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Seeking Things Above

Seeking Things Above

http://www.seekingabove.org/blog/

We are all seeking. We seek success. We seek happiness. We seek fulfillment and meaning in life.
This is a discussion blog. My goal is to write posts about life and issues from a Christian perspective. Comments are encouraged, especially comments that have a different perspective than mine.

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  • Gotcha Day! God’s Grace – No Ordinary Love

    Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 11:05 in view-all-posts

    My blog is going on hold for a while… So here is a parting video that brings the beginning of our adoption story to a close.  Yes, I said the beginning… I’ve learned every day is a new beginning and nothing ever comes to a final cl...

  • Social Justice and God’s Math

    Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 18:30 in God, poverty, hiv, challenge, social justice, view-all-posts

    God’s ways are not our ways and thank God for that.  We look at things with our limited logic and think there is no way that 1 + 1 = 3 (our US government being the exception).  God looks at impossible equations and says, “watch and see my glory...

  • For the Love of the Orphan

    Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 16:30 in adoption, encourage, orphans, god's love, view-all-posts

    Warner Bros. new horror movie Orphan proclaims that it must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your biological children. Let me tell you about how an orphan changed my life… Last year, a 12-year old orphan from Liberia stayed with us ...

  • Court Date – Again!

    Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 20:53 in prayer, adoption, ethiopia, view-all-posts

    Tuesday is our third attempt at adoption court in Ethiopia.  Actually. with the eight hour time difference, our hearing will probably take place sometime while we sleep tomorrow night. Our adoption process has had it’s ups and downs.  During the ...

  • The Shack – William Young

    Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 22:35 in books, god's love, trinity, william young

    The Shack was not on my reading list.  I’d heard about it, some good and some bad.  Most of the bad had to do either with how God was depicted as an African American woman named Papa or how the Trinity was portrayed.  In any case, I had a pile o...

  • Why We’re Not Emergent

    Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 18:00 in books, emergent church, kevin deyoung, ted kluck, view-all-posts

    (by two guys that should be) Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck. I’ve read and posted reviews on a couple of books by what many would call “emergent” church leaders.  You can find reviews for The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren and Velvet El...

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ppbottle

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Great content, love the layout

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