Texts for Disability services:
OLD TESTAMENT
- Exodus 4:10-16 -- God makes people with disabilities
- Leviticus 21:16-23 -- disabilities in the old covenant
- I Samuel 16:7 -- God values what is in the heart
- II Samuel 9 -- the King and a disabled man
- I Kings 17-19 -- Elijah / depression
- Job 29:7-17 -- the righteous and disabilities
- Psalm 31:9-13 -- paranoid depression / psychosis
- Psalm 42 & 43 -- depression
- Isaiah 35 -- the future of people with disabilities
- Isaiah 52:14-53:3 -- Christ knows aversion/rejection
- Isaiah 58:6-12 -- care for the disadvantaged
NEW TESTAMENT
Synoptic accounts of Jesus' healing people with disabilities:
- Matthew 11:1-6 -- how Christ is to be recognized
- Luke 14:12-24 -- people with disabilities at the Kingdom "Banquet"
- John 5:1-15 -- Jesus at Bethesda
- John 9 -- what it means to be blind
- I Corinthians 1:26-31 -- God chooses the lowly
- I Corinthians 12 -- all have gifts
- II Corinthians 9:6-14 -- each contributes something to the rest
