The Kingdom Perspective

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should you do in the face of the coronavirus? We should prepare mentally for a long hard fight that we are confident we shall win. This coronavirus pandemic has caught the world by surprise. We’re back on our heels in an unenviable defensive position. Nonet...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the divisions in our society sparked by the COVID crisis? As with any national crisis, COVID has exposed and exacerbated social divisions. Class, race, politics are being pressed (and even manipulated), in order to further divide our nat...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the coronavirus threat? We should rejoice in the victory of Christ’s resurrection. The experience of this pandemic has exposed our vulnerability. We are mere flesh, made from the dust of the earth. From dust we came and to dust we will r...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should you respond, as a Christian, to the coronavirus? You should be motivated all the more to grow in your understanding of science and perhaps even consider a career in science or medicine. Why? Science and medicine are two wonderful and biblical ways to...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should the church do in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. We should not be gullible and accept everything that comes to us in the name of “spiritual truth.” Rather, the Bible calls us to investigate whether something is truly from God. And how do we do...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the coronavirus epidemic? We should be all the more eager to weep over our worldliness and put our trust in God alone. This feeling of brokenness—of knowing our neediness as sinners before a gracious but holy God—should characterize the...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should the coronavirus affect the way we think as Christians? We should be all the more determined to be driven by truth and not mere emotions. One of the primary commands of the Christian life is Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transf...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus? We should let this time of reflection and suffering drive us all the more to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Therefore, we should be all the more vigilant to seek out spiritual teach...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should the church do in the face of the coronavirus pandemic? We should be all the more discerning between true and false shepherds of the church. There are many charlatans that only want to fleece the flock. Many skeptics will want to blame Christianity it...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. The coronavirus lockdown has created some uniquely difficult challenges, especially for parenting. How should we respond? We should use this as a divinely mandated opportunity to grow in patience. Now, for many of us this suggestion may feel like a cruel joke, o...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the coronavirus lockdown? We should be all the more determined to sink our roots daily into the rich soil of God’s Word. The Bible commands us to be steadfast. We should not be like a boat that is tossed to and fro by every wind of panic...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus? We should take comfort in the biblical doctrine of the incarnation. Many of us are stressed—troubled by the social, financial and physical terror COVID-19 has unleashed upon us. Where can we turn for help? The do...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the COVID crisis? We should seek to be creative and resourceful with how we do our work. Work life has been disrupted. So many of us are being forced to do our work remotely. This can often seem inefficient. Worse yet, it can feel exhaus...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should we as a church respond to the coronavirus? We should be loving our neighbor by understanding and following the best science available. Science comes from an old Latin term for knowledge. Biblically speaking, science is a good thing because we live in...

Transcript: Hello, this is Ryan Bouton, Campus Pastor of The Quechee Church of Quechee, VT. The Quechee Church is a ministry of Christ Redeemer Church of Hanover, NH. This is a part of a special-edition series of “The Kingdom Perspective.” In our recent sermon series we saw how Habakkuk tackles the thorny issues of having faith in God while asking questions that seem to doubt him. In times of trou...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus epidemic? Pray for a massive intervention by God. Pray for spiritual awakening! Certainly, we should pray for protection the from virus—for ourselves, our family and our world. The “Lord’s Prayer” commands us to p...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus? Consider this. In 1527 as the plague hit Wittenberg, the German pastor and professor Martin Luther offered some advice to a fellow pastor. Of course, he wrote without knowledge of modern science and medicine. Non...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should you respond to the coronavirus outbreak? You should take comfort in the fact that the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth is your Heavenly Father for Jesus’s sake. The Heidelberg Catechism, a doctrinal teaching device developed in 1563 and still used...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the coronavirus shelter-at-home order? We should thank God for a providentially enforced Sabbath rest! Biblically speaking, rest is a good thing. God instituted a Sabbath in the very created order. He commanded the children of Israel to...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the forced shut down caused by the coronavirus? We should take the time to dig deeply into the knowledge of God. Nothing is more important than knowing God, and nothing is more practical. The great 19th century preacher Charles Spurgeon...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should we do with the emotionally overwhelming situation of the present pandemic? We should feel free to weep at the sadness of the whole situation. The Bible is no stranger to weeping and sadness. “Lament” is an entire genre of biblical literature. Multipl...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. How should we think about “doing church” in a time of mandated social distancing? We should see all the more clearly that the church is a church in exile. As a church we are experiencing what the Bible calls exile. To be sure, the church in this world is always...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should we do with our emotions in the face of the present pandemic? We should spend more time in the biblical book of Psalms. The Psalms are the Bible’s song book and as such it is not surprising that they deal with the full gamut of our human emotional exp...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus epidemic? We should take comfort that God saves us through suffering not apart from suffering. Peter tells us to not be surprised by the “fiery ordeal” that comes upon us for our “testing”. In the context the “fie...

Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of the Kingdom Perspective. What should we do in the face of the coronavirus pandemic? We should be particularly concerned to care for the most vulnerable. The New Testament writer James defines “pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God” as caring for “orphans and widows in thei...