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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Happy New Year, everyone! Today, we're featuring a message from the 2019 TGC Podcast archives.

Listen in as Trevon Wax encourages us on how to pursue faithfulness in an anxious age.

Father, we thank you for your goodness to us, for your grace.

Pray, Father, that you would take the truths that we discuss here today if you've given us

in your Word that you would plant them deep into our hearts. They would bear fruit of peace,

of joy, a faithfulness, of love in this generation that you've called us to be faithful to,

and it's in Jesus Christ name we pray. Amen.

We live in an age of anxiety. The anxiety stems from several sources,

constant connectivity, economic distress, terrorism in the world, moral upheaval,

and the political challenges that our nation has faced in the last few years or so have led to a

resurgence of dystopian tales. So that's one of the reasons you see

1984 George L or Wells dystopian novel racing back up to the top of the sales charts or

Brave New World from Alice Huxley. You've got the continual success of the Hunger Games,

dystopian literature has found a place in the hearts of many Americans. I've been reading

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