We’re still praying for a May release of the book. All looks good, but please keep praying!
And now we know what it will cost! $14.99 retail, but $11.99 at desiringGod.org.
And cases of 36 will go for $7 per book ($252 total)! Churches, crisis-pregnancy centers, schools, rehab clinics, hospitals – this would be a great way to bless the people who come through your doors. Please note: I don’t know if that price per case will be permanent or temporary, so please consider getting your copies early.
I don’t know when orders can be taken, but be assured I will let you know.
We’ll be giving away some copies to blog readers. I’m not sure how many or what our criteria will be, but we’ll announce that soon as well.
More than one person made the reference, ‘out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise,’ to me after seeing Paul sing yesterday. Usually people are referencing Matthew 21:14-16, where Jesus himself uttered those words:
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
Jesus is referencing Psalm 8:2
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
To still the enemy and the avenger?
I needed some help with that, so I turned to Matthew Henry’s Commentary and found this very helpful statement on that verse:
Sometimes the power of God brings to pass great things in his church by very weak and unlikely instruments, and confounds the noble, wise, and mighty, by the base, and weak, and foolish things of the world, that no flesh may glory in his presence, but the excellency of the power may the more evidently appear to be of God, and not of man, 1 Corinthians 1:27,28.
Yes! But why the reference to enemies? Matthew Henry continues:
This he does because of his enemies, because they are insolent and haughty, that he may still them, may put them to silence, and put them to shame, and so be justly avenged on the avengers; see Acts 4:14,6:10. The devil is the great enemy and avenger, and by the preaching of the gospel he was in a great measure stilled, his oracles were silenced, the advocates of his cause were confounded, and unclean spirits themselves were not suffered to speak.
In singing this let us give God the glory of his great name, and of the great things he has done by the power of his gospel, in the chariot of which the exalted Redeemer rides forth conquering and to conquer, and ought to be attended, not only with our praises, but with our best wishes. Praise is perfected (that is, God is in the highest degree glorified) when strength is ordained out of the mouth of babes and sucklings.
My boy is not a baby or an infant – he’s almost 15 years old. But he has been graced with both innocence and confidence. When he sings, he sings without fear or any thought to what other people may think. He sings at school and he sings on the bus and he sings in stores and he sings at home. He proclaims, frequently, who God is.
Can you imagine what that does to the evil one when my boy, and all the other girls and boys like Paul, sing? How many unclean spirits have our children with significant cognitive disabilities silenced by their innocent praises? How often have we been spiritually protected through those in our care? How frequently has God smiled at the God-centeredness of those the world considers expendable?
Sometimes I wonder what Paul gets out of church. Then God gives me a little taste of what Paul is experiencing – and I am reminded all God’s children belong in God’s church!
During Easter services yesterday we sat as a family through the first part of the worship service, until Paul started to interrupt Pastor John. He and I enjoyed (and enjoyed is the right word) the rest of the service from the back.
And then at home Paul (and Jesus) gave me this Easter present:
Here is the entire version of Resurrection Chant by Dan Adler and performed by Heart of the City:
I had the privilege last week of meeting with many friends of Desiring God – the Lord is up to something in South Dakota! I’ll probably blog on some of it next week.
In the meantime, this video has been a great encouragement to me. On this day of celebration, enjoy who our Christ is!
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“Out of the mouths of babies. . . to still the enemy and the avenger”
Posted in commentary, Scripture on April 6, 2010| 5 Comments »
More than one person made the reference, ‘out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise,’ to me after seeing Paul sing yesterday. Usually people are referencing Matthew 21:14-16, where Jesus himself uttered those words:
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
Jesus is referencing Psalm 8:2
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Jesus is risen from the dead! (Paul Knight version)
Posted in Special Events on April 5, 2010| 16 Comments »
Sometimes I wonder what Paul gets out of church. Then God gives me a little taste of what Paul is experiencing – and I am reminded all God’s children belong in God’s church!
During Easter services yesterday we sat as a family through the first part of the worship service, until Paul started to interrupt Pastor John. He and I enjoyed (and enjoyed is the right word) the rest of the service from the back.
And then at home Paul (and Jesus) gave me this Easter present:
Here is the entire version of Resurrection Chant by Dan Adler and performed by Heart of the City:
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The Lord is risen!
Posted in commentary on April 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I had the privilege last week of meeting with many friends of Desiring God – the Lord is up to something in South Dakota! I’ll probably blog on some of it next week.
In the meantime, this video has been a great encouragement to me. On this day of celebration, enjoy who our Christ is!
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