Cancer
Dr. Brendan Looyenga, a chemistry professor at Calvin College and member of Zion Protestant Reformed Church, uses cancer research as an analogy for understanding sin and spiritual disease. Drawing on a conversation with a colleague who transitioned from scientific research to pastoral ministry, Looyenga explores the parallels between physical diseases and spiritual maladies, demonstrating how Scripture's symbolic language about sin as disease reveals profound theological truths about human depravity and the need for Christ the Great Physician.
"And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:31, 32 I recall a conversation I had with a certain Dr. John Marcus when I was a college student learning how to do cancer research. And yes, this is the same man who is now serving as pastor of First PR Church of Edmonton. At the time we talked, Rev. Marcus was working as a research scientist at the Van Andel Institute in...
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