This Summer the guys and I began working on recording our newest record, “God & Sinner Reconcile.” For the most part it is comprised of songs that we have been singing at my home church, The Journey. We have had such rich times of worship as a church with these songs over the past year, and I am so excited…I can hardly wait to share these songs with you all!

“God & Sinner Reconcile” explores the history of redemption, past, present and future. In His holy, majestic, perfect creativity, God created the world perfect, and in our sin, we traded in truth for a lie and worship His creation over Him. We carelessly broke everything and death came to all. So now all of creation, ourselves included, is crying out for the long-awaited return of our Savior, who will come and make all things new.

These songs continuously call the people of God to repentance and to gaze at the hope that He has made us new and reconciled us to Himself by the blood of His Son, Jesus, and we will ultimately be with our Savior, unstained by the sin of the world.

Here is an unofficial song order:

1. Captivate – Singing of God’s creative genius and our deep desire for Him to restore the wonder of all He has done and in our fellowship with Him.

2. The Wonders of Your Love – Singing of the mystery of His eternal being and the plan of salvation that He had in mind from eternity past, that at infinite cost, He would adopt us into His family.

3. God & Sinner Reconcile - The sacred has covered the defiled and given His own righteousness for ours, to make us right with Him.

4. My God, My Father – A redone hymn from the 1700s simply asking God for His will to be done.

5. More Than Songs – In light of His great love, he has shown us what he desires of us and it is not just singing songs.

6. Oh My Soul – We are so tempted to whore after worthless idols, but He is better than all other gods, which are not gods at all, but will simply wrinkle, stain and fade away.

7. Close to You - A hymn of repentance based on Psalm 51… next to the holiness of God, how can we not see how sinful we are… and next to the grace of God, how can we not repent and be forgiven? He washes us clean… white as snow.

8. Forever You Reign – The Lamb of God who hung the stars, hung on a cross, given for us, but now he is risen, ruling and reigning forever!

9. Come & Heal This World – Asking God to come quickly and make all things new.

10. Redeemed for Your Glory – This song explores the entire work of God’s redemption of us, from start to finish and then exclaims that we can not help but sing His praise.

11. Lord of Creation – The Heavens declare the glory of God and all of creation pleads for His long awaited return.

As of last week, we have finished our homestudy, sent in our dossier and all that crazy stuff, so it’s at this point just waiting. They are telling us that we may be able to pick up Liam Esrael and Jude Surafel by April or May, which would be AWESOME!

We now only have 2 hurdles to jump through – God willing. Hurdle 1 is the $10,000 remaining balance on the country fee to adopt 2 boys. Hurdle 2 is the traveling costs which are approximately $9000.

A lot of people want to do some year end giving around this time because they need some last minute tax write-offs. May I ask you to consider praying about giving to our adoption. International Adoption Guides is a 501(c)(3) that will take your donation toward our adoption and in exchange give you a tax receipt for your records. You could very well give the gift of adoption this Christmas and still get your tax write-off.

Simply make your checks out to International Adoption Guides and put Stephen & Amanda Miller in the subject line and then send it to us at:

Would you join us in praying? Would you consider giving? We appreciate you all and are so thankful that we serve a God who provides for His children.

Grace and peace,
Stephen & Amanda Miller

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Here they are guys!

Our two little boys!

Now you have two faces you can pray for…

Two brothers who are about to change our whole world.

We can’t wait to meet them…