The conflict in Ukraine and Russia is now approaching about a million people killed or wounded.

Israel is now fighting on two fronts, Hamas and Hezbollah. China earlier this week launched for the first time in decades an intercontinental

ballistic missile. Boko Haram, about 10 days ago, killed 26 Christians as they worshipped

in Burkina Faso and 100 other people besides.

About half of the 46 million population of Sudan

is on the brink of starvation because of the civil war there.

There are about 10 other civil wars going on

in the world right now and forcibly displaced persons in the world from their home to where

they don't want to be is about where's my number a hundred million 40

million of which are refugees half of which are under 18.

In the United States since 2017, about half a million people have died from opioid-related

usage. Our mayor, for I said last week in my neighborhood standing by one of the encampments,

there's enough housing and there's enough help available, and then quote exactly, these encampments are in place because of fentanyl.

Now those are a few of the reasons we might choose a title like this conference has,

an anxious age, but I mentioned those global crises

because of two other reasons.

One is to draw your attention to the fact

that if all of them went away tonight gloriously,

your main reasons for anxiety would be exactly

the same as they are now.

You are one heartbeat away from death and you have no control whatsoever over God's decision when that will be because James 4 15 says if the Lord wills we

will live.

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