This is a wonderful clip. The emotion of hearing yourself (and everything else) for the first time after a life-time of deafness. I’m posting this with a prayer that this is the sort of response we get from the preaching of the gospel. Spiritually deaf (and blind) people hearing and seeing the good news for the first time, responding to the wonder of grace and the beauty of the Saviour with tears of joy and astonishment at the sound of the gospel. Severely hearing impaired since birth, Sarah Churman had long managed to cope in a world where sounds came as if they were under water. But now, a surgical implant lets her hear her own voice, the sounds of birds singing, her two daughters chattering… The 29-year-old Texan has became an internet sensation, thanks to a video taken by her husband, Sloan, as she heard her voice for the very first time last week. In the video, Sarah becomes
Common grace
Total Depravity Meets Common Grace
Cornelius Plantinga: If you put together the doctrines of common grace and total depravity, you’ll be in position to explain a remarkable fact: worldly people are often better than we expect, and church people are often worse. From Engaging God’s World pg. 60 (HT: Tullian Tchividjian)
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