Posts Tagged ‘Plague’
Biblically, What Can and Can’t We Say about COVID-19?
One of the tremendous benefits of a crisis is that it forces people to think. We have a strong tendency when things are good to go on “autopilot,” become absorbed with our routine, live for frivolous pleasures, and distract ourselves to death. But when business as usual suddenly comes to a halt, the game is…
Read MoreA Journal of the Plague Year
What follows are excerpts from Daniel Dafoe’s book, A Journal of the Plague Year. The book describes the plague in London in the year when Dafoe was five years old. Thus, though it appears an eyewitness account, some consider the book “historical fiction.” Most acknowledge that Dafoe got his facts straight, so the story vividly…
Read MorePlagues in the Bible
The Corona Virus Pandemic is bigger than politics and bigger than any one nation. It is what God is doing in our world. What God is doing is bigger than anything you will hear on the news. He is working an eternal work, to bring us to Him, to bring us to repentance. So, from…
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