Welcome to a new week on the Ask Pastor John podcast with John Biper.

Pastor John, you were in Vancouver recently teaching on first Peter in a look at the book

Regional Conference at Westside Church.

And it seems like things really went well while you're at the conference.

And there was a lot going on in the news, certainly, as you look back on that trip and

over what you taught.

Do you have any reflections to share with us here on the Ask Pastor John podcast?

The earthquake in Nepal happened while I was there, which for me personally, and I think

for others as well, put the second half of our study, it happened on, we knew about

it as we began Saturday morning, it put the second half of our study under a cloud

of very serious reality.

In other words, no game playing here with first Peter because first Peter, I had said to

them Friday night, is a book that more than any other book in the New Testament is pervasive

with suffering.

It focuses on teaches about prepares people for suffering.

And so we were talking about some of the most serious kinds of losses in the world with

this enormous tragedy unfolding, which as we speak right now, has about 5,000 people

killed, 9,000 injured, 8 million affected, 1 million children in urgent need.

And of course, the ripple effects from all of those are enormous.

And I think what I want to say, Tony, in response to that event and that moment in my life

and that seminar is that there is a kind of sequence to the responses that Christians should

have, reflective Christians, especially, if we get the sequence wrong or the spirit of the

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