The Works of God

Tim Challies and David Murray are friends of Desiring God who recently began their own Podcast at their Facebook site, Connected Kingdom: Connecting Truth & Life in a Digital Age (also can be accessed through iTunes).

Their most recent podcast focused on disability and the church!  Even better, they had two dads of children with disabilities as guests:  Justin Reimer, founder of The Elisha Foundation, and Paul Martin, pastor of Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto.

About ten minutes into their conversation I just leaned back and enjoyed listening to four masculine voices engaging on this issue, brothers in the cause for the sake of our children and the church.  That is unusual.

In fact, I cannot remember ever listening to a podcast or radio program on disability and the church that included only men (my memory could be faulty).  On top of that, men who love and trust God!

In terms of service, women dominate the field of disability, at least in these childhood years.  I am grateful to God for all the women involved in Paul’s life – from doctors to therapists to aides to educators.  And I am grateful for all the women God has called to serve in the ministry at Bethlehem, providing access to dozens of families by serving individual children.  It is wonderful to experience such treasure from God!

And I pray for men to get involved, and God has provided.  I’m praying for more.  So, to have men engaging this issue seriously and hopefully in this podcast, that is a gift to me, and to God’s church.

Thank you, Tim and David!