosts a live online webinar where one of our adoption workers walks you through the process, answering your questions with...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 31st 2010
The video in this blog, "How Should Christian Couples Approach Family Planning?" is part 5 of my interview with Mark Driscoll. (Watch all the interview videos.) You might like to check out my book I referenced in the video, Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?, which is also available for free as...
Posted at 5:04PM, Aug 30th 2010 by Brian Eno
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Tagline: Navigating the Post-Apocalyptic Myspace
I know myspace is a joke now, so I won’t spend a lot of time on this. Though not too long ago myspace was scorching HOT! I remember the day I created my brand new myspace url: “myspace.com/middleschoolpastor.” It was a name I...
Posted at 3:58PM, Aug 30th 2010 by Holt Intl.
A mother’s hearing loss, five years prior, leads to the adoption of a hearing impaired son from India
By Ellen Singh
Praise God from whom all blessings flow! And what a blessing Deelip is to us!
My husband, Dave, and I already had two biological daughters, Katelyn and Anna, and one son, Michael, who we adopted from India. Our life was full with...
Posted at 9:12AM, Aug 30th 2010 by Multnomah University
Welcome back, students! It’s nice to have the vibrancy and energy back on campus that you always bring with you. Go check out what we’ve done with your coffee shop. It’s cool, but it doesn’t have a name yet.
Now, For Your First Assignment!
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Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 30th 2010
Here are the three randomly drawn winners from The Goodness of God giveaway on Randy’s blog. What a blessing to read all of your comments and see the Scripture that has encouraged and helped you during difficult times. There is nothing like God's Word! The three randomly drawn winners of the giveaway are:1) Michael (email...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 28th 2010
As you may know by now, Nanci and I love dogs. They are God’s creation, and many of us enjoy them and other pets. Nanci looks regularly at the website Dog of the Day and often emails me a link to the day’s dog. This one, about the dog named Friday, made us smile. The following is the August 27 entry. If you’re a dog lover, the...
Posted at 10:43AM, Aug 27th 2010 by Brian Eno
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Last week we finished our final Kids Camp for the summer. This concluded six Next Generation Camps for 2010. Here are a few things some of our campers said about Kids Camps: One wrote, “It was my first time at camp and I loved it” A...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 26th 2010
In the last blog post, I shared the story of the civil lawsuit that caused me to resign as a pastor and begin Eternal Perspective Ministries.I had written about God's ownership in my book Money, Possessions and Eternity, which came out in 1989, only months before I became involved in civil disobedience. Little did I know while writing that I would...
Posted at 6:29PM, Aug 25th 2010 by Multnomah University
Fall 2010 is here (even though it still feels like summer!). Students will be on campus for orientation and move in days the rest of this week. Undergrad Bible College students have orientation beginning on 8/26; Seminary on 8/27; and non-seminary Master’s Programs already had theirs.
MU Student Orientation Information
A Prayer Request...
Posted at 10:18PM, Aug 23rd 2010 by Tom Krattenmaker
By Tom Krattenmaker
USA Today, August 23, 2010
When Tyler Wigg-Stevenson contemplates the times ahead — something this young Baptist preacher and Swarthmore College graduate tends to do a lot — he sees two futures. In one, the world has rid itself of nuclear weapons. In the other, the world has been destroyed [...]
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 23rd 2010
This month marks the 20th anniversary for Eternal Perspective Ministries, the nonprofit ministry I founded in 1990. Some of you who read my blog might not know much about EPM, so thought I’d share in two blog posts about the abortion clinic lawsuits that led to my resignation as a pastor and to the beginning of EPM.
When I came to Christ as...
Posted at 11:52PM, Aug 22nd 2010 by Paul Coughlin
Girls learn cattiness from sitting at the knee of the Nice Girl culture, in and outside of church.
Posted at 8:16PM, Aug 19th 2010 by Dan Merchant
A couple of years back I met a terrific writer, a nice, if occasionally cranky, person named Becky Garrison. Becky is an accomplished author of such books as Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church and The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail. She is also a contributing editor for Sojourners and has done funny, insightful stuff for The...
Posted at 10:42AM, Aug 19th 2010 by Holt Intl.
The value of foster care in China
Foster families provide a loving home environment that even the most caring orphanage workers cannot provide. Their selfless love nurtures homeless children while Holt completes the adoption processing for permanent families. Holt’s dedicated temporary families are often the only hope for infants suffering from...
