{"id":38837,"date":"2019-03-09T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/gods-power-in-unexpected-places\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:38:00","slug":"gods-power-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/gods-power-in-unexpected-places\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Power in Unexpected Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dawkins is the author of <em>The God Delusion<\/em>. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He once debated John Lennox who is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. They debated the existence of God. At one point Dawkins says of John Lennox:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>He believes that the creator of the universe, the God who devised the laws of physics, the laws of mathematics, the physical constants &hellip; that this genius of mathematics and physical science could not think of a better way to rid the world of sin than to come to this little speck of cosmic dust and have himself tortured and executed so that he could forgive.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That, says Dawkins, is profoundly unscientific. Not only is it unscientific, but it doesn&#39;t do justice to the grandeur of the universe. Why would God bother entering into our small and broken planet? Dawkins chided Lennox and all Christians for believing in that kind of God.<\/p>\n\n<p>God&rsquo;s only and eternal Son on a Roman cross? Despised and rejected by men on this tiny planet. It&rsquo;s like being blind-sided in the subway station on a Friday morning in Washington DC in a hurry to get to work and you pass by one of the most brilliant violinists in the world playing some of the most beautiful music in the world on one of the most expensive violins in the world. You don&rsquo;t expect to see the master violinist performing in such a dirty, undignified place. But that is the very point. Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-article-source\">Charles Price in his sermon: &ldquo;God&#39;s Power in Unexpected Places,&rdquo; PreachingToday.Com (March, 2014)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[405,409],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3450,3451,3540,3578,3713,3718,3719,3723,3738,3839,4077,4471,4782,5104,5212],"tax_ctp_topics":[384],"class_list":["post-38837","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-atheism","tax_ctp_tags-atonement","tax_ctp_tags-calvary","tax_ctp_tags-christ-crucified","tax_ctp_tags-creator","tax_ctp_tags-cross","tax_ctp_tags-cross-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-crucifixion","tax_ctp_tags-death-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-easter","tax_ctp_tags-good-friday","tax_ctp_tags-ministry-of-holy-spirit","tax_ctp_tags-redemption","tax_ctp_tags-suffering-servant","tax_ctp_tags-uniqueness-of-christ"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>God\u2019s Power in Unexpected Places - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/gods-power-in-unexpected-places\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"God\u2019s Power in Unexpected Places - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Dawkins is the author of The God Delusion. 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