If you had the chance to meet eleven-year-old Chloe, the first thing you would notice is her bright smile. Chloe is a big sister just a few minutes older...

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01.05.2024

The Reality of Heaven | Joni and Friends

At present, abstract things like truth and goodness have no substance. Oh, we see these qualities manifested in others, but they are not concrete in themselves. In heaven, though, purity and goodness, righteousness...

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01.05.2024

This Miracle Boy’s Wheelchair is the Perfect Fit! | Joni and Friends

When Jacob was born, he wasn’t breathing. His mother Katrina remembers her anguish as doctors pronounced her baby boy dead. But Katrina believed...

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01.05.2024

Joni and Friends Sees the Urgent Need for Pediatric Wheelchairs | Joni and Friends

Around the world, the majority of children who need wheelchairs have to do without…According to the World Health Organization (WHO), of the 80 million people...

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30.04.2024

Crisis Intervention | Joni and Friends

I travel often, so I see lots of families with small kids in airport waiting areas. Such places, it seems, are most convenient for a kid to throw a tantrum or two. Tired from the trip, the child soon finds an excuse for a crisis...

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29.04.2024

Disability Ministry Makes Life in The Body More Complete | Joni and Friends

For years Pastor Ben McCardell can remember being intimidated by what to say or do around someone living with a disability. But now just one year after...

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29.04.2024

More Than a Conqueror | Joni and Friends

If the final score of a basketball game is 142–6, you know the opponent may have put up a fight, but they were hands-down no match for the victors...

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28.04.2024

Justified and Sanctified | Joni and Friends

Justification is a finished and complete work, and we are perfectly justified the moment we believe; sanctification is an incomplete work and will never be perfected until we reach heaven. Justification admits to no growth...

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27.04.2024

Sanctification | Joni and Friends

As they would say in King James’s times, “Be ye sanctified.” We are to stomp on that natural love of sin and set apart ourselves unto God. Whether it’s willful rebellion or the tiny transgressions you sweep under the carpet...

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27.04.2024

The Caregiver Few Expected | Joni and Friends

More times than not, people with disabilities are the recipients of care from parents, siblings, loved ones, and medical practitioners. This fact of life has...

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26.04.2024

Justification | Joni and Friends

Someone once said that Jesus, when he hung on the cross, bore the weight of the sins of more than 40 billion people in the space of nine hours. We haven’t a clue to that horror, let alone the love. We can only drop to our grateful knees that...

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25.04.2024

For the Beauty of the Earth | Joni and Friends

For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night, Hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light. Lord of All, to Thee we raise...

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25.04.2024

Prophetic Presence of Joy | Joni and Friends

We are grateful to meet again with Dr. Daniel Kyungu, a social scientist and a bishop with the Church of Christ in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC...

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24.04.2024

A List of Tears | Joni and Friends

Think of all the tears you’ve ever cried. That time at recess when you weren’t picked for dodgeball. The Saturday night of the prom when you sat home alone. The job interview that went sour. The time your neighbor down...

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23.04.2024

The Power of an Opinion Not Spoken | Joni and Friends

These days, we’ve been conditioned to offer our opinions on just about everything. With social networking sites flickering at us from our phones, survey...

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23.04.2024

The Touch of the Master’s Hand | Joni and Friends

My favorite classical guitar piece is called “Recuerdos del Alhambra.” And nobody plays it like Christopher Parkening, probably the greatest classical guitarist in the world. My husband, Ken, is friends with...

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22.04.2024

Remember the Love of Christ | Joni and Friends

Let’s say you are going through a tough, confusing trial and you’re having a hard time understanding the good that God intends in it. Man, I’ve been there...

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21.04.2024

Follow the Wrangler | Joni and Friends

The Patapsco River runs white water between Marriottsville and Woodstock, Maryland. I ought to know, because as a child I rode horses there. Over the course of a half mile, the river drops several meters...

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20.04.2024

A Spiritual Prayer | Joni and Friends

Corrie ten Boom survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to travel the world to share Christ with millions. A series of strokes severely incapacitated her, after which she retreated to the sanctuary...

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20.04.2024

Am I Glad to See You! | Joni and Friends

Today marks the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing that gutted a U.S. federal office building, leaving 168 people dead. That day a pastor friend in the city invited me to hurry and come visit families...

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18.04.2024

High Stakes | Joni and Friends

To the apostle Paul, it must have seemed as though his life were spinning out of control at times. How could he avoid shipwrecks? He had no control over the phony apostles who were jealous of him...

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17.04.2024

Completed, Paid For, and Nailed | Joni and Friends

Let’s do an inventory of our life in Christ, using Isaiah’s announcement. Our slavery to sin has ended. Check. Jesus paid for our sins. Check. God has given us double for all our sins. Che—Hey? What’s going on here?...

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16.04.2024

I Need You | Joni and Friends

Jesus and his disciples had slipped out of the Upper Room and into the darkness, through a city gate, down the steep ravine, and up into the hill of olive trees. He trembled with a deep sense of foreboding. Would his three closest friends...

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16.04.2024

Joni Eareckson Tada’s Latest Book Named a Finalist for the 2024 Christian Book Award | Joni and Friends

Joni Eareckson Tada's latest book, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus, has been named a finalist for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's...

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15.04.2024

The Power of God | Joni and Friends

People say, “Joni, I really admire your strength.” I thank them, but then I respectfully disagree. Look, if I’m strong in anything…it’s in knowing how weak...

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15.04.2024

Jesus, the Good Shepherd and the Sermon on the Mount | Joni and Friends

Many years ago, Ken and I had the opportunity to travel to Israel. We saw and did so much during our brief visit, but the highlight of our trip inspired me...

