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Joni Eareckson Tada, une femme qui vit dans un fauteuil roulant depuis plus de cinquante ans, et Steven Estes, un pasteur et un des plus proches amis de Joni, explorent les réponses aux questions concernant la souffrance. Quand Dieu pleure n'est pas tant un livre sur la souffrance que sur Dieu. À travers un survol de ce que la Bible dit au sujet de la souffrance, les auteurs expliquent clairement qui est Dieu, pourquoi il permet tant de chagrin et de douleur, et comment nous pouvons lui faire confiance.

Brother Lawrence lived through the drudgeries of monastery kitchen duty during the turbulence of 1600s France. Joni Eareckson Tada suffered a terrible accident that broke her neck and left her paralyzed. This tragedy led her from a life of distant faith to a life as a devout Christian, and she later became a worldwide influence and disability rights activist, sharing her experiences of suffering with grace. In both their lives, they each found the secret to peace, joy, and a close personal walk with God.

Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it often seems you have more than your fair share. You can't continue at this pace forever, but there doesn't seem to be a way out. With characteristic understanding and compassion, Joni Eareckson Tada helps you begin to slow down and sort through the sources of your stress.

Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain. The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will. A Place of Healing is not an ivory-tower treatise on suffering. It’s an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God. Whether listeners are enduring physical pain, financial loss, or relational grief, Joni invites them to process their suffering with her.

Facing your ultimate death can be scary, but in light of God's promises, it doesn't have to be. Finish Line provides practical and biblical help on topics such as finances, blessing others, end-of-life choices, heaven, and caring for those you leave behind so you can approach your own finish line with hope, joy, and peace.

As an author, speaker, and advocate for people with disabilities, Joni Eareckson Tada has inspired people around the world with her story of faith in the midst of suffering. In this beautiful collection of hymns and devotions she acts as a "song leader," guiding listeners through their own painful seasons with heartfelt praises to God. Songs of Suffering includes 25 hymns with accompanying devotions to spark hope in hardship.

In the throes of a long illness and confronting the possibility of death, 17th-century theologian Richard Baxter found comfort in the reality of heaven that awaits believers of Christ. During his recovery, Baxter wrote about the afterlife in what would become his best-selling book. The Saints' Everlasting Rest meditates on what Scripture reveals about heaven, helping believers live an abundant, God-honoring life in anticipation of eternal rest. Baxter encourages listeners not to become distracted or discouraged by the temporal as he refocuses their minds on the eternal.

Do you ever wonder why God created you? The Bible says it plainly: God created you to showcase His glory—to enjoy it, display it, and demonstrate it every day to all those you encounter. Through this award-winning 365-day devotional, bestselling author Joni Eareckson Tada will help you discover how to put God's glory on full display, no matter what challenges you're facing.

Find hope and help for life's constant challenges in this sparkling collection of daily devotionals. Best-selling author and painter Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic, offers meditations on Bible verses, short prayers, and thoughts for the day that show us where to find diamonds in the dust. Joni has selected 60 of the 366 devotionals found in her printed book and hopes that you will listen to one a day for the next two months, or that you will listen to them in clusters, and in so doing you will draw closer to your Lord and Savior.

Katherine and Jay Wolf were a young couple living the dream in Southern California, but all was nearly lost when Katherine suffered a shocking near-fatal brainstem stroke and struggled to find hope in a life that looked nothing like the one they had before.

On a hot July afternoon, Joni Eareckson Tada's life was dramatically altered in a split second. A reckless dive into shallow water took an athletic young woman from health and success to life as a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. In the 45 years since the release of this book - which has more than five million copies in print in over 40 languages - Joni's earnest struggle to find hope has resonated with millions of listeners around the world.

Step back for a moment, focus your eyes of faith, and come with Joni Eareckson Tada into a world you've heard about from your youth but have never seen: heaven. You just might discover that heaven is closer--and more real--than you've ever thought. Joni offers an inspiring glimpse of heaven and what we will find there.

Through a panoramic overview of what the Bible says about suffering, the authors make clear who God is, why he permits so much heartache and pain, and how it is we can trust him. With both a practical edge and heartfelt warmth, When God Weeps offers dependence on his love and mercy in spite of our doubts, fears, longings, and questions.

In this book, Joni unveils the God whom she has found to be faithful through over 30 years as a paralytic. This is not the story of a woman who has all the answers or who is very different from you. Joni struggles with the same fears, questions, and heartaches we all have in common. But as the weeks and months turn into years and the years into decades, she meets her Savior at every turn.

Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of disorders and difficulties ranging from autism to food allergies, the need for programs and paradigm shifts is greater than ever. Beates thus seeks to motivate churches to pursue ministry to children and adults with developmental disabilities. He works through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability to develop helpful principles for believers and churches, teaching them first to embrace their own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken.

God's Immeasurable grace. It's the most important ingredient for the perfect love story. Tragic circumstances often stretch relationships to their breaking point. But God's grace is always more than enough. For Ken and Joni Eareckson Tada, enduring quadriplegia, chronic pain, cancer, and depression only made their love more vibrant through 30 years of marriage. Discover a bond that has seen the worst and claimed the best. Listen about Joni and Ken’s challenges firsthand. Discover God's immeasurable grace along the way, as their story inspires and enriches your own relationships.

From the best-selling author of Diamonds in the Dust and More Precious Than Silver comes another devotional treasure. These 366 daily meditations by Joni Eareckson Tada reveal priceless pearls of Gods kingdom hidden beneath the surface of our circumstances, waiting for us to discover and claim.

Originally published in 1978, A Step Further is Joni Eareckson Tada's response to thousands of letters she received from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. Joni answers these questions by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in her own life and the lives of others.

Stem-cell research. Cloning. Genetic engineering. Today, discoveries in biotechnology are occurring so rapidly that we can barely begin to address one ethical debate before another looms overhead. This brave new world we've entered is a daunting one as well, with disturbing implications for the sanctity of life and for human nature itself. How should we respond as Christians?

Stories from Joni's life shine in this lovely collection of remembrances. Take just a minute to recall hidden, out-of-the-way moments in your own life when God was present, both in happy and sad times. Words of encouragement, comfort, and insight will leave your soul satisfied and yet longing to be closer to a loving Father, who often shows up in unexpected ways.