Here's Pastor John Piper praying for his hometown, the city of Minneapolis, where he's lived and served for decades.

We pray that the compounding of sorrows will not compound our sins, but send us desperate and running to the risen Savior, our only hope, Jesus Christ.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing

Forgiveness, for Wednesday, June 2, 2020.

I'm Dana Gresh.

As many of us emerge from sheltering in place to protect ourselves and others. From COVID-19, people have already been expressing fear and stress, sometimes deep, grief,

and sadly, conflict as opinions and sometimes tempers are flaring. And now we have a nation embroiled

in yet another grief and conflict, as the city of Minneapolis and other major urban areas have been set aflame

protesting the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of a police officer

who was detaining him by force. Many are weeping, and not just over this death, but others like it.

And still others are joining in prayer to heal the brokenness of a nation being seemingly

devoured by hatred, disagreement, and strong discourse.

And Nancy, our hearts, you and I have been grieving and texting over the last few days,

so we're preempting today's

program for a very special broadcast to consider how are God's people to be thinking and

praying right now in this hard time. Yeah, Dana, it's words fail. We don't have words for some of

the horrific experiences. hearing about the images

we're seeing on the news. It's interesting. I've been immersed in the Gospels in my quiet time

over the last few months, and so many passages have come to mind where we see Jesus coming from this pure, glorious, exalted place in heaven where there is no sin, no pain, no tears, no sorrow, no conflict.

And then he comes down to this earth.

And there's chaos.

And you see, Jesus has come, and he has come now in his people to minister

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