We are in unfamiliar and unprecedented times, aren’t we? As we hear growing news of lockdowns, quarantines, travel bans, and cancelations, isn’t it good to know that our God is sovereign? As R.C. Sproul said, “If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.” But this virus too, is within God’s sovereignty, and each of his promises remains intact.
(Yesterday on the blog: Never Read a Bible Verse (and Never Listen To a Sermon Clip))
Here’s an account of the time John Piper was able to preach the gospel to death row inmates at Louisiana’s Angola prison. “In Angola’s chapel, before eight hundred prisoners, Piper preached from John 6 on Jesus’s feeding of the five thousand and his walk on water. ‘I preached with all my heart to those who could fit in the chapel,’ Piper recounted later. ‘I pulled no punches.’ Many other prisoners watched on closed-circuit television, including Bordelon and his fellow death-row inmates.”
Is the Nuclear Family a Mistake?
Colin Smothers writes about David Brook’s article that ran last
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