When Towers Fall
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When tragedy strikes, we're driven to ask questions—and often the wrong ones. Today, R.C. Sproul explores Jesus' surprising response to those seeking understanding after a calamity.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard enough to understand how human beings could be so inhumane and so wicked in their |
| 0:06.2 | treatment of other human beings. |
| 0:09.3 | But how could God allow these things to happen? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, those questions are the questions that every generation seeks to answer. |
| 0:18.3 | And the people in Jesus' day were no different. |
| 0:32.6 | When tragedy comes, whether to our own family or to our nation, our minds can quickly wonder, why me? Why us? Or if someone we know or a celebrity experiences loss, we can begin to question, |
| 0:40.6 | what did they do? What sin did they commit to deserve that? Well, the people of Jesus Day |
| 0:46.6 | were no different. Hello, I'm Lee Webb, and thank you for joining us for this Monday |
| 0:51.1 | edition of Renewing Your Mind. Today and tomorrow, R.C. Sprole |
| 0:54.9 | will consider some of the hard sayings of Jesus, those texts that are either hard to understand |
| 1:00.9 | or hard to believe. Dr. Sprole actually had four different series dedicated to these hard |
| 1:06.5 | sayings, and all of them were brought together for the hardcover book, Hard Sayings, Understanding Difficult |
| 1:12.7 | Passages of Scripture. |
| 1:14.6 | And we will send it to you along with digital access to the Hard Sayings of Jesus series |
| 1:19.3 | when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight |
| 1:25.9 | tomorrow. |
| 1:27.8 | Well, when tragedy strikes, we're often quick to speak of innocent victims. |
| 1:33.1 | But when people had questions about some local tragedies in Jesus Day, |
| 1:37.6 | his perspective was very different from ours. |
| 1:40.8 | Here's RC. |
| 1:50.3 | We're going to turn our attention to some of the hard sayings of Jesus. What we call a hard saying is a saying that is either difficult for us in the sense that |
| 1:58.8 | we perceive it as being harsh or severe, or we can call it |
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