I have read these I don’t know how many times but never put them together before. You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56:8 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that [...]
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God writes down our days, and our tears
Posted in Scripture on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Shameful history. Joy-filled eternity!
Posted in News, Scripture on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For my most recent blog post at Desiring God I spent time reviewing some of the shameful history of the church in the eugenics and abortion movements. Similar to the church’s history with slavery, Dianne had to listen to me wonder how the religious proponents of eugenics at the turn of the 20th century and [...]
Tempted to fear? APTAT
Posted in commentary, Scripture, Sermons on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to blatantly steal from Pastor John the next couple of days, from his sermon The Word of God Is At Work In You. His closing remarks were very practically and particularly helpful: It helps me to have an acronym called APTAT. A — I admit I can’t in myself do what needs to [...]
Should we teach the Bible to those with severe cognitive disabilities?
Posted in commentary, Scripture, Sermons on January 10, 2012 | 36 Comments »
Pastor John’s message, The Word of God Is at Work in You, was exceedingly helpful to me and I commend it to you. As he made seven observations about the text, 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16, to open the sermon, observations 3 and 4 particularly caught my attention. 3. The Thessalonians heard the words of Paul. Verse [...]
Please pray for the families gathering in Oregon
Posted in News, Scripture on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pastor John just spoke to 45,000 young people in Atlanta this week. Greg Lucas will be leading 12 families through Mark 9 the next couple of days at The Elisha Foundation’s winter retreat for families experiencing disability. I’m so glad Jesus showed us it is important to reach big crowds and small! When he went [...]
God made us!
Posted in Scripture on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it is good to be reminded about the totality of God’s care for us. We’re back to Paul having multiple seizures every day, and that is discouraging and painful. One of the fine young men of Desiring God went to Psalm 100 as he lead devotions on Wednesday. My heart melted at verse 3: [...]
Why I am optimistic about 2012
Posted in commentary, Scripture, Sermons on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friday morning I woke up with no heat in the house because the boiler had failed, Desiring God was still $200,000 from its year-end goal, and Paul had multiple seizures the day before. I felt crummy. The little darts and arrows of anxiety and doubt were multiplying. Yet, I knew enough to say to Dianne, [...]
To my friends who face Christmas with an acute mingling of joy and sorrow
Posted in commentary, Scripture on December 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
On Christmas morning my three younger children will slide out of bed and rush to look in their stockings. They will happily compare their little gifts, then not-so-happily wait until everyone is up and breakfast is served, eaten and table cleared before we open presents. They live with excitement about receiving gifts, and increasingly with [...]
Ken and Joni invite everyone to read through the Bible with them!
Posted in Scripture on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best things I’ve done for myself is to commit to read through the Bible in a disciplined way. In fact, I was just wondering when I should blog about that again as the new year approaches when I saw Joni tweet her own invitation to read through the Bible in a year! [...]
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As Christians, knowing isn’t necessary (and it’s ok to ask)
Posted in commentary, Scripture on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This past week, two men who pastor churches – one a veteran, the other in his first years – sent out information about their children. The little girl’s multiple issues are still a mystery, but probably genetic in nature. The little boy has an unknown and as yet undiagnosed issue that causes him to vomit [...]
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