Good Monday. Thank you for listening to the podcast. We're going to start the week looking

at your most recent book, Pastor John.

Comma Lord Jesus, meditations on the second coming of Christ. I'm holding it in my hands

right now. It's a beautiful volume. It turned out great. Friday, you shared what you called

five misconceptions about the timing of the end times that the second coming of Christ

is far out into the future or that it already happened or that it will never happen or that

there are no events on earth yet to happen before his return or that is coming will unfold

in two different stages. That was all in Friday's episode. But your book is far less about

controversies and much more about the life applications that we can draw from Christ's

return. He is coming back maybe very soon, maybe today. So with the possibility of his

soon return as our hope, how do we live our lives today? How do we respond right now?

As I flip through the book, I mean, the entire final third of this new book is all about

how we should have lived in the light of the second coming. And one of the chapters in

that section stands out because of his brief and simple title, chapter 21. Go to work,

go to church. Is there a biblical basis for these simple directives? And if so, explain

what you write in that chapter because it seems like a lot of people are pretty curious

about it. It's amazing. In almost all the interviews I've done, I think I've done four

or five, all of them pick up on that chapter. I evidently touched the nerve by saying,

go to work, go to church. And I'm happy I did. I like it. I like simplicity and bluntness.

Yes, the answer is yes, there is a biblical basis for those simple directives. In fact,

I was struck as I worked on this book. How many straight forward links there were between

our expectation of the second coming and its practical effect on the way we live. So

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