Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast.

As promised, there is a brand new release in the Christian Heritage Series,

George Herbert's The Temple, with a fantastic forward from John Piper.

Although he was a pastor of a small remote church in Elizabethan England, George Herbert came to fame because of a small collection of poems called the temple.

In this short but beautiful collection of poetry, Herbert devised 116 new poetic forms to capture his experience of awe, sorrow, glory,

turmoil, repentance, and heart-rending joy.

All of it dedicated to God, not man.

In this book we have a picture of the full range

of human experience and emotion, felt by a man being sanctified by God and describing

it with all his poetic powers.

Get George Herbert's The Temple with a foreword from John Piper today at cannon press.com. Yes God.

God.

God don't never change he's got.

Welcome to a podcast, episode 145.

The podcast, not just a podcast, this is the podcast, episode 145.

So of course, we're still in the season of COVID, and so I've got to talk about COVID a little bit

more.

One of the things I've noticed is that people don't think carefully when they're in the middle of a crisis.

If you want to think during a crisis, you have to train yourself to think when you're not in crisis. You can't have your house catch on fire and then

suddenly learn all the things you should have known. There are certain things you have to prepare for beforehand.

If you live on the beach and you might have to save somebody from drowning,

you need to learn how to swim before there's a crisis. You need to learn how to put out a fire before

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