Tag: pandemic
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The Just Shall Live by Faith (Habakkuk Part 1)
Believe it or not, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty is actually an encouraging truth and much to be preferred over the idea that calamities are random events that God neither foresees nor controls.
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The Visit
The plague has visited my tentAnd left the marks of its short stay:My lungs are not what they once were;I breathe no longer easily. No child of God remains unscathedBy trials common to mankind.We all must kneel to Him and prayFor mercy everyday. Copyright: Dennis M. Cortes 2021 Photo by Mulyadi on Unsplash
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Covid-19
The world is on its knees, sobbingLike a woman bereaved of child.Vicious bats fly all around,Squeaking, screeching, with delightIn the blackness of the night,Save for some faint gleams of redSpilling from the bloody moonAll but hidden by the cloudsEnveloping the world. Copyright by Dennis M. Cortes 2021 (Photo by Todd Cravens on Unsplash)
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Faith in Times of Pandemic
Habakkuk 3:16 to 19. I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the […]
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The Athenian Plague of 430 BC
While reading Thucydides’ On Justice, Power and Human Nature (Selections from The History of the Peloponessian War), I came across his description of a terrible plague that struck Athens in 430 B.C. What made a great impression on me was the similarities between that plague and the present pandemic, and the possibility that that plague […]
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One with Wuhan
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” (Romans 5:12) The air has suddenly become deadlyand breathing more precious than ever.Closeness has been suspended;distancing is the norm.The news is not uplifting;fear is on the rise.Businesses are closing;people […]
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