Snap Judgment: The story of Xiao Xiao

Listen to this incredible story of love...a four-year old girl gives us a glimpse of what Jesus' love must be like for us.

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"The way I think about it is this: if you think about love being a state where you can't be happy if the person you love isn't happy, this is the way she loved that little boy. She never could rest knowing that he was still there." --Jacqueline's mother





the power of prayer;

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A Modern-Day Prodigal Son

Driving home last night I heard this story on NPR's "All Things Considered." Joseph Shapiro's "In New Orleans, a Mother's Search for Her Lost Son" is a true, modern day recapitulation of the parable of the Prodigal Son. File this one away for future sermon reference.

Five years ago, Chris Turnbow left home in Marion, Ark., and just disappeared.

His family had reason to believe he was living in New Orleans; a family friend had bumped into him there at Mardi Gras. But that was before Hurricane Katrina. Turnbow's mother, Jean Aaron, tried not to consider whether his long silence meant he was alive or dead.

"I have been so scared since Katrina came, not really knowing anything about what had happened to him, and having the very worst thoughts sometimes," she says. "And then I'd try to be positive about it and know that someday I'd see him again." continued