{"id":905,"date":"2011-08-29T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2011-08-29T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:05:33","slug":"hurricane-irene-god-and-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/hurricane-irene-god-and-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irene:  God and Calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NASA-Hurricane-Irene.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-906\" title=\"NASA Hurricane Irene\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NASA-Hurricane-Irene-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NASA-Hurricane-Irene-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/NASA-Hurricane-Irene.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Irene, which had downgraded to a tropical storm, came through our area (Scranton, PA area) yesterday bringing a deluge of rain and high winds.\u00a0 We are a\u00a0little over two hours west of New York City.\u00a0 \u00a0Some areas lost power and there was minor wind damage in the form of tree limbs downed.\u00a0 However, at my house the lights flickered once and nothing significant happened.\u00a0 We are grateful for this\u00a0but join those who mourn for lost loved ones due to this storm.<\/p>\n<p>When I got up this morning, the sky was crystal clear, the clearest blue I have ever seen.\u00a0 It is as if God used Irene to wash the sky.\u00a0 It has been a beautiful day.<\/p>\n<p>Last week in chapel at Baptist Bible Seminary I spoke on &#8220;God and Calamity&#8221; in light of my church&#8217;s summer ministry doing tornado relief work in Alabama.\u00a0 It is part of my gearing up to deal with the apologetics question of how\u00a0a good God could allow such things as tornados that kill people.\u00a0 Later that day was the earthquake on the east coast.\u00a0 Now with the hurricane, my students don&#8217;t want to see me preach in chapel any more!<\/p>\n<p>The content of my sermon was based on Jesus&#8217; statements in Luke 13:1-9 which seems to push believers to consider more important matters.\u00a0 The audio of my sermon &#8220;God and Calamity&#8221; is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.edu\/chapel.asp\">http:\/\/www.bbc.edu\/chapel.asp<\/a>.\u00a0 Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Irene, which had downgraded to a tropical storm, came through our area (Scranton, PA area) yesterday bringing a deluge of rain and high winds.\u00a0 We are a\u00a0little over two hours west of New York City.\u00a0 \u00a0Some areas lost power and there was minor wind damage in the form of tree limbs downed.\u00a0 However, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}