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Resources that Encourage and Equip During the Coronavirus

Whether you are staying at home or having to venture out each day to perform essential work, our minds are filled with questions and our hearts with fears. Everyone is facing hard things in multitude of different ways. Interestingly, in the midst of this crisis and the challenges it brings, there seems to be an unending list of resources to help us face our challenges. So often, though, these resources inundate us and we have neither the time or the ability to know where to start. 

As a church, we are compiling a list of resources that we believe encourage and equip us as God’s people in the midst of this crisis. This list is by no means exhaustive and draws heavily upon the great work being done at The Gospel Coalition. Over the coming the weeks, we will add resources to this list and will plan to share some of them through our social media platforms. However, as helpful as these resources may be, they are insufficient to provide the foundation we need to live and thrive on a daily basis. For that sure foundation, we must turn to God and His Word. A steady diet of God’s Word and prayer won’t keep the coronavirus away, but it will sustain and nourish us in the midst of this crisis. We pray these resources don’t replace but rather serve that purpose.

General Resources

C. S. Lewis on the Coronavirus 

Christ and the Coronavirus - John Piper

John Lennox on Where to Find God in the Midst of the Coronavirus (Podcast)

Gospel Resources on the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Watch Your (Knowledge) Diet in the COVID-19 Crises 

Missional Living & Evangelism 

10 Simple Ways to Evangelize During a Pandemic

Practice Hospitality. Especially during a Pandemic - Rosaria Butterfield 

Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague - Martin Luther 

Mission in the Age of Coronavirus 

Quarantines and the Great Commission - Five Ways to “Go” When We Have to “Stay”

Anxiety & Worry 

The Church Must Be a Refuge in Times of Fear 

John Piper on the Coronavirus and Christ (Podcast) 

Zoom Talk on Anxiety, Fear, and Depression - Friday, April 17 at 7:30 PM

Prayer 

Learning from an Insane Prayer Life

How to Pray When Life Falls Apart

Four Principles for a Powerful Prayer Life

Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds

Family 

6 Things To Give Our Children While the Coronavirus Keeps Us at Home

Help for Quarantined Marriages

How to Talk to Children about the Coronavirus

Lifeway Kids at Home

College Students 

An Open Letter to College Students 

College Student, Fight Spiritual Stagnation at Home

Podcasts 

Journey Women - Hunter Beless 

30 Minutes with the Perry’s 

Ask Pastor John - John Piper 

The Briefing - Albert Molher 

Pray the Word - David Platt

Gospelbound - Colin Hansen 

Living by Faith in Troubled Times - Tim Keller  (Sermon Series)