Adopting Three Times: A Dad’s Perspective with Tim Elder (Part 2)
Sep 22, 2026 · 47 min · 13 segments
Adoptive dad Tim Elder returns to share lessons, practical advice, and encouragement for families pursuing domestic infant adoption.
Sep 22, 2026 · 47 min · 13 segments
Adoptive dad Tim Elder returns to share lessons, practical advice, and encouragement for families pursuing domestic infant adoption.
Keep that faith rolling because he knows the plans and the right words way better than we do.
And I was thinking about this this morning, how and I don't know how much we'll go into this, but on a faith level, we have our entire life and our life is infinite, but darkness was here before us and it knows us, right? And it can plant a little seed, a comment, a question, something that happened, doubt about our value, right? And that might be something that we don't recognize at that age of 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12 years old.
And the important thing is to recognize, identify, where is that coming from? What is it? And to cast it out.
And so I think that's when the Lord really celebrates when we rely on him just to kind of, there's so much more we could talk about that.
But I was thinking about that this morning, how as a child, there can be a seed that was planted that you didn't dig into and it didn't grow into anything, but later on it does.
And so that's why, you know, I talk so much about in adoption and just my one-on-one conversations with families when they worry about this and that, and they worry about like, The inequality or, you know, between the different adoptions and having a biological child and everything or interracial adoption.
Or what if the birth mom didn't want open adoption and how will they feel about that and that rejection that they'll feel? And I just focus on, hey, you need to establish their identity in Christ.
That identity in Christ, plus the love that you're giving them is the shield against the darkness.
Keep that faith rolling because he knows the plans and the right words way better than we do.
And I was thinking about this this morning, how and I don't know how much we'll go into this, but on a faith level, we have our entire life and our life is infinite, but darkness was here before us and it knows us, right? And it can plant a little seed, a comment, a question, something that happened, doubt about our value, right? And that might be something that we don't recognize at that age of 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12 years old.
And the important thing is to recognize, identify, where is that coming from? What is it? And to cast it out.
And so I think that's when the Lord really celebrates when we rely on him just to kind of, there's so much more we could talk about that.
But I was thinking about that this morning, how as a child, there can be a seed that was planted that you didn't dig into and it didn't grow into anything, but later on it does.
And so that's why, you know, I talk so much about in adoption and just my one-on-one conversations with families when they worry about this and that, and they worry about like, The inequality or, you know, between the different adoptions and having a biological child and everything or interracial adoption.
Or what if the birth mom didn't want open adoption and how will they feel about that and that rejection that they'll feel? And I just focus on, hey, you need to establish their identity in Christ.
That identity in Christ, plus the love that you're giving them is the shield against the darkness.
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