On Decem­ber 23, the Inter­na­tional House of Prayer lost a dear friend as Derek Loux was united with the Lord after a fatal car crash in Nebraska when his vehi­cle lost con­trol on black ice. Com­ing home from a min­istry trip in Col­orado, Derek was away learn­ing how to fur­ther care for young chil­dren who have been vic­tims of sex traf­fick­ing. In the last sev­eral years, Derek and his wife have taken the lead in the adop­tion move­ment by tak­ing the unwanted and dis­abled chil­dren. Their first-​​born child, Josiah, who was dis­abled, died at 2.5 years old to their dev­as­ta­tion. Estab­lish­ing the Josiah Fund and the Orphan Jus­tice Cen­ter was an over­flow of their passion.

While death’s sting is with us, I want to remem­ber what inspi­ra­tion he gave. Below, are some media links so you can expe­ri­ence the gifts he gave us.

Spir­i­tual War­fare, A Will­ing Heart

Liz and I were in Kansas City and heard him speak at IHOP’s Spir­i­tual War­fare con­fer­ence on Peter. Open­ing up how Jesus estab­lishes dis­ci­ples in love amidst fail­ure, he pre­sented Jesus’ heart for the weak and broken.

Excerpts from Paper Reli­gion

Paper Reli­gion was his Derek’s sec­ond release at the Inter­na­tional House of Prayer in Kansas City. Here’s three tracks from this album.

IHOP Acronym Song

This song and imper­son­ation of Dave Sliker is great! IHOP has an enor­mous amount of acronyms and it’s hard to keep up with all of them. Derek’s song com­pletely illus­trates how con­fus­ing it is. In a sep­a­rate video, Mike Bickle shares some of his thoughts about Derek and his fam­ily on his video blog.

Derek’s Funeral

Over the last sev­eral weeks, I’ve been search­ing for the video of his funeral. On the fam­ily blog, René has posted the media. Here is the video of his ser­vice.

Shel­ley Paul­son, a fan­tas­tic pho­tog­ra­pher, shot pho­tog­ra­phy from the ser­vice and cre­ated a slide show.