We returned late on Monday evening from The Elisha Foundation Retreat in Oregon. Lord willing, I’ll have more in the coming days on this wonderful, God-honoring, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated four days on the Pacific coast. Among the highlights – the music that began our worship each session. Our song leader worked very hard to bring music [...]
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“Help My Unbelief” – Clint Wells and John Newton
Posted in Helpful things on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pastors, help your people to rejoice!
Posted in Helpful things, Scripture on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Christmas eve, sometime after 11pm, my ten-year-old son will take the podium at Bethlehem and read this: And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, [...]
Helpful things: People who pray (and email) like this!
Posted in Helpful things on November 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Do you ever wonder how to let someone know you are praying for them or with them? I certainly do. And God provided a helpful example, this time through one of the great women in my life: my oldest sister. I’m deeply grateful that God has given me sisters who love me and my wife [...]
Be encouraged at the goodness of God in the midst of suffering!
Posted in Helpful things on November 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you didn’t see this video on the Desiring God blog yesterday, please take five minutes to watch and be blessed! Thank you to Children Desiring God and to the Watters’ family for sharing this wonderful testimony. God was preparing them for great suffering, and then he called them to do an incredible thing in adopting [...]
Thank you, Pastor Kenny, for reminding us about important things
Posted in Helpful things on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pastor Kenny Stokes has been serving as pastor for preaching during Pastor John’s leave. I appreciate what God has done through Pastor Kenny during these months. On Saturday, he did two very important things for those of us living with disability in our families: 1. As he welcomed the parents and children being dedicated* to [...]
David Powlison on talking about disability
Posted in Helpful things on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Jason who pointed to this post, thinking about autism from a Christian perspective, provided by Justin Taylor earlier this year in response to Sunday’s post here. David Powlison, respected Christian counselor, author and speaker, shares his thoughts on how people who are different for a variety of reasons can serve others by talking [...]
How do we help people talk to us about disability in life-giving ways?
Posted in commentary, Helpful things on August 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In response to yesterday’s post, Elisabeth asked the question, “how (do) you help people know how to talk to you about disability in a way that is helpful and life-giving.” That’s a huge question! Three things immediately came to mind. I’m hoping more of you will add to this conversation: 1) I remember who I [...]
More benefits of long-term church membership
Posted in commentary, Helpful things on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was reminded this week of another reason it is a good for those of us dealing with disability to have a long-term connection to a church: long-term church friends. We spent a wonderful Thursday with friends of ours who now serve overseas as translators for a people-group in south-east Asia. We first met them [...]
Keeping Awareness of Disablity before the Church: Bethlehem’s Family Discipleship Newsletter Feature Article for July
Posted in Book Commentary, Helpful things on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have been blessed at Bethlehem with leadership who wants the church to know about and get involved with disability in a variety of ways. Last month, of course, every family received a copy of Just the Way I Am. This month I was delighted to learn that the feature article for the Family Discipleship [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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Adoption and disability go together
Posted in Book Commentary, commentary, Helpful things on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
God has placed some great men in my life, brothers who encourage me deeply as they trust Jesus, love their wives, and lead their families. Several of them have adopted children, sometimes with disabilities, into their families. None of them puts on a happy face or pretends it is easy. These are real men, understanding [...]
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