Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the sword and the trial.

Today, Pastor Tom and I talk about the most recent assassination attempt on the president

and then some other things that are happening in our nation as well and in our culture

and just how Christians and especially how pastors ought to be thinking about these things,

how the church can be prepared for some of the difficult things that we may face in the future of our nation.

I hope it's a helpful conversation for you.

Take a listen. Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of founders'

ministries and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local churches.

I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. Today's episode is brought to you by Lake Yale Baptist

Conference Center. Today, Pastor Tom brought to you by Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center.

Today, Pastor Tom and I want to talk about things that are happening in our timeline,

different things that are happening in the culture, especially what happened over the past week,

and that is the yet again attempted assassination of our president Donald Trump.

Yeah, in so many ways, it seems like we're living in dystopian times.

And if we're not careful, that can become normalized and we can become desensitized to it

and fail to consider as seriously and weigh as heavily as we ought to, just the day in which we live.

And the sons of Issaqar were commended because they understood the times and knew what Israel

ought to do.

And we ought to aspire to that same kind of wisdom.

Jesus rebuked the Jews in his day because he said, you see the heavens, you know, the signs of the weather, but you don't

understand the day that has dawned upon you right now by his own presence. And so we should

be thinking about, okay, what is, what's going on? What do these things mean? How should we think

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