More than Thoughts and Candles
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
As long as there is sin and suffering in the world, the gospel will be relevant.
In the wake of the tragic MSU shooting, Christians must remember that the hope of healing lies in the truth of the gospel.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Greetings and Salutations. This is Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung. |
| 0:13.0 | Today I'm reading my latest world opinions article entitled More Than Thoughts and Candles. |
| 0:21.7 | In the face of tragedy, believers really do know what the world needs to know. |
| 0:27.0 | It certainly wasn't the first deadly shooting on one of our college campuses, |
| 0:31.2 | but this one just happened to be the college campus I know best. |
| 0:34.7 | On Monday night, while I was taking my nine-year-old to a Hornets game for his birthday, |
| 0:39.5 | my phone erupted with texts from my friends in East Lansing. There was an active shooter on the |
| 0:44.9 | campus of Michigan State University. We've all seen these stories before. Maybe your school or |
| 0:50.8 | child's school has faced this grief already. It was a little over four years ago |
| 0:55.1 | when a similar tragedy took place at UNC Charlotte, just 20 minutes from where I now live. |
| 1:00.4 | On Monday, it happened at MSU, three dead, five seriously wounded, and a whole community in mourning. |
| 1:07.8 | Before moving to Charlotte, I pastor to Nice Lansing for 13 years. |
| 1:11.4 | If you've never lived in a small city with a major university, |
| 1:14.5 | you may not be able to fathom how virtually everyone and everything can be connected to a single school. |
| 1:21.9 | I didn't go to Michigan State, but it was hard to pastor university reformformed Church without bleeding green and white. |
| 1:29.3 | I could hear Spartan Stadium from my home and see the blimp overhead for big games. |
| 1:34.3 | So as I followed the news on Monday night into Tuesday morning, I knew all the buildings and all the streets. |
| 1:39.3 | I heard from friends with children locked in the basement of the library, |
| 1:43.3 | from friends who opened their home for college students to sleep on the floor so they could get off campus, |
| 1:48.3 | from friends with relatives who were running across campus in the dark |
| 1:52.1 | because the police told them the shooter could be nearing their location. |
| 1:56.5 | East Lansing is not the softest soil for gospel ministry, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Clearly Reformed, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Clearly Reformed and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.