• Where is God in a Coronavirus World? Watch RZIM (Ravi Zacharias International Ministries) President Michael Ramsden and Professor John Lennox discuss Lennox’s new book, Where is God in a Coronavirus World? The event includes a Q&A.
• Is God Sovereign Over Viruses? Gene Veith writes “The fallen world is a hard place to live. And yet, God’s sovereignty mitigates that world. Though the bad things that happen are in accord with His sovereign will, He continues to love His creation. The beauties, satisfactions, and pleasures of life are the deeper signs of God’s sovereignty.”
• Where Can We Turn in Fearful Times? Leonardo De Chirico writes “In order to deal with fear without succumbing to it, we need to fear God and God alone.”
• How Should Christians Respond to Times of Suffering? When crisis strikes, people often say, “I’ll never be the same after this.” The real danger would be that we’re left exactly the same after the dust has settled. From the Ligonier livestream event Made in the Image of God, Sinclair Ferguson examines how Christians should respond to the suffering of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Do We Really Want to Go Back to Normal? Trevin Wax writes “The question we should ask, then, is not when will we get back to normal but should we want to go back to normal? And the follow-up question: What should the new normal be?”  

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• What Was God’s Purpose in the Cross?  R.C. Sproul writes “Your salvation, from start to finish, rests on the sovereign decree of God, who decided, in His grace, to have mercy on you, not because of anything He saw in you that demanded it, but for the love of the Son.”
• What Does the Bible Say About the Moment You Die? In this episode of the Gospel Coalition Q&A, H. B. Charles Jr. and Ligon Duncan discuss what the Bible teaches about the moment believers die.
• Is Jesus Weeping for Us in Heaven? Kevin DeYoung writes “We do not need Jesus to weep any more. We need him to reign, and we need him to return.”
• What are Some Misconceptions about Reformed Theology? Scott Redd of Reformed Seminary addresses that question in this four-minute video.

• John Lennox on Where to Find God During COVID-19. On this episode of the Gospelbound podcast, Colin Hansen visits with John Lennox about his new book Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
• God in a Coronavirus World. Watch this interview with Ian Morris and John Lennox, the author of Where is God in a Coronavirus World?
• What Will the New Normal Look Like? Tim Challies asks some helpful questions in this article.
• How Are You Praying through the Crisis Surrounding the Coronavirus (Covid-19)? The spread of COVID-19 should drive us to our knees in prayer. From the Ligonier livestream event Made in the Image of God, Burk Parsons discusses how he has been praying through this global crisis.
• How to Talk to Children about the Coronarivus. In this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper, who has fourteen grandchildren, responds to the question “What do you want to say to them in this season about God and coronavirus?”
• What Words of Comfort Can Help Me Fight Fear and Anxiety? No matter what happens amid the spread of COVID-19, we know that our lives are in God’s hands. From the Ligonier livestream event Made in the Image of God, B.Charles Jr., Sinclair Ferguson, and Burk Parsons offer counsel to Christians as we face this time of anxiety and fear.
• 5 Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic Points Us to the Gospel. Paul Tripp shares five ways he’s been encouraged to reflect upon how the pandemic points us to the gospel.
• Christian Reflections on COVID-19. In this recording of a teleconference call with Ligonier Ministries’ President and CEO, Chris Larson, together with Teaching Fellow Dr. W. Robert Godfrey and Dr. Gregory Poland from the Vaccine Research Group at Mayo Clinic, hear biblical, medical, and historical perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Trusting God in Difficult Times – Psalm 11. This is the first message in a special series of meditations by Tim Keller, which is meant to encourage you to trust God more deeply and to meditate on his word and what it promises, to give you strength and hope in difficult times. After the meditation, Tim is joined by Kathy Keller for a short Q&A.
• John Piper on the Coronavirus and Christ. In this episode of the Gospelbound podcast, Collin Hansen talks to John Piper about what God is doing in the coronavirus.
• A Glossary of COVID-19 Terms and Concepts. Joe Carter shares this helpful glossary of coronavirus terms to help you better understand what these terms mean and how they are used.

• H.B. Charles Jr. on Jesus’s Longest Conversation. Watch this message on the woman at the well delivered by H.B. Charles Jr. at the 2019 Gospel Coalition National Conference.
• Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility. John MacArthur writes “The first step in understanding the compatibility between God’s sovereignty and human will is to recognize that they are notmutually exclusive—and Scripture makes this absolutely clear. In God’s design, human responsibility is not eliminated by God’s sovereign control over His creation.”
• ‘His Desire Is for Me’: The Personal, Pursuing Love of Christ. Scotty Smith writes “Is the gospel primarily a set of theological propositions you defend? Or is he a Person in whom you focus your greatest delight?”

Death, Suffering and Grief

• The Fright of Death: How Conscience Makes Cowards of Us All. Tim Keller writes “Rather than living in fear of death, we should see death as spiritual smelling salts that will awaken us out of our false belief that we will live forever.”
• The Olasky Interview: Joni Eareckson Tada. On this episode of The Olasky Interview, Marvin Olasky and Joni Eareckson Tada discuss Joni’s own suffering, and what it looks like to minister to those who are suffering.
• Clinging to God in Grief. On this episode of the Gospel Coalition podcast, Danielle Anderson, Nancy Guthrie, and Vaneetha Risner share their experiences with grief, and the grace they’ve discovered along the way.

• Blessing and Praise: Benedictions & Doxologies in Scripture. You may, like me, have found peace in getting outside and taking more walks during this time. On my walks, I have been encouraged listening to this new teaching series by H.B. Charles Jr., which you can stream free from Ligonier, through at least June 30.
• Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History. Are you looking for something good to watch during these days? My wife Tammy and I have watched two episodes (available on Amazon Prime) from Tim Challies’ new documentary Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History (also available in book form, which I plan to read soon). We chose episodes that covered areas that we have traveled to (England and Scotland). You can watch for free the episode on India. Very well done.
• Updated Version of NASB. Adam Ford writes “John MacArthur announced this week that a group of scholars from his Master’s University is working on a new translation of the Bible called the Legacy Standard Bible, which will be an updated version of the New American Standard Bible that MacArthur has favored for decades.”

• Relationships are costly. Whatever it will cost you to be with God is nothing compared to what it cost Him to be with you. Tim Keller
• It is idolatry to worship the true God by a wrong method. Charles Spurgeon
• The things you daydream about in your spare time are ultimately the things you serve. Tim Keller
• Our task as Christians is not to discover the secret will of God but instead to learn the revealed will of God. Sinclair Ferguson
• Those who resist criticism, especially fair criticism, show themselves to be unhealthy people. Unhealthy people, when criticized, tend to spin, manipulate, and regroup. Healthy people, on the other hand, confess and repent. Scott Sauls
• To be indifferent to doctrine is thus but another way of saying we are indifferent to Christianity. B.B. Warfield
• The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. Tim Keller
• Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. Martin Luther
• You need more than the removal of your sins to find acceptance with holy God. You need the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. Steven Lawson