Posted at 10:42AM, Aug 19th 2010 by Holt Intl.
Holt’s Family Preservation program in Ethiopia
“The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”–Matthew 7:25
By Ashli Keyser, managing editor
In the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses a parable to speak about faith...
Posted at 10:41AM, Aug 19th 2010 by Holt Intl.
A mother’s perspective
When my nine-year-old declared there was “no way” he would go to Holt Adoptee camp for a whole week, I was disappointed. I was sure it would be a good experience, but he didn’t want to sleep away from home. I considered the usual parental options: persuasion, bribery and coercion! Fortunately, I soon discovered...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 19th 2010
From Stephanie Anderson, promotions director at EPM
Looking for a book study this fall? Then I’d encourage you to check out our newly released If God Is Good Study Guide. It would be a great study for your church or small group, or even if you as an individual would like to delve deeper into the subject of evil and suffering. This...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 18th 2010
Recently one of our EPM staff members fowarded me this question from her husband: Will there be sci-fi super nerds in Heaven? And will we all get together and build the Enterprise?
Over the years I have been asked many profound questions about Heaven.
This is not one of them.
However, as someone who eagerly watched the premiere of the original...
Posted at 4:45PM, Aug 17th 2010 by Holt Intl.
The deadline to submit a graduate photo for the fall issue of Holt International magazine is September 1st. If you are a Holt adoptee and graduated from high school, college or vocational school in 2010, fill out a graduate form and submit your photo, here.
Short stories (250-700 words) from graduating adoptees, or their parents, are also welcome!...
Posted at 9:47AM, Aug 16th 2010 by Rick Johnson
Every year, our Better Dads ministry hosts an annual Single Mom’s Family Camp. We bring about 25 single mothers and their children to a free, three-day camp. During the camp our male volunteers play with the children during the day while myself and other speakers provide education, insight, and spiritual development during classes for the moms....
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 16th 2010
Following is part three of my video interview with Pastor Mark Driscoll at The Resurgence, as well as an edited transcript. (See all the parts of this interview at http://theresurgence.com/series/randy-alcorn-interview.) This video is titled, “Are Young Pro-life evangelicals inconsistent in how they approach the issue of...
Posted at 6:12AM, Aug 14th 2010 by Rick Johnson
I was recently asked to speak at a large men’s conference. Besides speaking from the main stage I was scheduled to give two breakout sessions as well. One of the breakout sessions was on the topic of my newest book, Becoming Your Spouse’s Better Half. Upon arriving at the venue I looked at the participant guide and discovered that the event...
Posted at 1:00AM, Aug 13th 2010
In my last blog, I wrote about one of my three pilgrimages to Oxford. (I also shared that I'll be attending and speaking at the C.S. Lewis Foundation's 2010 Southwest Regional Retreat & Writer's Workshop, October 28-31. See the PDF download for more information.) Each visit I’ve pondered what Lewis wrote: “You must...
Posted at 3:07PM, Aug 12th 2010 by George Fox University
Admission is free to both games and ceremony to honor those who helped make first phase of the Austin Sports Complex a reality
NEWBERG, Ore. – After years of planning and fundraising, George Fox University will unveil its new NCAA Soccer Field, part of the planned new Austin Sports Complex, with a pair of intercollegiate soccer games on...
Posted at 11:56AM, Aug 12th 2010 by Brian Eno
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Tagline: Nicaragua Report
Matthew 25:34-36, “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a...
Posted at 11:42AM, Aug 12th 2010 by Holt Intl.
by Robin Munro, senior writer
Meihekou, China – At the end of a winding dirt road in Meihekou – a city in Northern China’s Jilin Province – behind a green door decorated in red for luck, a teenage girl spends her days engaged in the usual teenage activities. She text messages her friends on her cell phone. Chats online. Listens to music....
Posted at 12:38PM, Aug 11th 2010 by Multnomah University
When you think about the “big names” in Christian music history, who comes to mind? Petra? The 77’s? Maybe you go back to Larry Norman, Keith Green or Steve Taylor, or more recent groups like DC Talk or Jars of Clay. Perhaps you think of Christian faith-influenced albums by artists like Bob Dylan or U2.
Whatever comes to mind,...
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