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Saturday, 22 January 2011

This blog site features ongoing, updated blogs from members of Cedar Grove Baptist Church. The page is "under construction." Surely, improvements will be made and many more blogs will be added. We must first learn how best to accomplish that task. In the meantime, enjoy what we have set up thus far. Feel free to join in the conversation.

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Clarity on Honor Killings

I have posted several times about the troubling rise of so-called “Honor Killings” in North America. I am happy to report that Canada has stepped up to the plate and and taken a mighty swing against the heinous Muslim practice of killing your children in order to protect your honor. One wonders how indeed it [...]

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Simple Concepts Concerning Life

In memory of the 50 million Americans lost since the dreadful Roe v. Wade decision, I wrote a poem for a competition hosted by the Manhattan Declaration (you can read it here). The point of the poem is simply this: A little girl in the womb has no guarantee of liberty or the pursuit of [...]

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Tebow Top Ten?

Tim Tebow is not the best quarterback in the NFL. He isn’t even in the top 5 of NFL quarterbacks. –Hold it, I am not a hater! I love Tim Tebow. I have enjoyed following him since he entered the Swamp as a freshman at Florida. Tebow supporters have an obligation to be honest about [...]

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Our Ethiopian Adventure

How Is an Orphan Supposed to Look?

The morning of Wednesday, December 14, 2011, was one of the strangest mornings of our lives. First, it was strange because we had been in Instanbul, Turkey, only hours before our Wednesday breakfast in Ethiopia. Before Istanbul, we were in Chicago. Before that, Louisville, KY. Our first morning in Africa was a peculiar culmination of [...]

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Adoptions Down

Adoptions Down The 2011 adoption statistics were just released, and they showed that adoptions are down in the U.S. Indeed, adoptions were down a significant 15% from the 2010 numbers, and down a mind-boggling 60% from the peak numbers of 2004. One must go back nearly two decades (1994) to find a year in which there [...]

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Adoption Sounds of Silence

Folk rock legend Paul Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” when he was 21. It took Simon about 6 months to write the song because he was able to eek out only one line per day–a fitting testament to the difficulty that one person has trying to communicate with another. (Christians understand from Genesis 3 [...]

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