Everything is falling apart. Your hope is gone. Your dreams are gone. You think there is no tomorrow.

But Dr. Tony Evans says God offers us a way out of our own personal great depression.

Jesus is offering you a new deal that will make your tomorrow better than your yesterday.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans. Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.

And president of the Urban Alternative.

It's easy to get this heartened when our problems seem to be piling up around us.

Well, let's join Dr. Evans as he explains how God can help us get out from under the burden of discouragement.

In Luke 24, we have two disciples who are on the Emeas road.

The crucifixion is taking place.

They are on their seven mile walk back home to Emeas from Jerusalem, verse 13 tells us.

They were discussing the weekend. They were discussing what had taken place on this crucifixion weekend.

And while they were trying to figure stuff out, why they were trying to make sense of the illegal trials that had led up to the death of Christ,

the crucifixion, the nature of the crucifixion, when they were trying to make sense like Marvin Gaye of what's going on.

Why they were trying to figure this thing out.

It says, Jesus himself, verse 15, approached and began traveling with him.

So Jesus kind of shows up and starts walking beside them.

Of course, this is after his resurrection from the dead.

He shows up and walks with them. But according to verse 16, their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.

Jesus asked them in verse 17, the question, what are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?

And they stood still looking sad.

These are sad people. These are discouraged people.

And what exactly was discouraging them?

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