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By Joni and Friends partner | Article
We give all the glory to God for the way He blesses His work all over the world. I am moved by the article and fully agree with Steve that…
By Rev Steve Bundy | Article
People with disabilities are shown as central to the teaching on the kingdom of God in Luke 14:1-24. However, to understand the message regarding those with disabilities, we must also…
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Sermon/Message
Joni Eareckson Tada discusses the emotional and spiritual struggles she experienced following the accident that paralyzed her, and explains how she found peace by learning to accept her condition and…
By Joni and Friends | Video
Dan and Marisol Jaramillo and their daughter, Meghan, were accustomed to being stared at and feeling alone in public, where no one identified with a 17-year-old wheelchair user. Yet, their…
By Joni and Friends | Video
When Thom and Blanca Siebels’ third child, James, was diagnosed with autism, they found it increasingly difficult to maintain normal family life. How did their church respond to them? In…
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Sermon/Message
Watch Joni speak at Biola Chapel and introduce the Theology of Disability and Suffering course.
By Joni Eareckson Tada | Article
I recently attended a fundraiser in San Francisco for our Joni and Friends Family Retreats. Every year these camps are filled to capacity and scores of families with special needs…
By gary rieben | Article
"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33 “It is doubtful whether God can use any man greatly until he has…
By Mary DeMuth | Blog
I’m reading a book right now that talks about the importance of doing only those things that fulfill you. As I head to Cape Town in a few days, I…
By Gregg Okesson | Blog
Everyday I walk to work. My pathway, rough and dirty, takes me past a cemetery, across a field, alongside the morgue, until I reach my office. At every step along…
By Libby Little | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ Editor’s note: Shortly after Libby Little wrote this response to Ajith Fernando’s article on suffering, she received news that her husband…
By Miroslav Volf | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Servicer’ ’Thus God wears the mask of the Devil, and the Devil wears the mask of God; God wants to be recognized…
By Elizabeth Sendek | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Service’ In his insightful article, Fernando laments a contemporary idea of vocational fulfilment in ministry that has removed the cross from its…
By Thomas Schirrmacher | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ As a Westerner I wholeheartedly agree with Fernando’s conclusions. For centuries large parts of the Middle East were lost to church…
By Ajith Fernando | Article
I felt humbled as I returned from teaching pastors in the deep south of Sri Lanka. In these pastors’ experience, it often takes ten to fifteen years pioneering in unreached…
By Various | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
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By Moses Alagbe | Presentation
I haven’t read any article with regards to the issue of suffering as we take the whole Gospel to the whole world. Has suffering got anything to do with the…
By James B Carroll | Blog
Alongside a suburban maze of intersecting streets lie several acres of dense woodland. A nondescript gate separates the solitude of this natural oasis from the hub-bub of its man-made…
By Dr. Dion Forster | Blog
Yesterday afternoon I had the privelage of participating in an interview with Ajith Fernando. The interview was arranged by Jon Hirst who heads up the Lausanne Blogger Network. Please also see this article by…
By Cody C. Lorance | Blog
"Ministry and frustration go hand and hand. And I was very much concerned that people were interpreting frustration as a sign that this is not where God wants them to…
