The following resource is from desiring God.org.

Would you pray with me please?

Lord who is sufficient for these things, these are weighty, weighty eternal matters. If the sun

shall set you free and only the sun can set us free.

We will be free indeed.

I pray that you would protect us from the devil who's going to take a hit here.

I pray that you would open the hearts of Jewish people and Gentiles.

I pray that there would be a great liberating effect of your word. You will know the truth and the truth will make you liberated.

And I pray that I would not be the aroma of death to death but of life to life.

Come Holy Spirit, I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

You can live in an evangelical Bible believing,

Bible-loving, evangelical Bible believing, loving, world, so secure and kind of bubble-like

that you can almost be oblivious of the kinds of radical

indictments and criticisms of the Bible that are commonplace in religion departments across the country and universities and that are fairly commonplace, not far from here in mainline churches in classrooms. in this I love living in this world like it's a great place to live where we live

inside the evangelical Bible loving Bible believing that's the greatest place in the

world to live I moved outside of it for three years in Germany and I remember how pointed and

vivid and powerful and even painful one afternoon was when some of this criticism was

spoken with such boldness and brazenness and indignation by a scholar.

There was a seminar on Psalms that I was in, in German,

and we were discussing, and it was a, people gathered from around Europe to talk about the Psalms and one person

began to quote from a Psalm and I don't remember which one it was, but a scholar across the table became agitated and blurted out and I remember it in German because it just went like a

sword to me. He said,

...