Thank you to Justin Taylor for posting yesterday on Nancy Guthrie’s new book, Be Still, My Soul: Embracing God’s Purpose and Provision in Suffering.
I highly recommend watching Justin’s interview with Nancy Guthrie. She has experienced profound suffering herself in her family, and proclaims God as good and sovereign.
I look forward to reading this book, and [...]
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Embracing God’s Purpose and Provision in Suffering
Posted in Book Commentary on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A ‘hermeneutic of suspicion’ because of disability?
Posted in Book Commentary, commentary on February 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Hermeneutics is defined by Random House as:
the science of interpretation, esp. of the Scriptures.
the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis.
A few years ago I was introduced to the term ‘hermeneutic of suspicion’ in the book, Copious Hosting, by Jeanie Weis Block:
“Therefore, scriptural exegesis of the disability passages begins with a [...]
Just the Way I Am: God’s Good Design in Disability is coming soon!
Posted in Book Commentary on February 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I don’t know exactly when it will be ready, but we are now weeks rather than months away from having it, Lord willing.
Here is the cover.
That is Pastor Kempton Turner with his oldest son, Christian.
There is more I will say about this cover later. For now, just enjoy.
“It is right and good to pray for healing.”
Posted in Book Commentary on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John Piper, from Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, page 25:
It is right and good to pray for healing. God has purchased it in the death of his Son, with all the other blessings of grace, for all his children (Isa. 53:5). But he has not promised that we get the whole inheritance in this [...]
Disability, Disease and Treasuring God
Posted in Book Commentary, Helpful things on December 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every household should have a copy of Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper. Yes, there is a chapter on Christmas, which is very good and helpful. But I recommend it for other reasons.
Our cancer period had days when it was hard to pray with the children over something as simple as meals. So [...]
Don’t Waste Your Disease or Disability
Posted in Book Commentary on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Within weeks of each other in 2006, John Piper and David Powlison were diagnosed with prostate cancer. Pastor John wrote a helpful article, “Don’t Waste Your Cancer,” that outlines 10 ways people can waste their cancer. David Powlison added his thoughts to each of the ten shortly thereafter. Here is an excerpt:
9. You will waste [...]
Endure to the End
Posted in Book Commentary on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We were weak, fallible, proud and full of sin even before disability entered our family. How can anyone hope to endure for a day, let alone ‘to the end’?
We trust in the New Covenant promises of sustaining, enabling grace that were obtained for us infallibly and irrevocably by Jesus Christ in his death and resurrection. [...]
Paul Wolfe on Cancer and God’s Sovereignty
Posted in Book Commentary on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Paul Wolfe’s book, My God Is True! Lessons Learned Along Cancer’s Dark Road, p. 14:
And this king is no mere figurehead. The Lord is a king with control. The traditional term for this divine control is ‘providence’. With holiness, wisdom and power, God preserves and governs all this creatures and all that they do. [...]
Suffering Always Has Meaning
Posted in Book Commentary on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Future Grace by John Piper, pp. 346-347:
We do not grasp the great truth that God has purposes of future grace that he intends to give his people through suffering. We speak of purposes of suffering because it is clearly God’s purpose that we at times suffer for righteousness’ sake and for the sake of [...]
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Posted in Book Commentary on March 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Three books on God and disease, disability, or suffering have arrived in the past two days. I am thrilled!
Sue Hume, who writes Hope for Special Moms, highly recommended Brokenness: How God Redeems Pain and Suffering, by Lon Solomon. Pastor Solomon is the senior pastor for McLean Bible Church, which has one of the most dynamic and comprehensive disability [...]
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