The King’s Court Jester

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt discuss the tragedy of suffering in a fallen world. While recognizing the reality of natural evil (such as illness and earthquakes), the conversation focuses on moral evil in which human beings inflict on one another intentional malice. The truth of the matter is that we live in a world where evil things happen. Mentioned on The King’s Court JesterA Place for Weakness: Preparing Yourself for Suffering

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0:00.0	Welcome to the
0:02.0	Girls are Flipping their hair back
0:04.0	You see them looking so perfect
0:08.0	Like from another other planet
0:11.0	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin,
0:13.0	a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:16.0	I'm your host, Carl Truman,
0:18.0	Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary,
0:28.1	pastor of Cornerstone OPC Church in Ambler, and opponent of beautiful people everywhere. And I'm Todd Pruitt. I'm the pastor at Church of the Savior in Wayne, Pennsylvania, desperately wishing I had a line to follow up as good as Carl's. So I'm not even going to try.
0:48.0	I thought you were the pastor of outreach to bald people, Todd, in the Wayne area.
0:51.9	I could do that. I could do that. But see, the thing is, because I still have sufficient air on my head that people can recognize it, I'm afraid that the bald people would just think I would be being, you know, bragging or that sort of thing. It's sort of like being 10 pounds over. I'm not even going to go to the weight thing, so just forget about that.
1:11.2	I'd like to talk about weight, actually, Todd. That appeals. I want to reflect today on suffering.
1:16.8	Now, of course, my friend Todd, being the celebrity pastor of a megachurch, for Todd's suffering
1:21.8	is having to squeeze into those skinny jeans. Absolutely.
1:25.5	20 years on and 40 pounds on from when really his doctor would have recommended that he last
1:30.3	get into that.
1:31.3	Or if somebody takes one of my parking spots.
1:33.3	Or somebody takes one of your parking spots.
1:35.3	Yes.
1:36.3	Yeah.
1:37.3	Or yes.
1:38.3	Before we start talking about suffering though, it's perhaps worth making a couple of distinctions in order
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