Tag: despair

  • What’s wrong with the world? Is there hope? (Ephesians)

    What’s wrong with the world? Is there hope? (Ephesians)

    Guilt, weakness, spiritual slavery, prejudice, arrogance, tribalism, conflict, war, victimhood, persecution, pain, suffering, futility, ignorance, lying, deceit, anger, theft, greed, pornography, sexual sin, darkness, fear, drunkenness, substance abuse, domestic abuse, workplace abuse, spiritual powers… In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he says many things about the problems we face in this world. He also gives…

  • Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas

    Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas

    What does the Bible have to say to a world in crisis? In my latest Iso-Chat, I speak to my friend and colleague George Athas about the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is about a crisis—a crisis involving disaster, despair and death. In the end, it is a theological crisis of confidence in God’s…

  • Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas

    Ecclesiastes and a world in crisis, with George Athas

    What does the Bible have to say to a world in crisis? In my latest Iso-Chat, I speak to my friend and colleague George Athas about the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes.