Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. All of your hope as a Christian is

rooted in the fact that, by grace, God has adopted you as his child.

In today's episode, Paul Tripp discusses why parents should consider adoption and the challenges

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Paul often says that every ministry is a community project, so thank you for being a part

of this community. In today's first segment, Paul wants you to know that your home is a powerful resource.

Many years ago, Llella and I were reading a book by Lisa Rochette.

Lisa was a lawyer for the Child Welfare Department of Philadelphia.

And the book was called Throwaway Children.

And it was story after story of the terrible things that happened to children as a result of bad adult decisions.

And we literally wept our way through this book.

And it hit us, it seems kind of dumb to say it now, but it hit us that our home was a resource.

That this view that somehow you have your little family life here and ministry over here is just not biblical,

that a Christian family is a wonderful resource of help and protection and guidance and rescue.

And we thought if we can rescue one child and bring that child into a home of faith

and shower that child into a home of faith and shower that child with the love of the Lord Jesus

Christ and the truth of God's Word. If that's all we did with our lives, our lives would

have been worth living. And so we did that. And I think that there's no more consistent application of what it

means to be part of God's kingdom work than to open your home to someone who desperately needs

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