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Pastor Jason Meyer: we need children with disabilities among us

Posted in Sermons on March 31, 2014| 1 Comment »

Pastor Jason Meyer on why children with disabilities are good – no, necessary – for the church:

His entire sermon can be watched, heard or read here.

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“Dear future mom.” Young people with Down syndrome encourage a mother-to-be

Posted in commentary on March 17, 2014| 2 Comments »

An Italian organization, CoorDown, created this exceptional video of people with Down syndrome answering a question from a pregnant mother.

World Down Syndrome Day is March 21 (3/21 – get it?).

Let’s make sure people don’t just know about Down syndrome, but actually get to know people who live with it by letting the babies live, welcoming them into our churches, and letting their gifts be expressed for the glory of God and the good of God’s church.

Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind (or with Down syndrome)? Is it not I, the LORD?” (Exodus 4:11 ESV)

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I wanted to title that post something else. . . .

Posted in commentary on March 10, 2014| 3 Comments »

At Desiring God today they put up a post I wrote which they titled, “Four Kinds of Churches Worth Leaving.”

My original title was “Pastor, if you claim to believe the Bible and you say this to a family like mine, I will personally punch you in the nose.”

The content editors at Desiring God appreciated my passion, but wisely made the change. They also took a 1400 word post and shaved it down to 600 words. That was a good thing as well. There was a lot more heat than light in what I sent them!

I hate, to my core, the stories of churches that tell families like ours to leave – until I started thinking about the churches where that would be a kindness and came up with four.

For the churches who do dumb things out of love, I have a lot more patience. May God grant us the wisdom to see when churches and leaders are pursuing our good in wrong-headed ways out of love for God and affection for us and confidence in the Bible! And may we respond with kindness and confidence that God is good – along with a thought or two about what might actually be useful.

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