‘Do Hard Things and People Will Follow’

At Boundless: The Line, Motte Brown tells how two families at his church – the Schwabs and the Thompsons – helped inspire him and his wife to adopt:

“There’s really nothing extraordinary about their circumstances that uniquely qualifies them to adopt so many while already having so many. They’re not rich and I don’t believe they received a special call from the Lord. I suspect that, mainly, they were just willing.”

See the Browns’ blog, which discusses their recent adoption of four Ethiopian children.

John Saddington is in Korea

John Saddington is in Korea, meeting his biological mother for the first time. Read the background here. He has updates on his blog, Human3rror.

Weekend Walkabout: December 6, 2008

26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):

• Afterlife in the Old Testament: The Scholarly Consensus? - Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
• Bible Memorization Worksheet 2009 - Triablogue
• Converging the Web and Desktop - ChurchCrunch
• Different Isn’t Wrong … - Justin Wise
• Encouragement for Trans-Racial Adoption Anxiety - Vitamin Z
• Fox News Conservative? - Russell Moore
• Grand Duke Henri’s Last Stand - Rod Dreher
• Hate Your Enemy? - Greg Gilbert, Church Matters
• Innocent Suffering - DesiringGod blog
• J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales for Wizards (and Muggles) - Sherry Huang, Idol Chatter
• Korea - 1 Day Left - Let’s Start Right - Human3rror
• Lay Worship - The Sacred Sandwich
• My Two Cents #123 - Osama Bin Lego and other Islamic fare - Daniel G. two or three
• No Food, Drink or Levity Allowed in the Sanctuary - Motte Brown, Boundless
• Our Problem with the Old Testament - Justin Taylor
• Pithy Pre-pastorate Pastoral Pointers - Dan Phillips
• Quantum of Follies - Dayo Olopade, Culture11
• Russian Patriarch Dies - Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today liveblog
• Short Saturdays - Who needs our money? - Stuff Christians Like
• Things we should be doing - Amy Scott
• Ultimate 80’s Medley - Denny Burk
• Video of My Sermon on the Bible - Adrian Warnock
• Wanted: Kindness - Carla Rolfe
• 20 EXcellent Free Rich-Text Editors - Webdesigner Depot
• Yes, the terrorists targeted Jews - Daniel Pulliam, GetReligion
• Zacharius Ursinus - Theopedia article (Z’s are always hard to find … but it will be worth your while to learn something about Ursinus, a contemporary of Martin Luther)

Adopting HIV-positive children

A video about families that have adopted children with HIV–and how you can do the same (HT: Zach Nielsen >> ABBA Fund blog).

Together for Adoption Conference audio

Jason Kovacs and Maridel Sandberg - “Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ Vision for Orphan Ministry“

Dan Cruver - “Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption“

Rick Phillips - “The Good News of Adoption“

Carl Robbins - “Adoption and the Multi-Ethnic Family of God“

Tullian Tchividjian - “Our Adoption and Visiting Orphans in Their Affliction“

Links at Jason Kovacs’ blog.

“Help Me Meet My Mother”

John Lee Saddington, author of the Human3rror blog, shares the story of his life as an adopted child, and asks for prayer and funds for a trip to Korea he will be taking to meet his biological mother, for the first time:

“Through no action on my part … I’ve been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a ‘all expenses paid’ trip back to Korea to visit her.  The OKF (Overseas Koreans Foundation) with G.O.A.L. (Global Oversees Adoptees’ Link) has chosen my brother and I to be a part of a group that will have the chance to meet their birth mothers.  44 fellow adoptees will join us on this trek around the globe, affectionately called ‘The First Trip Home.’”

Weekend Walkabout: Nov. 8, 2008

26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):

• Amway Evangelism
  
• Billy Clubs, Firehoses, and Attack Dogs for the New Civil Rights Movement
• C’mon Obama Voter, You Have To Admit This is Pretty Funny
• Dominican Republic - Ordinary Superheroes
• Errr…
• Fear Not!
• “Gross Food Related Youth Group Games” (Stuff Christians Like)
• “How Not to Raise a Pagan”
• I’m Saved! But From What? - Part 3
• James White - Debates in London
• King David’s Water Tunnel in Jerusalem
• Law and Gospel: Galatians - The practice of Christian liberty
• Missing your calling
• Nate Huss recognizes National Adoption Month with new song, video
• Obama and the Bishops
• Passion For The City
• Quote of the day
• Real Life Photoshop
• Still having a dream
• Two songs
• Urban Exile: Re-discovering Justice?
• Voting for our imaginations
• What Churches Can Learn from Election Marketing
• X-ray Crab (OK, not from a Christian blog, but it does start with an ‘X’!)
• You’re a Hyper-Calvinist
• ‘Zack and Miri’ Advertising Leaves Out the P-Word