Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast.

Brand new this month in the Christian Heritage Series at Cannon Press is

Jeremiah Burrows, the rare jewel of Christian contentment,

with a fantastic introduction from Nancy Wilson.

Burrows, being a wise pastor, works the teaching of contentment into every possible nook

and cranny in the Christian life.

If you want to read something to make you feel you have arrived, this is not the book for you.

Burrows understands that contentment is a mystery

and cannot be taught lightly. It requires diligent application if we are to say with Paul that we have learned the secret of being content in all circumstances.

From Nancy Wilson's introduction.

Get Jeremiah Burrows, the rare jewel of Christian contentment

at cannon press.com. The nature of reasonable doubt, June 3rd, 2020. Introduction

So let me begin with the part that a lot of people are going to want to ignore.

They will have to ignore it in order to say things like, how dare you?

But the need to say, how dare you will be so pressing

that ignore it they will.

Here's the obvious point and I think it is what pretty much everyone sees.

We should have no problem whatever with the arrest of Derek Chauvin or with the murder

charges. I have no problem with him being arrested and charged. Where the consensus breaks down

is seen in the fact that I think he ought to be tried, fairly, and an open court,

while a good part of the country is acting as though a trial has already happened.

The mob has proceeded straight to sentencing, which is not how our process ought to work. When you proceed straight to sentencing, which is not how our process ought to work.

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