Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast. This audio is brought to you by

Cannon Press. Before we get started I wanted to recommend a book to you called

The Household and the War for the Cosmos by CR Wiley, recovering a

Christian vision for the family. It has a forward by Nancy Piercy and a preface by Anthony Esselin. The household is not just a shelter from a war zone,

it is the command center from which we launch our attacks.

It's this vision of the world,

with the Christian family at the heart that modern parents desperately need to recover.

You can find the household in the war for the Cosmos by CR Wiley at cannonpress.com and listen to the

to the

to the podcast this is episode 181 I'm pretty sure it's 181.

Yes it's 181 that is true.

Welcome to the podcastodcast 181.

So I want to speak for a few minutes

about the situation we're in.

I've told our people at Christchurch a number of times that these are times of tumultuous mercies.

I believe that God is a God who delivers his people.

If you read through Psalm 125, you see that God's people are surrounded by

the mountains and God would be the mountains that surround his people. That's Psalm 125 in earlier in the Psalms the angel

of the Lord and camps around those who fear him. God loves to deliver his people just in time. He loves to bring them right to the brink.

Abraham has the knife raised in the air, about to slay his son Isaac, and that's when God

stops him. And then it became proverbial in Israel on the mount of the Lord it will be provided.

At just the right time it will be provided.

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