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Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada is founder and chief executive officer of Joni and Friends in Agoura Hills, California.
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I Sing My Way Through Pain: Three Lessons in Resilient Joy

I Sing My Way Through Pain

Three Lessons in Resilient Joy

Feb 28, 2023
God rarely gives us the life we imagined and wanted. Suffering of some kind is just around the corner. But if we’ll trust him, God has buried precious joys in our fields of sorrow.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Feb 28, 2023
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Paralyzed and Blessed: My Unlikely Path to Happiness

Paralyzed and Blessed

My Unlikely Path to Happiness

Feb 26, 2022
We are blessed, not when we have everything going for us, but when all of us is going for God. Our deepest happiness will be found in the trenches of holiness.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Feb 26, 2022
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Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering

Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering

Sep 7, 2021
What does God allow that he hates? Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on a sentence that changed everything for her suffering.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Sep 7, 2021
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When My Quadriplegia Ends: What Makes Me Long for Heaven

When My Quadriplegia Ends

What Makes Me Long for Heaven

May 31, 2021
We will not endure earthly suffering if we do not love how that suffering, when experienced in faith, is preparing us for another world.
Joni Eareckson Tada
May 31, 2021
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Paralysis Was His Good Plan: How Predestination Changed My Suffering

Paralysis Was His Good Plan

How Predestination Changed My Suffering

Oct 12, 2020
Some might be tempted to shy away from God’s sovereignty over our pain. But to many who feel submerged in suffering, it is a rock beneath their feet.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Oct 12, 2020
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Broken to Comfort the Broken: How Quadriplegia Prepared Me to Carry Others

Broken to Comfort the Broken

How Quadriplegia Prepared Me to Carry Others

Apr 20, 2020
In our suffering, God not only refines us, humbles us, and teaches us to rely on him. He also makes us the hands of his comfort for others.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Apr 20, 2020
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My Suffering Has Not Defined Me

My Suffering Has Not Defined Me

Nov 12, 2018
Christ lost his life so that you might find yours, so begin each day asking him to show you the “you” he meant for you to be.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Nov 12, 2018
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Beware of Running Too Hard: Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self

Beware of Running Too Hard

Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self

Mar 10, 2018
What would I say to my 30-year-old self? Slow down and love Jesus more. And prove that love by pursuing holiness.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Mar 10, 2018
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Your Hospital Visit Is Coming

Your Hospital Visit Is Coming

Apr 16, 2016
Come hell or high water, I determined that this hospital would be, well, a gymnasium for my soul, a proving ground for my faith, and a mission field for God.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Apr 16, 2016
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Conference Message

Hope: The Best of Things

Desiring God 2005 National Conference

Oct 8, 2005
In this message, Joni Eareckson Tada discusses the place of hope in suffering under the sovereignty of God.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Oct 8, 2005

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