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15 ~ Wrapping it up
As I type this chapter, I am sitting in Uganda, East Africa. Some colleagues and I are waiting for our shuttle to take us to the airport,...
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Apr 12, 202220 min read
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14 ~ Surgery
Grab your copy of Sovereign and Gentle here We left our hotel that morning, and we were happy. We were at peace. The Lord was doing...
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Apr 5, 20227 min read
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13 ~ COVID, Cardiology, and telling my new boss I have a prior commitment with my left kidney
The impending donation grew closer, and Loren was as pumped as we were. Calls had been made to the pastor elders, and plans had been made...
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Mar 29, 202219 min read
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12 ~ "In light of what Christ has done for us, this kidney donation is really nothing.”
Grab your copy of Sovereign and Gentle here What now? That was a pretty good question. By this time, I knew I wanted to donate even if...
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Mar 25, 202219 min read
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11 ~ Let the Games Begin
Grab your copy of Sovereign and Gentle here As you already know, my bread-and-butter job was working for a branch of the world’s largest...
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Mar 15, 202215 min read
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10 ~ God's Provision in Real Estate Deals Gone South
The next house was slightly more questionable than the last, but it was a 1914, brick craftsman on four acres in the middle of cows and...
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Mar 8, 202212 min read
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9 ~ Bouncing Babies, Bust Oil Fields, and Broken Ankles
Grab your copy of Sovereign and Gentle here The oilfield crashed hard before the girls’ first birthdays, and I learned the hard way that...
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Mar 2, 202212 min read
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8 ~ Identity
Grab your copy of Sovereign and Gentle here Who is my daughter, and who are her parents? Should she know her biological parents as “Mom”...
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Feb 25, 20229 min read
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7 ~ That one time I handed a baby to Hulk Hogan...
Grab your copy here I know we have spent quite a while on the adoption of our first, but I need to share just a bit more about how God...
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Feb 21, 202211 min read
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6 ~ Adoption Pt 1
Book available on Amazon We happened to be visiting Julia’s family in New Mexico on vacation, and I was planning to go live with our...
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Feb 20, 202218 min read
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5 ~ Foster care - if you know, you know.
This is a tough one to share. We failed big time. Some of you can relate. Just know you're not alone. grab a copy here We began to...
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Feb 20, 202210 min read
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4 ~ Trigger warning! Short but pointed opinion on IVF and Christian Couples
3. IVF AND THE CHRISTIAN COUPLE Book now available here We continued to fix up that little Cape Cod, and Julia’s miscarriages had taken...
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Feb 20, 20224 min read
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3 - Mega church Mega problems
From below: The beautiful thing about depending on the sovereign hand of God is that we can disagree on Ecclesiology while thanking God...
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Feb 20, 202227 min read
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2 - Dave is an introvert?
order your copy on Amazon A few weeks later, after Julia and I had some time to talk out our master plan of how we wouldcomplete our...
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Feb 20, 20228 min read
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Intro and Part 1 ... Oh hey, I wrote a book
Hello, and welcome to my not a blog blog! So, I wrote a book, and I want the message of that book to get out regardless of whether or not...
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Feb 20, 20226 min read
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