Our friends, Jan and Mark Lacher, received a new diagnosis for their youngest son recently: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. It is a catastrophic epilepsy with no cure. Here is a portion of their email, which I am using with Jan’s permission. Please read it – especially linger over the last paragraph – and marvel at God’s sustaining [...]
Archive for September, 2011
“We know that God’s Word is always, always, always, true.” Jan Lacher
Posted in Prayer Requests, Quotes on September 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“But no one defeats the Bible.” Ray Ortland
Posted in Quotes on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I deeply appreciate Ray Ortland’s blog; he marries beautiful paintings and pictures with words of truth. His blog yesterday, Sight or blindness?, included an image I actually didn’t like all that much – which is unusual – but the text made me stop to worship! I’ve included it here in its entirety: “The prophecies, the [...]
“God changed me through cancer.” Victor Watters
Posted in Special Events on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Both videos can also be seen by clicking here and here.
Conference on Disability and the Bible
Posted in Prayer Requests, Special Events on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Since it made the list of upcoming events in the Desiring God National Conference booklet, I’m assuming its ok to make this public! Lord willing, on November 8, 2012 Desiring God will be hosting a one-day conference on the Bible and disability. Please be in prayer about all the preparations that must be made. More than [...]
Pastor John on Christ and contentment
Posted in Quotes on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When Christ is so precious and so satisfying to you that you can count all other things as rubbish by comparison, then weaknesses and insults and hardships and persecutions and calamities cannot touch the core of your contentment. John Piper, speaking to Desiring God’s Philippian Fellowship, September 23, 2011
“A birth defect by God’s grace does not rob childhood of its wonder” – Judy Squier
Posted in Quotes on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Jan Lacher for pointing me to this article by Elizabeth Elliot. I deeply appreciate Elizabeth Elliot, and this article written in 1989, There Are No Accidents, Says Judy, just adds to my regard for her. She is writing and quoting her friend, Judy Squier, a woman born without legs. Some of the [...]
Please pray for the Desiring God National Conference: Finish the Mission
Posted in Prayer Requests, Special Events on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday we’re welcoming about 3,000 people to the Minneapolis Convention Center for the Desiring God National Conference. The topic is on missions – this is a massively important conference! There are hundreds of millions of people around the world who are disabled – when we add in their families and caretakers, the numbers of [...]
Tell your story and encourage somebody!
Posted in Book Commentary, commentary on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Paul woke up in a mess on Wednesday, the kind that demands attention before he can be ready for school. It was a moment ripe for a ‘why me, Lord’ thought. God, instead, reminded me of Greg Lucas’ son, who frequently also woke up in a mess. In his book, Wrestling with an Angel, Greg [...]
Yes, rejoicing in hardship makes God look glorious!
Posted in Quotes on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch with some new friends on Tuesday who have an incredible story about their son’s first few days of life – and the resulting disability. Their combined response: God is good. In hard things, God is good. In things that could have been prevented if they had just lived somewhere else, God is [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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God helps me through contrasts
Posted in commentary, Scripture on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As God has done many times for me, I was confronted by two contrasting views of God’s sovereignty over just a few hours. One view was in a memoir by a parent about her child with disabilities; the other was an email from a dear family. The memoir includes all the things we parents of [...]
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