Can the Bible be used to cure anxiety and depression? That's just one of the questions we'll be

answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor

Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the

Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question. Here's our phone number. It's

8333-3-833-843-2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites. You can email us

your question at Questions at Core social media sites. You can email us your question at

Questions at Corechristianity.com. We also have a YouTube channel. Our cameras have been down

for the last week or two because of a break-in here at our offices, but we hope to have

us new cameras ready to go by tomorrow or Wednesday so you can actually see Adriel and his cool new outfit on YouTube.

There's no cool new outfit. It's the same shirts I wear all the time. So sorry. I thought you

have a really cool new hat today. Well, yeah, I'm wearing a hat today because the cameras aren't

here. So I can, you know, it's casual Monday for me. Get away with it, right? Exactly. But the hat will be gone probably by Wednesday or whenever the cameras are operational. Be watching for that. By the way, you can send us a message through our YouTube channel, even though we've just got a still photo up there right now. Just go to the YouTube channel and shoot Adriel a message that way, and you can listen to the audio as well.

Well, let's start off with a voicemail from one of our listeners. This came in last week from Anna.

I had a question, Pastor Adriel, about Mark 1332 to 37. It says here to stay awake because no one knows the day or the hour. Is that

a metaphor or is that quite literal? So I would find it very hard, I think, to stay up all day

and all night. And I'm just kind of concerned about

that like what what is the direction here so if you could please answer that

question I want to thank you so much for your ministry and everything that you

do and I learned so much for you and I listen to you every day and just thank you so much you've

helped me. Hey Anna, thank you for that encouragement. So, you know, Jesus when he's talking about

is coming there in Mark chapter 13 talks about being vigilant, being watchful, staying awake. I mean,

if he was speaking literally here, I'll tell you who the most sanctified people on the planet would be. It would be new moms. And I could say this because, you know, we have this four-month-old in our home who is not giving us a lot of sleep, especially my wife. And so all you new moms out there who are staying awake, God bless you, but that's not what Jesus is talking about there in Mark Chapter 13.

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