Kirjahaku

What does it mean to be whole? What does it mean to love? Even if we consider ourselves whole, most of us at least know someone who is not. Most of us know someone who is struggling with a potentially deadly illness or a chronic debilitating health condition. Often this person is more than just someone we know; it is someone we love: someone we cannot bear to see suffer, someone we cannot bear to lose.When we love someone who is not whole, it teaches us something about God. Here are some of those lessons, from the perspective of the mother of a disabled child. This short Bible study workbook, is intended to be completed by individuals or small groups in two to three sessions.

"Wait here, I want the doctor to see this." Everyone looks forward to the twenty-week ultrasound - to that first glimpse, grainy and shifting when the ultrasound tech says things you've been waiting so long to hear: "It's a boy," or, "See that, she's sucking her thumb." Nobody wants to hear, "Wait here, I want the doctor to see this." What happens when the road takes a sudden turn from "healthy pregnancy" to "devastating prenatal diagnosis" to "life as a special needs parent"? Christian author Jennifer Busick relates with unflinching honesty and deep affection the ups and downs of raising a disabled child-and the many ways in which God comes alongside special needs parents, lifting them up and carrying them through the storm. From the lowest moments, like walking out of a hospital room after several failed attempts to place an IV - "I just couldn't stand to be the person torturing my child any longer" - to the unexpected bright spots, like finding adaptive sports - "I knew that being on a basketball team where she could keep up with everyone else would be normalizing for Cora...what surprised me was how normalizing the experience is for parents" - this is an uplifting story of resilience in the face of adversity.

Is there any reason to choose Christianity over all other faiths? In fact, there are many. Most works of Christian apologetics begin making that case from outside Christianity, arguing that the Bible is believable because it is consistent with knowledge independently gathered by scientists, historians, and archaeologists. Choose You This Day begins, instead, from inside Christianity. It examines how the Bible aligns with itself, and the internal logic of its assertions. Alone among the world's major religions, Christianity places sin, death, redemption and righteousness within a rational framework. Christianity alone offers a fully constructed explanation for the problem of evil, and a mechanism for both absolute justice and conditional grace. Only Christianity holds out a promise of life based on demonstrated power over life and death. Every other world religion is man reaching up to God; Christianity alone is God reaching out to man: the only God who loves the world so much that He sent His own Son to die for us. The Christian God is the only God who offers us grace in our weakness, forgiveness in our sin, love even when we hate and reject Him, and life when we deserve death. Christianity is like no other faith. This book will show you how.