Dr. Mike Wittmer and Scott Anderson on Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: “Reclaiming Adoption won’t guilt you into doing one more thing for Jesus. It merely wants to celebrate the forgotten truth that changes everything: you’re adopted! This book will flood your heart with gratitude, which if you’re not careful, might […]
Russell Moore on Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: “Jesus protects the fatherless and the widow. And Jesus isn’t dead anymore. The Spirit of Christ is afoot in the churches of the Lord Jesus all over the world, pulling us into Jesus’ mission for the orphan, the stranger, the marginalized. This […]
Reclaiming Adoption will be released January 1, 2011. Read an excerpt.
Justin Buzzard of Buzzard Blog, an endorser of Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father, sent me one of his favorite quotations from the book. For all those who have been saved by grace through faith, the truth of this quotation provides grounds for thanksgiving whatever day of the year it is. At […]
Jedd Medefind on our upcoming book, Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: The biblical mandate to care for orphans in distress is unequivocal. But mandate alone cannot serve as the fountainhead of motivation for obedience, especially in a realm of such crushing need and difficulty. Rather, we must be animated by a […]
Tim Chester on our upcoming book, Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: The wonderful good news of our adoption by God is such an important truth for Christians today. Too many of us believe we will be acquitted on the last day, but in the meantime we live as slaves, distanced from […]
From Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: The great Dutch theologian Herman Ridderbos writes that our union with Christ is not a reality that “becomes reality only in certain sublime moments, but rather [is] an abiding reality determinative for the whole of the Christian life.” Do not miss that word, “determinative.” […]
Join us for the Cry of the Fatherless conference this coming January 21-22 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Tim Keller writes: When Paul speaks of the renewed material creation, he says the new heavens and new earth are guaranteed to us because on the cross Jesus restored of our relationship with God as his true sons and daughters. Romans 8:18ff teaches, remarkably, that the redemption of our bodies and of the entire physical […]
Gerrit Dawson on our upcoming book, Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father: “Reclaiming Adoption is the best kind of theological work: it sings and it sends! As I read, I wanted to praise the Triune God for his great love. Then I felt the urgency of the call to live that […]
Cruciform Press recently released Greg Lucas’ powerful little book Wrestling with an Angel: A Story of Love, Disability and the Lessons of Grace. About Greg’s book, Joni Eareckson Tada writes: Witty…stunning…striking…humorous and heartfelt. In our culture which is so quick to devalue life, Wrestling with an Angel provides a fresh, honest look at one father’s […]
It has been my experience that many people do not really begin thinking about Adoption theologically until they themselves are involved in adopting (or at least considering adopting) a child. Very often, the consideration to adopt a child precedes the consideration of the truth that God has graciously adopted us to be His children. We […]
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