Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip...

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God’s right...

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

sweet.” You don’t want faded pastels and honeyed softness.You want mighty. You want the strong arm an unshakable grip of God who will not let you go — no matter what.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and...

Alzheimer’s disease is never an ‘accident’ in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God’s sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer’s, this means God’s unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to...

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It’s me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don’t drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out...

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else’s plug, that you know what’s on the other side of the gravestone.

Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to...

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don’t need God as much.

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal – ‘I’m not letting go until I get...

…we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

My life goal is to see the world’s one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can’t be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Some people tend to believe that I’m a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that’s not true. I’m not a strong believer. I’m very weak.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that’s what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about...

Every time we go to sleep, it’s a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical...

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn’t get squeamish about it.