November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. A 2002 Russian case study followed approximately 15,000 Russian orphans who left institutional orphanages …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #9
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. You may not be called to adoption, but you are called to pray. This month, I’ll share ten ways you can pray for the world’s orphans. The journal Addiction published a systematic review of 50 studies on street kids conducted in …
Ten Ways to Pray for Orphans – #10
November is National Adoption Month. I obviously believe in adoption. But each year only 250,000 of the world’s orphans are adopted. That’s less than 1%. It is estimated there are between 143 and 210 million orphans worldwide. That’s half the size of the US. If all orphans formed their own country, it would be among the 10 largest nations in …
Superfrauds
I don’t like blueberry muffins. Which is too bad, because they’re everywhere. Get a muffin basket? About half of then will be blueberry. Continental breakfast? They will be there, shoving their way to the front of the line.I don’t like blueberries to begin with. The texture is weird, and I don’t think they have a whole lot of flavor. Not …
Deep Calling Deep Releases Saturday!
Book 3 in The Psalm Series is almost here! Deep Calling Deep will be available September 1 in paperback and ebook, on all major retailer sites, for only 99¢ for the first week, September 1-7. To celebrate, both Prize of War and The Walls of Arad will be 99¢ each from September 1 through September 5. The audiobook version will be …
Meet Sextus
The hero of Deep Calling Deep is Sextus Afranius Burrus. Sextus was a real person, born around born AD 1 in Vasio, Gallia Narbonensis (now southern France). By all accounts, Sextus was an honorable man. In 51 AD, Nero’s mother Agrippina, then married to Claudius, chose him to be the sole Praetorian Prefect, going against the tradition of having two people fill the most important …
Two Are Better than One
Many try to make something of the fact that when Paul refers to the couple he usually places her name first—unusual for the time. We’d be better off noting that they are never mentioned separately.
Take Up Your Cross
We meet the hero of Deep Calling Deep, the historical figure Praetorian Prefect Sextus Burrus, as he is questioning the brutality of Rome. Crucifixion was used throughout Rome’s history as more than a form of execution. It was torture, plain and simple. There are a plethora of places to read about the specifics of this particularly horrible death. Suffice it …
Book 2 of the Psalm Series is Here!
Book #2 of the Psalm Series releases Wednesday! By the Waters of Babylon is written by Mesu Andrews, the award-winning author of Isaiah’s Daughter, Love In A Broken Vessel. The novella uses Psalm 137 as its foundation for the story, pulling supplemental plot from passages in 2 Kings 24-25, 2 Chronicles 36, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Proverbs. It’s the tale of the …
A Funny Thing Happened …
You find the strangest things while researching. I swear I am only trying to find out if they have peaches in the summer or some such innocuous question, but I end up on these sites that proclaim the most ridiculous theories. The Greenland Theory I ran across this mind-bending bit of illogic the other day. It’s the brainchild of David Chase Taylor, …