The past several weeks I have featured posts on Unchained here, here, here, and here.   Happily, they have become some of the most popular posts on “The Spin.”   Unfortunately, I haven’t had any new ones step forward to offer their story, so you are relegated to hearing from me.  🙁   I thought I would highlight some blogs that I have read this past week that said some “good stuff.”  But before I do that I would like to share an email I received.   In this post, I asked prayer for several families going through, shall we say, interesting times.  If you go to the end of that post you will see I had asked prayer for Jason & Andrea, a fellow pastor and blogger who pastors Breakthrough Church in Alaska.  He, Andrea and their three children went to Japan to adopt a young boy.   I had emailed Jason my post on Miracles, because their story of making it to Japan is truly one in itself.   This is the email I received from him.

I forget you’re not on Facebook–we’ve been updating every step of the way there. On Saturday in the rush of getting off a train, we lost our bag. That bag had between $600-$700, our prepaid rail passes to get us back to Tokyo, and OUR PASSPORTS (including the one for our new son that we had received the day before). Amazingly, that morning we gathered in prayer as a family and I led us. The word I kept coming back to was ‘peace.’ From Saturday to Monday, I had a sense that God had his hand on the bag and we would get it back. When Monday morning came, we had to start contacting the Embassy and figuring out steps to take if the bag didn’t return. The hardest one was my wife calling the social services about replacing our son’s Japanese passport, but while she was on the phone with the social worker, we got the call that they had found the bag! We weren’t sure exactly how much was in my wife’s wallet, but if someone took some, they didn’t take it all. The main thing was those passports! Replacing those and the rail passes would have been thousands of dollars (we didn’t have), but God turned it around and we celebrated thoroughly! Thought you might enjoy hearing that. Besides those here, you’re the first one to hear the whole story. 🙂

Is that not insane how God came through?  I got chills when I read that…and I’m not a chilly-kind of guy.   I know there will be skeptics who will pooh-pooh the whole thing, but that will not change the story.   🙂

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My word count is getting high so let me just give you a post or two I think you ought to check out.

Two on the money!  Here and here.  One word about the latter one: BAM!

 For your funny bone: here.

Made me think:  here.

More?  Sure. But enough for now.  The title came from my favorite movie, Back to the Future, where Biff knocks on George’s forehead and says, “Think McFly.  Think.”  I believe that many of us have stopped thinking.  Enjoy.  Any you particularly liked?  Any links you would like to share for me and other readers? 

Do you have an Unchained story you would like to share. Email me: pastor (at) ovcf.org.