There are things we know are good for us, but it can be hard to persevere (or even to start). Reading through the Bible is one of those things – it really is helpful! It can also be exciting. God continues to reveal things I hadn’t seen or understood before, even in passages I’ve read [...]
Archive for July, 2011
August 1 is a good time to start!
Posted in Scripture on July 31, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Hope not in numbers but in the One
Posted in News, Scripture on July 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Tim Challies pointed to an excellent blog posting by Mike Pohlman, who was writing about watching his wife battle her Stage IV cancer and persist in the fight of faith. It is a short read, full of Bible and wisdom, and I recommend it. My own Dianne also wanders off to see her oncologist every [...]
“Personally I find the doctrine of the sovereignty of God to be the most comforting. . .”
Posted in commentary, Scripture on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Amazing testimony. The video and audio are a little rough, but it is worth the 7 minutes. You can also see it by clicking here. Thank you to Jan Lacher for sending it to me.
Nancy Guthrie on DG Live Thursday Night at 6:00 p.m. Central
Posted in News, Special Events on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Guthrie has experienced deep suffering – and found Christ enough! You can watch some of Nancy and David’s story here, created by Joni and Friends. It is a remarkable, personal, intimate look into a number of issues – the sovereignty of God, the response from the church, living in a fishbowl, the need for [...]
Lord, teach us to praise you like this!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor Bud Burk shepherds the children’s program at the downtown and south campuses and has been a great proponent for including all the children, including our ‘different’ children. From the first time I met this man, before he was hired at Bethlehem, I knew I could learn a great deal from him about trusting in [...]
Gendercide and disability
Posted in commentary, News on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Many of the comments and opinion articles on the issue of abortion based on the sex of a child are quick to point to misogyny in various Asian cultures as the reason behind what Pastor John wrote about on Saturday. The sneer that we know better and are better than those cultures is barely veiled. [...]
The horrors of sin and the greatness of God
Posted in News, Prayer Requests on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The horrors of 163,000,000 girls being aborted, as Pastor John reported yesterday, are beyond human comprehension. At least beyond my comprehension – I can’t begin to understand a number that large. But God does. He has perfect knowledge of more than 6.9 billion people. And he knows every one of us more intimately than we [...]
Something solid to hold when the winds blow: a word from Nancy Guthrie
Posted in Quotes, Special Events on July 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nancy and David Guthrie’s story is incredibly hard – the loss of two children to a fatal genetic syndrome. And God has turned it into a speaking and writing ministry that I find incredibly helpful: When the winds of sorrow and doubt and questions and pain were blowing the hardest in my life, there were [...]
Free Twin Cities Event: Imagining Personhood in Light of Limitations, Disability, and Suffering
Posted in Special Events on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Eugenics didn’t begin with Hitler or government agencies or Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. It began in the universities of Britain, Germany and the United States. Long before infanticide of babies with disabilities became a government-sanctioned reality in the Netherlands, faculty at prestigious universities in the United States and Europe were arguing for it. So I’m grateful [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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I called myself an advocate. But I was really an assassin.
Posted in commentary on July 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Very shortly after my son was born and diagnosed with the first of his multiple disabilities I learned I would need to be an ‘advocate’ for him. To summarize, that meant I needed to learn how to deal with very complicated medical, educational, social work and legal systems if I hoped to get him services [...]
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