Sitting on my dad’s knee and watching him swirl oils on his canvas... those are my earliest memories of painting. It wasn’t long before I had my crayons out...

Joni and Friends Blog

05.09.2025

Mark Rediscovered Connection, Community, and a New Hope in Christ | Joni and Friends

“Together, we make Christ real to those who don’t yet know the power of his love.” This is how Joni Eareckson Tada has summed up the work of Joni and Friends...

Joni and Friends Blog

04.09.2025

Be Joyful in Hope | Joni and Friends

Forced bed rest is no fun. But I know a secret that helps me face it in faith. I choose a theme verse to help me keep focused. During a recent...

Joni and Friends Blog

03.09.2025

Assurance | Joni and Friends

Ah, to have full assurance of faith! Faith, full-grown and come of age. Faith that gives spiritual sight into spiritual realities...

Joni and Friends Blog

03.09.2025

Axel’s Miracle: Healing and Hope at Joni’s House Nicaragua | Joni and Friends

Living Nicaragua, Dania had enjoyed her uneventful pregnancy and went through a natural delivery without complications. But during Axel’s early childhood...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

Conditional Promises | Joni and Friends

Certain promises have strings attached. Like this one from John 15:7. True, we may ask whatever we wish, but Jesus qualifies our prayers with two...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

Habakkuk | Joni and Friends

This guy had it bad! Can you imagine being a farmer and waking up one morning to see your fig trees and vines bare, the olive orchard dead...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

Reason for Living | Joni and Friends

I wonder… What’s your purpose for living?… We all ‘need’ a reason to live. Well, if you’re God's servant – and if you claim Christ as Savior, you...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

What’s at Stake? | Joni and Friends

Some things are facts of life. Tires blow out and computers crash. Teeth decay and inflation skyrockets. Ants invade picnics and people get promoted...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

How a Custom Wheelchair and God’s Love Gave Nicolly New Hope | Joni and Friends

Nicolly’s bright eyes scan the room. It’s morning and her family is one of the first to arrive at the hilltop church in Brazil where Joni and Friends...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.09.2025

To Love or Not to Love | Joni and Friends

I wheeled into the house the other day and had a very biblical experience — I felt like Jonah entering the mouth of the whale. The house stank of fish...

Joni and Friends Blog

28.08.2025

A Breathtaking View of Grace | Joni and Friends

There are times in my life when I am breathless. It may come when someone gives me a gift I never expected. At other times it comes from seeing an...

Joni and Friends Blog

28.08.2025

From Fear to Courage: My Daily Breakthrough with God’s Promises | Joni and Friends

“The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” Proverbs 18:10 People think I’m a strong person but I’m not...

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27.08.2025

The Measure of Love | Joni and Friends

If love could be measured, it would be measured by how much it gives. Would you like to know the extent to which you love your children, your spouse...

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26.08.2025

Hard Sayings of Jesus | Joni and Friends

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, never harming, always charming. Is that so? Perhaps it’s the picture occasionally painted in a child’s Sunday school lesson, but...

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

An Obi of Love | Joni and Friends

The Japanese character for love is pronounced “ai” and is pictured with the symbol for a belt found on a traditional Japanese gown known as a kimono...

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25.08.2025

A Riddle Made Plain | Joni and Friends

If you weren’t the wiser, this verse could sound like an ancient riddle that raises more questions than gives answers. Questions like, “Isn’t speaking...

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

A Living Church: Building God’s Family Through Love and Community | Joni and Friends

Some people think the church is dead. I disagree. The church is alive, particularly when it is a house, a home, and a family. But have you ever wondered...

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

Joni and Friends hosts Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee at Family Retreat | Joni and Friends

The international disability ministry Joni and Friends was honored to host First Lady of Tennessee Maria Lee at our Family Retreat in Moscow this summer...

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

Precious Moments | Joni and Friends

I read in the papers that the owner of a small original by Van Gogh had put the painting on the auction block in New York hoping it would bring twelve million...

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25.08.2025

The Fountain | Joni and Friends

One hot summer day when I was a little girl, my mother took me to the park. I remember a big fountain just over the hill from the zoo and arboretum...

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25.08.2025

Kneeling | Joni and Friends

I grew up in a little congregation where they read the Gospel, sang hymns from the heart, and kneeled in prayer. Sunday worship was serious business and I...

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

God’s Way With Pain | Joni and Friends

I don’t have to recount to you my… problems: pain that’s worsening with age, decades of sitting in a wheelchair with no use of my hands. And all these…

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

His Yoke is Easy | Joni and Friends

At times we feel that our yoke is just too heavy to bear. That’s when Jesus says, “Here, take my yoke. It’s easy. The burden is light.” Oh yeah? we think.

Joni and Friends Blog

25.08.2025

You Want Mighty | Joni and Friends

Here at our ministry, we refuse to present an image of “gentle-Jesus-meek-and-mild,” a portrait that tugs at your sentiments and pulls at your heartstrings...

Joni and Friends Blog

12.08.2025

Hyssop | Joni and Friends

In my Bible, page 717 is dog-eared and dirty from years of use. That’s because Psalm 51 is on that page, and I often flip to this beautiful passage to wrap...

