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And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles [...]

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From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength Because of Your adversaries, To make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son [...]

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Bitter or angry? APTAT

Dianne to me: the doctor’s office called and he wants to increase Paul’s meds to 8 ml morning and evening. Me: you’ve got to be kidding.  What are they thinking? Backstory: Paul’s medications have helped control his seizures, until a recent five-day span when he had multiple seizures every day.  Dianne has been trying to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Church was about as good as it gets yesterday. I ran into this verse on a wall before we headed into the sanctuary: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall [...]

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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, [...]

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Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2 ESV) The peculiar mark of God’s majesty is not just that he stoops to listen to or take thought of or care for infants, but that he makes them the [...]

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Related to yesterday’s post on joy, Pastor John dealt with the reality of this life and the wonder of Jesus in a helpful way during his sermon on Sunday, If a Grain of Wheat Dies, It Bears Much Fruit: (Jesus) says, I am going to glory. I am going to bear much fruit. And the [...]

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Well-meaning preachers and writers will suggest that God never ’causes’ disability, but when disability shows up he is ready and able to do something about it.  I believe that most who say and write such things are hoping to protect God from being accused of doing bad things. But God takes credit for even worse things [...]

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