Cleaning out files has some funny benefits, like finding old notes I wrote to myself: Defining ‘healing’ in the Bible Prerogative of God: There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do [...]
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I wonder what I was thinking. . .
Posted in Scripture on March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
All means all!
Posted in Scripture on March 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4 [...]
The LORD is strong. And he never forgets.
Posted in Scripture on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot of news on the disability front recently, some of it encouraging. None of it as encouraging as this, however: The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not [...]
It didn’t enter my mind to kill him.
Posted in commentary, Scripture on March 4, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Paul is dozing in his ‘soft rocking chair’ at the moment, a picture of contentment on a snowy day in March. Many people would envy the ease with which he lives – no anxiety about his needs, no worries about tomorrow, no jealousy about what anybody else has. When I tell the story about Paul’s [...]
What does ‘all things new’ actually mean?
Posted in Scripture, Sermons on March 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” (Revelation 21:5 ESV) There is an unfortunate stream of thinking amongst some that this is related exclusively to a change in our physical existence. Some theologians react so strongly against that incomplete understanding that they deny that disability will end [...]
“I sought the LORD, and he answered me!”
Posted in Scripture on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A really helpful reading from yesterday’s worship: I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel [...]
It turns out ‘we’re all a little bit broken’
Posted in News, Scripture on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The headline for David Brown’s article in the Washington Post confirms it: Genome news flash: We’re all a little bit broken. Basically, the ‘average’ person has something wrong in their genetic makeup: A new study estimates that the average person goes through life with 20 genes permanently out of commission. With each of us possessing [...]
There’s so much work to do. . .
Posted in News, Scripture on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My friend and DG colleague, Dr. Mark Struck, was doing some background research and discovered this: 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing countries. Source: WHO, 2010 So, the number of people living with some [...]
God is always doing more
Posted in Scripture on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever needed to stay in bed for a week, or broken a leg and couldn’t use it? The muscles get weak from not being used. So, like the man born blind having his brain rewired when Jesus gave him sight, another man, also disabled from birth, experienced far more than what was immediately [...]
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Posted in commentary, Scripture on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday Pastor Sam from Bethlehem blogged this: “The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind yourself of his future.” —Anonymous clipping I found this past week in a file while looking for something else I enjoyed that. It was helpful. That evening I began a project to rid our home of [...]
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