First, thank you for joining us on this journey. We are excited about what the Lord has in store for us and are grateful you want to come along side us as we step out into the unknown. We encourage you to subscribe to our mailing list on our blog (see right hand side). You will be notified via email whenever updates are posted. Some might be wondering why or how we chose the name for our blog. It would have been easier, possibly, to use some iteration of our last names. All obvious choices were already used. So we decided to head to Scripture and find something meaningful. Adopted By Grace really has a double meaning. While on this adoption journey, obviously our hope is to end up with a child (or two!) of our own that we will be blessed to raise. However, as with anything in our lives, it is all in God's hands. We know that nothing happens by accident and if we are going to adopt a child, it will be by His grace and grace alone. However, we believe that as Christians, we have also been adopted by grace.
We owe everything in our lives, physically and spiritually, to God's grace. He did not have to redeem us. He did not have to save us. He could have given up. He could have turned his face away and ignored or forgotten us. He chose to find a way to make us a part of his permanent family. We recently read a sermon online by John Piper that beautifully describes the similarities between what God did in adopting us and what happens with a Christian adoption today. Here's a short summary:
What a beautifully articulated description of why adopted by grace was and is the perfect title for our adoption journey blog. If you would like to read the sermon in full, it can be found here: http://www.desiringgod.org/messages/adoption-the-heart-of-the-gospel In Him,
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