1. The Church's hymns help us see our own world from another—and perhaps not so different—vantage point that illuminates the impact of the work of Christ and the general providing and protecting activity of our Creator in our lives.
  2. God does not take us out of a world of evils of various kinds, but He does stand beside us and accompany us, as a shepherd accompanies his sheep, through valleys of shadows of all kinds.
  3. God’s goal in all this is that His call to repentance impacts our lives by turning us to find peace and joy in Christ.
  4. New normals are always sneaking up on us. Preachers ignore them to their peril and the peril of our hearers.
  5. Twenty-first century North American believers face challenges unique in the history of God’s people, for we have an abundance of the material gifts of God unparalleled in human history.

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