help bring a child home
by Stephen on Apr.23, 2010, under Adoption, Featured, Stephen's Blog
It has now been a few months since we officially decided and announced our plans for adopting. Amazing how things change over a couple of months. We began researching to find a good adoption agency that could help us adopt from Kazakhstan, and it seems like every agency we spoke with was really encouraging us toward Ethiopia. So we began to pray and look at Ethiopia, and as we did, the facts were astounding! It is one of the oldest countries in the world, being an independent state sin... [read more]
Strange Fire
by Stephen on Apr.14, 2010, under Stephen's Blog
I was reading in Leviticus 10 earlier today and the first words of the chapter just really jumped off the page at me… probably because I’m a worship pastor. Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘A... [read more]
New Article In Lucid Magazine
by Stephen on Mar.31, 2010, under News
This is an article on Biblical Worship I wrote that was recently posted in Lucid Magazine. Read more at www.lucidmagazine.com/Biblical-Worship ____________ Douglas and Marvin awoke today to the frantic shuffling of their mother and aunt dragging their bed across the dirt floor of their 8′X10′ home in the rain forest of El Salvador. As water cascaded across the floor, now mud, they desperately tried to push it out of the house before it washed away the mud walls. This is an every day... [read more]
