Especially for Dads

After finding John Piper's blog and the talk by John Knight posted there, Mr. Knight was kind enough to contact me personally and, among other things, tell me about a second talk that I wanted to let you know about. Pastor Kempton Turner, one of the pastors for youth at Bethlehem Baptist Church, is the father of a six year old boy with multiple disabilities. He spoke to a group of dads of special needs children at Grace Church in Minnesota on March 18. You can hear his story here.

Someone posted on Twitter the other day that they were looking for resources for special needs dads, so I know this is a real need. Not being a dad, but being married to one, I know there are different needs for fathers than there are for mothers when it comes to parenting our kids. I hope this talk will be helpful to many of you.


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Sovereignty
Inclusion Series starts here

Sovereignty

In looking around for some other blogs to follow I found desiringGod (from John Piper's ministry.) This article by Abraham Piper which takes my own posts on inclusion one pretty uncomfortable step further. We like to think of disabilities as "mistakes"...unfortunate occurrences as our children are developing. To recognize that God is in control of these "mistakes" is shocking and controversial. Yet we want God to be in control of everything else. The amazing thing is that His sovereignty is total whether we can accept it or not. He can use "special needs" to teach all of us more about Him, and to make us all aware of our great need for Him, a need that we all share.

If you have time to listen to the testimony of the dad's talk that this article is summarized from, it will give you new perspective on being a special needs parent.

My earlier series on inclusion starts here.