Thank you to Jan Lacher for pointing me to this. This video has been around for almost a year, but I just saw it and was reminded, again, how extraordinary is the love of God toward us.
Archive for March, 2011
‘See what kind of love the father has given to us’ – Prodigal: An Animation
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some things are harder to measure than other things
Posted in commentary, Scripture on March 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In the pile of papers I referenced yesterday were some old test scores. Since Paul attends public schools, they assess his educational progress as mandated by various federal and state bodies. The things they want to measure, he can’t do. His scores on reading, reading comprehension, math, math concepts and the like were as low [...]
A pile full of grace
Posted in commentary on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have one of those closets that is full of things we don’t want to really want to deal with. But we’ve started to deal with it. One of the things in the bottom of the closet was a pile of papers. As I started through those papers I found old bills for medical tests, [...]
Pray they would say the same about unborn people with developmental disabilities
Posted in commentary, News on March 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In a Friday New York Times editorial, The Shame of New York’s Group Homes, the closing sentence makes a clear and urgent moral pronouncement: The answer lies in the state’s urgent obligation to protect those who cannot defend themselves. They are absolutely correct, though it is not just the state who has an obligation to [...]
Read this book and participate in ‘table talks’ with Pastor John
Posted in Book Commentary, Special Events on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After more than 26 years of being associated with Bethlehem, I can say that Pastor John’s preaching has been his primary influence on me. But a close second are his books. And of his books, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist lays the foundation for all the rest that are to come. Through April [...]
Thanking God for a life well lived
Posted in News on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Justin Taylor, who posted this announcement on his blog on Thursday: Harvard Law Professor William Stuntz died last week at the age of 52 after suffering from colon cancer. Both pieces in The New York Times refer to his strong Christian faith. Professor Stuntz developed a distinctly Christian perspective on his field [...]
The sad history of the United States Supreme Court
Posted in Book Commentary, commentary on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve mentioned the bio-ethicist Peter Singer before, and his arguments to kill infants with disabilities. Members of the Supreme Court of the United States have also held such views about people with disabilities. Paul Lombardo’s horrifying history of a case brought before the Supreme Court, Buck v. Bell, includes this statement from Oliver Wendel Holmes, [...]
Pray without ceasing. . . for our pastors
Posted in commentary on March 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
After Paul had his ‘spell’ in church on Sunday, we made our way up to the sanctuary and needed to sit in the balcony. The first thing I saw – five leaders who I love: Pastor John, Pastor Sam, Pastor David standing together; Pastor Kempton across the aisle with his bride, Caryn; and Pastor Chuck [...]
Disability and the evangelical bubble
Posted in commentary, Sermons on March 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Pastor John started his sermon on John 8 this past Sunday by talking about the evangelical bubble we can find ourselves in. It isn’t a bad place to be – it includes all the people who believe what we believe, and love what we love and talk about things we like to talk about. Frankly, [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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Being encouraged to worship through prayer requests
Posted in commentary on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine who is experiencing some very deep waters because of disability in his family sent me some prayer requests in an email earlier this week. It included this: That I would genuinely grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus through this particular season (vs. just enduring it), and that as a [...]
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