Joni and Friends Blog

11.08.2025

Amazed at Jesus | Joni and Friends

Stop and think of Jesus, the Creator of billions of galaxies, each having millions of stars. Think of his innumerable supernovas, quasars, and black holes...

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11.08.2025

Don’t Doubt That God Loves You: Carlito’s Miracle | Joni and Friends

How can this be happening? Have we lost him? Carlos and Lucile watched in a panic. Parents of a healthy son with thriving careers in the Dominican Republic...

Joni and Friends Blog

10.08.2025

Studying Scripture | Joni and Friends

Jesus was astounded that people could devote their entire lives to studying Scripture and yet fail to know the one to whom Scripture was pointing...

Joni and Friends Blog

09.08.2025

So You’re Exhausted? | Joni and Friends

Here is what happened in one twenty-four hour period: After a hot, dusty afternoon of preaching to the crowds, Jesus hears the devastating...

Joni and Friends Blog

08.08.2025

Maps | Joni and Friends

For me, the best part of a trip is always getting there. When I was little, I would clamor to sit in the front seat of the car...

Joni and Friends Blog

08.08.2025

He Satisfies | Joni and Friends

Well of water ever springing, Bread of life, so rich and free, Untold wealth that never faileth, My Redeemer is to me. Hallelujah! I have found Him Whom my soul...

Joni and Friends Blog

08.08.2025

Family Retreat Is the Best Week of Our Year! | Joni and Friends

Stepping out in faith, Adam and Ashley adopted their son Robbie through the foster care system. Living with autism and carrying...

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08.08.2025

What’s Fair? | Joni and Friends

Have you ever walked into a room halfway through someone else’s argument and been asked for your opinion? It’s impossible to respond...

Joni and Friends Blog

08.08.2025

Timeless Moments | Joni and Friends

Last evening as I left my office, I was struck by a glorious sunset, a sassy kaleidoscope of vivid lilac and bright pink. I faced the color, letting it wash...

Joni and Friends Blog

08.08.2025

For Those Who Search | Joni and Friends

Mysteries have a way of enticing us at the same time as they frustrate us. Take these paradoxes of Scripture: We have a free will, yet we’re predestined...

Joni and Friends Blog

03.08.2025

God’s Plan for You | Joni and Friends

A woman whom I had been counseling shook her head and nervously said to me, “I could never live in a wheelchair totally paralyzed.” “Relax,” I replied with a...

Joni and Friends Blog

02.08.2025

God Fulfills His Purpose | Joni and Friends

Perhaps long ago when you first believed in Christ you may have heard those familiar words, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.” ...

Joni and Friends Blog

01.08.2025

Spiritual Warfare | Joni and Friends

Spiritual warfare against the world, the flesh, and the Devil is one long, continuous struggle. The battleground has front lines and rear flanks...

Joni and Friends Blog

01.08.2025

A Wheelchair, a New Friendship, and Ripples of Grace | Joni and Friends

If you could visit eight-year-old Diana at the compound in Lusaka, Zambia where she lives, her infectious personality would outshine the struggles she faces...

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Limitations | Joni and Friends

Mark Rediscovered Connection, Community, and a New Hope in Christ | Joni and Friends

Be Joyful in Hope | Joni and Friends

Assurance | Joni and Friends

Axel’s Miracle: Healing and Hope at Joni’s House Nicaragua | Joni and Friends

Conditional Promises | Joni and Friends

Habakkuk | Joni and Friends

Reason for Living | Joni and Friends

What’s at Stake? | Joni and Friends

How a Custom Wheelchair and God’s Love Gave Nicolly New Hope | Joni and Friends

To Love or Not to Love | Joni and Friends

A Breathtaking View of Grace | Joni and Friends

From Fear to Courage: My Daily Breakthrough with God’s Promises | Joni and Friends

The Measure of Love | Joni and Friends

Hard Sayings of Jesus | Joni and Friends

An Obi of Love | Joni and Friends

A Riddle Made Plain | Joni and Friends

A Living Church: Building God’s Family Through Love and Community | Joni and Friends

Joni and Friends hosts Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee at Family Retreat | Joni and Friends

Precious Moments | Joni and Friends

The Fountain | Joni and Friends

Kneeling | Joni and Friends

God’s Way With Pain | Joni and Friends

His Yoke is Easy | Joni and Friends

You Want Mighty | Joni and Friends

Hyssop | Joni and Friends

Amazed at Jesus | Joni and Friends

Don’t Doubt That God Loves You: Carlito’s Miracle | Joni and Friends

Studying Scripture | Joni and Friends

So You’re Exhausted? | Joni and Friends

Maps | Joni and Friends

He Satisfies | Joni and Friends

Family Retreat Is the Best Week of Our Year! | Joni and Friends

What’s Fair? | Joni and Friends

Timeless Moments | Joni and Friends

For Those Who Search | Joni and Friends

God’s Plan for You | Joni and Friends

God Fulfills His Purpose | Joni and Friends

Spiritual Warfare | Joni and Friends

A Wheelchair, a New Friendship, and Ripples of Grace | Joni and Friends

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