weekend reading

Were there some great posts this week or what?

So much is going on, I can hardly keep up. So many posts I wish I had written myself but someone else beat me to it. And I had to figure out what that smell in our fridge was all about. (It was week old black beans, in case you were wondering.)

So this weekend, kick your feet up and check out this post from Jen Hatmaker. (As if you haven't already read it.) I could pour chocolate on that woman and eat her. Seriously.

AND KATIE DAVIS! She drips of the Holy Spirit. He just oozes out of her. Reading her words is so humbling. I pray that we would all be prisoners of hope.

Then there was this post from the Orphan Justice Center.

This week, in the midst of our own crazy, I was having these exact thoughts. I even drafted a post in my mind, but it would not have been as good as this:

"The ending of abortion cannot be separated from the raising up of an adoption movement. Both concern wanting and loving children, born and unborn—and loving them enough to make them our own sons and daughters if they are left fatherless. In the Father’s house, there are no unwanted children.

There are currently nearly half a million children living in U.S. foster care, from newborn babies to teenagers. These children, along with those who have been aborted in their mother’s wombs, are America’s present day unwanted people group. Their lives have been tossed aside and ignored, even by the Church. These children live in our neighborhoods and attend our schools. But do we even see them, and do we care about their lives?

At this time, a very small percentage of the church is adopting the fatherless. Those children whom the world has named “unwanted” have not been received by the Church either.  Currently, the number of Christian church congregations in America outnumbers children who are waiting to be adopted from U.S. foster care by about a 3 to 1 ratio. This means that if each congregation adopted even one child, there would be no orphans in America. God has given His church the charge to care for the oppressed, the poor, and the orphan. These statistics yield disturbing evidence that the church, as a whole, has not heeded His Word on this issue. Currently, the government is raising the fatherless, though the church was given the mandate. "

Oh how I pray we will take these words to heart.

 
Francis Chan For Orphan Sunday from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.

And finally, who doesn't love Francis Chan? If you haven't seen this Orphan Sunday video it's worth watching AND sharing.

And if you haven't heard of Orphan Sunday check it out here.

I plan to do a post on it but you never know when something will go bad in our fridge...

What are you reading this weekend?