Pastor livestreams sermon three days before his death: Living for the One who died for us
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
“I believe that all is well and that it is well with my soul,” said Rev. Dr. Don Hampton, pastor of New Vision Community Church in Shreveport, Louisiana. This was part of a livestreamed Sunday message he sent from his bed in a hospital isolation ward. He added: “I keep a praise handy in my heart. I keep a word and I just continue to try to do the Lord’s will even from a hospital bed.”
Two days later, he learned he had COVID-19. The following night, he was dead.
He is just one of the religious leaders who are making news by their lives and now their deaths.
They died in the Lord, and they did not die alone.
God’s children are never alone, a fact Good Friday makes clear.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of The Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.8 | Forum and featuring Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:11.8 | Hi, this is Jim Denison, the Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article special edition |
| 0:15.7 | for Friday, April 10th, 2020. Psalm 23-4, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will |
| 0:22.2 | fear no evil, for you are with me. Reverend Dr. Don Hampton, pastor of New Vision Community |
| 0:27.5 | Church in Shreveport, Louisiana made this statement. I believe that all is well and that it is |
| 0:32.5 | well with my soul. This was part of a live stream Sunday message he sent from his bed in a hospital isolation ward. |
| 0:39.1 | He added these words. I keep a praise handy in my heart. I keep a word and I just continue to try |
| 0:44.4 | to do the Lord's will even from a hospital bed. Two days later, he learned he had COVID-19. |
| 0:49.9 | The following night, he was dead. He is just one of the religious leaders who are making news by their lives and now their deaths. |
| 0:57.2 | Another is Reverend Franco Menardi, who served for 70 years as the parish priest at Ozanotaro, |
| 1:02.7 | a farming town in Italy before he died of coronavirus at the age of 94. |
| 1:07.4 | Another is Sister Maria Ortencia Turritere, one of six nuns killed by COVID-19 in a convent in northern Italy. |
| 1:14.5 | She founded missions in the Philippines and Ivory Coast, then led her order and its many schools in Chile. |
| 1:20.0 | They died in the Lord, and they did not die alone. |
| 1:25.2 | There are many fears associated with the coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:28.3 | We fear getting it and dying of it. |
| 1:30.3 | We fear that our families and friends will get it and die of it. |
| 1:33.3 | We fear losing our jobs and lifestyles. |
| 1:35.3 | We fear that this will become another great recession or worse. |
| 1:38.3 | We fear that there will not be a normal on the other side of the pandemic whenever that comes. |
| 1:43.3 | And many of us fear facing this disease |
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