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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: COVID-19 Vaccine | Lordship of Christ, Moral Obligation & Loving Your Neighbor

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore talk about vaccines and applying biblical and theological wisdom to the COVID-19 vaccine specifically. Do Christians have a moral and biblical obligation to take the vaccine? What does loving your neighbor mean? How do we apply the doctrine of law and gospel to vaccines?   The Spiritual Problem at the Heart of Christian Vaccine Refusal | David French: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-spiritual-problem-at-the-heart No Divine Law Equals No Moral Obligation | Jared Longshore: https://founders.org/2020/12/10/no-divine-law-equals-no-moral-obligation/ You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-lawsuit.html The PREP Act and COVID-19: Limiting Liability for Medical Countermeasures: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10443 The Law & The Gospel book | Ernie Reisinger: https://press.founders.org/shop/the-law-and-the-gospel/ The Institute of Public Theology: www.instituteofpublictheology.org By What Standard? God's World...God's Rules: https://press.founders.org/shop/by-what-standard-gods-world-gods-rules/ Strong and Courageous: Following Jesus Amid the Rise of America's New Religion | https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/ Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://press.founders.org/fam/ Watch #WieldTheSword | https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ The Sword & The Trowel: https://founders.org/the-sword-the-trowel/   Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/   All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Sword and the Trial, the podcast of Founders Ministries.

0:03.0

Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches.

0:06.9

I'm Jared Longshore.

0:07.9

I'm Tom Askell.

0:08.9

Thanks so much for listening to The Sword and the Trial today.

0:11.1

Happy to have you with us here and hope that you are greatly encouraged by this podcast.

0:14.9

A big thank you to those who are a part of the FAM that is our Founders Alliance membership. We're very grateful for those of you who support us,

0:21.0

and we see that there are people joining the FAM regularly, and we rejoice that you were with us

0:25.5

to build and to fight, and thank you for your prayers as we try to press on doing good. If you're not

0:30.1

a part of the FAM, you can go to Founders.org, and you can find out what it means to be a part of the fan. Yeah, we also wanna let you know about

0:38.0

the Institute of Public Theology,

0:39.8

and we're excited about that.

0:41.2

We're looking forward in April.

0:42.8

We've got a goal of opening registration for classes.

0:46.1

They're already scheduled.

0:47.0

Tom Nettles will be teaching a class in the fall.

0:49.5

I'll be teaching class in the fall.

0:50.9

You're teaching one in the spring.

0:52.5

Voddy Balkam, who you know has had a real

0:54.9

serious health crisis over the last month or so, is doing better. And I was able to see him last

1:01.3

week. I was up at Jacksonville. It was just such a sweet time and it's so good to lay eyes on him,

1:06.3

you know, and just I have some time with him. And God's doing incredible things. I mean,

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