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14.04.2024

Big and Small Miracles | Joni and Friends

If you made a list of all the big creation miracles Jesus did before he came to earth, what would be on it? My list contains galaxies, black holes, solar systems, the law of gravity, the law of thermodynamics, the atmosphere...

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13.04.2024

A Promised Peace | Joni and Friends

Spring fulfills a promise given before winter that life will return. “Wait and you’ll see,” the tangled, bare branches seem to say in late autumn. “Life will return in full green.” The assurance that spring will...

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12.04.2024

Family Retreat is an Opportunity to Spread God’s Love | Joni and Friends

For twelve-year-old Enoch and his family, being part of the Joni and Friends community has been a transformative experience. Enoch has autism and has...

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12.04.2024

Sentimentality and Jesus | Joni and Friends

Have you ever noticed that we treat a person or an object sentimentally because of emotion, not reason? That’s certainly true when it comes to the sentimental pictures we have of Jesus: Jesus with his hair parted...

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11.04.2024

Your Destiny | Joni and Friends

I made a tough decision the other day. My desires were pulling me one way, my conscience the other. What made it tougher was that it was a watershed decision for me, a crossing of the Rubicon, an “I never can turn back”...

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11.04.2024

The Passover Lamb | Joni and Friends

We usually think of the Day of Atonement as a time of sin sacrifice. It was during Atonement Day—sometime in the month equivalent to our August—that the...

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11.04.2024

Dawn and Ben Love Bringing Their Children to Family Retreat | Joni and Friends

Dawn and Ben love bringing their children, Alexa Anne and Elijah, to Family Retreat. Nine-year-old Elijah has autism. And at Family Retreat...

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10.04.2024

Jennifer’s Story: God’s Grace Through Tragedy | Joni and Friends

When Anne took her three-year-old daughter to Sunday school one morning more than thirty years ago, she couldn’t imagine how both their lives...

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10.04.2024

What If? | Joni and Friends

I once heard a Christian on a religious television program say with glee, “The Christian life is so great, I’d believe it even if it weren’t true.” Her cohost agreed and added, “Even if in the end we found...

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09.04.2024

Respite | Joni and Friends

For anyone who has taken Ken’s place as my caregiver for, say, a couple of weeks while my husband goes fishing, they get a crash course on the demands...

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09.04.2024

A Really Big Inheritance | Joni and Friends

You could use up a month of Sundays thinking about all Jesus secured for us. That’s what the Scripture for today talks about—our inheritance. It all began in the garden with Adam and Eve and their decision to disobey...

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09.04.2024

“Jackson lives for Family Retreat!” Special Needs Families get Refreshed Through Joni and Friends | Joni and Friends

When Jackson was born with Down syndrome 15 years ago, his mom, Suzannah, knew he was a gift from God. However, as Jackson grew...

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09.04.2024

Living and Serving with a Disability: Joni and Friends Staff Member Tracey Motoda’s Story | Joni and Friends

For Tracey, who lives with a disability, working at Joni and Friends is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to share the Gospel! We asked...

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07.04.2024

God’s Word at Work | Joni and Friends

You’re already aware that Jesus quoted this verse when he hung on the cross. Aside from it being a prophetic utterance, it was still an agonizing and honest question voiced from the gut of the Son of Man...

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Chloe’s Bright Smile as She Sat in Her New Wheelchair | Joni and Friends

The Reality of Heaven | Joni and Friends

This Miracle Boy’s Wheelchair is the Perfect Fit! | Joni and Friends

Joni and Friends Sees the Urgent Need for Pediatric Wheelchairs | Joni and Friends

Crisis Intervention | Joni and Friends

Disability Ministry Makes Life in The Body More Complete | Joni and Friends

More Than a Conqueror | Joni and Friends

Justified and Sanctified | Joni and Friends

Sanctification | Joni and Friends

The Caregiver Few Expected | Joni and Friends

Justification | Joni and Friends

For the Beauty of the Earth | Joni and Friends

Prophetic Presence of Joy | Joni and Friends

A List of Tears | Joni and Friends

The Power of an Opinion Not Spoken | Joni and Friends

The Touch of the Master’s Hand | Joni and Friends

Remember the Love of Christ | Joni and Friends

Follow the Wrangler | Joni and Friends

A Spiritual Prayer | Joni and Friends

Am I Glad to See You! | Joni and Friends

High Stakes | Joni and Friends

Completed, Paid For, and Nailed | Joni and Friends

I Need You | Joni and Friends

Joni Eareckson Tada’s Latest Book Named a Finalist for the 2024 Christian Book Award | Joni and Friends

The Power of God | Joni and Friends

Jesus, the Good Shepherd and the Sermon on the Mount | Joni and Friends

Big and Small Miracles | Joni and Friends

A Promised Peace | Joni and Friends

Family Retreat is an Opportunity to Spread God’s Love | Joni and Friends

Sentimentality and Jesus | Joni and Friends

Your Destiny | Joni and Friends

The Passover Lamb | Joni and Friends

Dawn and Ben Love Bringing Their Children to Family Retreat | Joni and Friends

Jennifer’s Story: God’s Grace Through Tragedy | Joni and Friends

What If? | Joni and Friends

Respite | Joni and Friends

A Really Big Inheritance | Joni and Friends

“Jackson lives for Family Retreat!” Special Needs Families get Refreshed Through Joni and Friends | Joni and Friends

Living and Serving with a Disability: Joni and Friends Staff Member Tracey Motoda’s Story | Joni and Friends

God’s Word at Work | Joni and Friends

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