What It’s Really Like Adopting Teens from Foster Care … By Tricia Goyer As of today we’ve had our new girls in our home for twenty days. twenty glorious, noisy, dramatic, wonderful days. As parents for 26 years, John and I are used to noise, to mess, and to drama, but adopting teens from foster care […]
encouraging words
Collective Sundays 9/12/11 – 9/18/11

God Don’t Make Junk by Christi Stapleton “I know I’m special, cause God don’t make no junk!” I remember hearing this phrase as a child and thinking about how reassuring it was. It still is, but I also started thinking about it in a different light recently. No, God doesn’t make junk. That part is […]
Patience
by Latasha Ransome The anxiety that we go through, while expecting the promised manifestations of God’s in our lives, can leave us in a state of utter frustrations. We go through this experience because, when we believe God for something, we lack the patience to wait for the manifestations of the fulfiment of […]
God Don’t Make Junk

“I know I’m special, cause God don’t make no junk!”
I remember hearing this phrase as a child and thinking about how reassuring it was. It still is, but I also started thinking about it in a different light recently.
No, God doesn’t make junk. That part is always true!
But what do we do with what God has made? Are we using it for God’s glory, or are we making it junk ourselves?
Collective Sundays 9/05/11 – 9/11/11
Vindicate Me O God By Erik Retallick Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people,from the deceitful and unjust mandeliver me! Psalm 43:1-5 A short while ago I wrote an article about Psalm 42 and mentioned that Psalm 43 follows on very closely with its thoughts and tone. […]