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Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God: Resources from John Piper is unavailable, but you can change that!

Disabilities break into life in various forms: as the product of genetic misalignments in the womb, as the result of tragic and regrettable accidents, as the byproducts of infectious disease, and from the degenerative effects of old age. They affect joints, bones, nervous systems, lungs, hearts, and brains. And even in the United States — a country that leads the world in medical innovation and...

God has a good purpose behind the suffering, and his good purpose is intended to influence more than the one who is disabled. So how does this biblical truth land on those who are directly affected by disability? It was during the preaching of the following two sermons in 2011 that Piper interviewed John Knight. Knight is the father of Paul, a teenage son who was born blind and remains blind to this day (which is just one of his many other physical and cognitive struggles). Knight candidly walks