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Mortification of Spin

Suicide: What is the Christian to think?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4879 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Suicide is a troubling topic to examine - delicate and disturbing, one must speak carefully about it, especially with those left in its confusing wake. Common questions asked are: Is suicide an unforgivable sin? Could a true Believer take their own life? As a pastor, should I address suicide at the funeral? Carl, Aimee, Todd (…and Thomas Aquinas!), avoid pat answers and offer helpful ways of thinking founded in Biblical truth.We are giving away several pairs of event tickets to either, God Has Spoken, Reformation: Recovering the Essence of the Gospel (Philadelphia), or The Faithful Shepherd: Pastors Conference. Enter Now!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count.

0:21.7

With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:30.6

Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.

0:46.9

This is Amy Bird, and I am here with my not normal but usual co-hosts Todd Pruitt and Carl Truman.

0:56.3

And I thought we'd start, you know, we got a somber subject to talk about.

0:59.5

I thought, let's lighten things up a little bit here and have a little fun.

1:03.1

I thought I'd give us some entertainment for the beginning.

1:06.8

I was listening to Carl's first talk that he gave to the Master's Seminary on the Reformation.

1:14.1

And I just noticed, you know, there's some words that we know Carl says wrong, you know, like contravacy and schedule.

1:21.4

But there's other words that when we are under the burden of having to listen to him for longer periods of time.

1:29.0

Under the burden.

1:31.3

We realize, wow, he says that wrong too.

1:35.6

So I thought maybe I'd flash a couple words for Carl to read for us,

1:40.5

words that Carl needs to be corrected and on his English pronunciation.

1:46.3

I like it.

1:47.4

I'd like to say first of all, it's actually a privilege to listen to me.

1:50.6

Billions of people have lived and died in eras where they were unable to listen to me.

1:55.7

That's you live in an awesibly privileged time.

1:59.4

Yeah.

1:59.6

This gratitude is frankly

2:01.1

hurtful, but I'll

2:02.6

let it pass.

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