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Spiritual Lessons of Adoption
by Andrew Nagel
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Thirteen months ago, when my wife and I felt called to pursue an international adoption, we expected it to be a rollercoaster filled with paperwork, travel, stress, and excitement. Little did we realize just how much God would use this process to help us understand the gospel in a new way. Indeed, I've come to see adoption as simply the best analogy for our redemption in Jesus Christ-the picture of the gospel par excellence. Read more.
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Changes at PPL
Change comes with new life
by Marie Bowen  Change sometimes disrupts our lives. Even welcome change, like the birth of a baby, can throw our lives into chaos for a time. Surely the lives of those in the path of Hurricane Sandy have been changed in devastating ways. It will take a long time for families displaced from their homes to find 'normal' again.
You may have noticed that PPL did not post a newsletter in October. There is a reason for that. Read more. |
Heart to Heart
Three phone calls that changed my life
by Marie Bowen
August 1988.A report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted a 1983 document, Covenant and Creation, a policy statement of the PCUSA which said that abortion could be morally acceptable in certain circumstances. I read that article and that statement and out of the depths of my being rose the cry, "The Church should not say that!" I was disturbed to the point that I told my children, "Mommy needs to go to her room for a few minutes." I went into my bedroom, closed the door, and fell to my knees saying, "God, you have tied me to a dead body" (meaning the PCUSA which I had joined only a few months earlier) "You have to let me leave this denomination." Read more.
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