Moving Past Despair

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

When you consider the prospects for Christians right now, you might think they would be in despair. And you might be right. There is a lot of evidence that things are not going well. Kevin, Collin, and Justin look at several specific phenomena that would cause despair. And then they give us things that we can do now to move from that despair and into hope. Plus, there are some great book recommendations!

Life and Books and Everything is sponsored by Crossway, publisher of Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord by Michael Reeves.

Rejoice and Tremble examines the difference between sinful and godly fear and corrects the negative perception of the fear of God. It is part of a series created in partnership with Union School of Theology to teach Christians to delight in God, grow in Christ, serve the church, and bless the world.

For 30% off this book and all other books and Bibles at Crossway, sign up for a free Crossway+ account at crossway.org/LBE.

Timestamps:

Have you heard of Michael Reeves? [0:00 – 3:56]

Life & Football & Everything [3:56 – 7:22]

How’s COVID-19 going? [7:22 – 25:41]

Reasons for Current Earthly Despair [25:41 – 44:54]

Declining Fertility Rate
Declining Church Membership Rate
Cultural Institutions Aligned Against Christianity
The Speed of the Collapse
Race Relations Getting Worse

Now what do we do? [44:54 – 1:01:56]

Books & Everything [1:01:56 – 1:15:29]

Books and Everything:

Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind, by GraceOlmstead

A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War,by James Byrd

Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts

Surviving Religion 101, by Michael Kruger

The Life of John Murray, by Iain H. Murray

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest, by Crawford Gribben

The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleazar Barton

Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001, byGarrett M. Graff

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Good to be with you again on Life and Books and Everything.
0:20.9	This is Kevin D. Young. Good to have you with again on life and books and everything. This is Kevin DeYoung.
0:22.5	Good to have you with us.
0:24.3	Colin and Justin are here as well.
0:27.6	We want to thank our sponsor, Crossway.
0:30.9	He's grateful for their sponsorship for the big Eva dollars they send our way.
0:38.9	Fort Knightley, just bathing in it like Scrooge McDuck Money Tower.
0:45.3	Thank you, Justin.
0:48.6	All right.
0:49.7	Should we cut that out?
0:51.1	Is that good?
0:52.8	Well, go your call, Justin.
0:55.0	Okay, all right.
0:56.0	No.
0:57.0	But we are mentioning today the new book by Michael Reeves,
1:02.0	Rejoice and Trimble, the surprising good news of the fear of the Lord.
1:07.0	Michael Reeves is one of those, what I hope people have heard of him.
1:11.4	It does seem like anyone who has read his stuff says, have you heard of this guy, Michael Reeves?
1:18.5	It's fantastic.
1:19.9	I haven't read this book yet.
1:21.8	Justin, the cover makes it look like it's in the genre of gentle and lowly.
1:27.6	Is this a series or is this just a cover design trick?
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