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As promised, there is a brand new release in the Christian Heritage Series. George Herbert's collection of poetry, The Temple, with a fantastic introduction by 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

titled The Temple.

In this short but beautiful collection of poetry,

Herbert devised 116 new poetic forms to capture his experiences of awe,

sorrow, glory, turmoil, repentance, and heart-rending joy, all of it dedicated to God.

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

of his poetic powers.

Get George Herbert's The Temple with a forward from John Piper today at cannon 2020. Introduction

One of the things that few people seem to grasp is that we are trying to deal simultaneously with two very different but equally contagious phenomena.

The first is the coronavirus itself,

obviously, and the second is the panicked overreaction to it.

If you think the virus is no problem at all,

you need to have your head examined,

and if you think there's no panic then you should

go try to buy some toilet paper. During a time when such contagion is spreading the

way it is it makes perfect sense to me why we would look at the scans at someone hacking and coughing in a crowded space.

Where's your public spirit man would appear to be an appropriate thought for the hour?

But when someone is freaking out on Facebook, spreading the contagion of the sum total of his fears,

...