Because even people in the church can get disability very, very wrong. From the Anglican Church of Canada, Task Force on Human Life, Interim Report, 1977: Our sense and emotion lead us to the grave mistake of treating human looking shapes as if they were human, although they lack the least vestige of human behavior [...]
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Why a conference on disability and the Bible?
Posted in commentary on May 23, 2012 | 6 Comments »
“Right away we knew our calling. . .”
Posted in commentary on May 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Reimer family is incredible in the best sense of the word. God gripped them and guided them into full-time ministry to families like ours. This 3 1/2 minute video will introduce you to them and their work. I’m hoping Tamara Reimer will get some camera time in future videos! Thank you to Pastor Paul Martin for tweeting [...]
We must not stop speaking for the little ones
Posted in commentary on May 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It has been an encouraging week with videos about marriage, a father’s joy, and a mother’s resolve all being posted in the past few days. And then I had this stark reminder: there is a war in our culture against people with disabilities. For some reason, my news reader on Wednesday brought up an article [...]
“Michael!”
Posted in commentary, Scripture on May 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
You’ve probably already seen this – its been viewed more than a million times and many people emailed it to me. It is still a great 2:32 seconds to watch again! (Note: this is a slightly longer version than has been showing up on CNN and other places.) Three highlights for me: 1) A dad [...]
Her children will rise and call her blessed!
Posted in commentary on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Note: This was first posted last year for Mother’s Day. May God’s peace which ‘surpasses all understanding’ (Philippians 4:7) be with every mother today. There are scores of women who have children of all ages who cannot speak an intelligible word because of their cognitive disabilities. Or their children, like my son, have some language, [...]
Make much of God and encourage your pastor: tell your story
Posted in commentary, Special Events on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
8:00 a.m. update: Larissa Murphy’s first blog post, Why We Got Married, has been posted at Desiring God and is terrific. Please read it and be blessed by a young couple who are not wasting their lives. In case you haven’t seen Ian and Larissa’s story yet, it is below. Larissa is also writing on [...]
“I found full freedom. . .” – Chai Ling
Posted in commentary, News on May 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Chai Ling, who participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement, writes an incredible summary of Chen Guangcheng’s story in the Huffington Post yesterday. Chen Guangcheng’s story is amazing even before we learn he is blind! But that isn’t the best part. Coming at the end, Chai Ling expresses her greater hope for Chen Guangcheng and all of China: [...]
Why Chen Guangcheng makes me think of the man born blind
Posted in commentary, News, Scripture on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As I write this, Chen Guangcheng is still reportedly at the United States embassy in China. He is famous because he has stood against a great evil in China: A self-taught lawyer, he has called attention to human rights abuses against the disabled and women who have been forcibly sterilized. In Crisis Over Dissident, U.S. Sends [...]
Let us stand like this man
Posted in commentary on April 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I had the pleasure of joining a group of people on Friday that included a Christian man from Ghana. He loves Jesus and he holds tightly to the promises of God in ways that are beautiful and humbling. He has been evangelizing, mentoring and teaching for years in Western Africa, including in some very dangerous [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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Seeing reality through pain and pleasure
Posted in commentary, Quotes on May 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality. . . How can you have failed to see that a real pleasure was the last thing you ought to have let him meet? The Devil Screwtape [...]
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