Seven Surprises of the First Christmas

Ten years ago today was the birth of our first daughter. We talk about her being our Advent baby, with the name Gloria. We thought November 21 wasn’t too early to start looking ahead to Advent and Christmas. I know we are a week from Thanksgiving, but would it be okay if I talked about…

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Praise God for Boring Days: What Agony Has Taught Me

“Praise God for boring days.” These are the words that my wife, Abigail, wrote to people who were praying for our one-year-old son, Calvin, as he lay hooked to an ECMO machine in Johannesburg, South Africa. ECMO stands for “extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.” It is essentially a life-support system that replaces a patient’s heart and lungs…

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