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🗓️ 2 April 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life, |
0:09.0 | in the time it takes to get to work. |
0:11.0 | I'm Keith Simon. Are you familiar with the term doom scrolling? |
0:17.4 | Doom scrolling is scrolling through the news on your phone on the lookout for sad or negative stories. Some people do scroll with a hope |
0:26.5 | that if they know all the bad things out there then somehow that will enable them |
0:30.8 | to prevent those bad things from happening to them. |
0:34.0 | Sometimes people doom scroll for so long that they actual have physical symptoms that arise. |
0:40.3 | Things like their heart begins to erase, their mind begins to spin, |
0:43.4 | they can even have panic attacks because of doom scrolling. |
0:46.7 | I think we'd agree that whether or not we classify ourselves as doom scrollers |
0:51.6 | we do come across a lot of negative sad stories that can steal our hope and leave us discouraged. |
0:59.0 | Is there any reason to have hope when the world is full of doom? Things like war and political |
1:04.8 | crisis, poverty, homelessness, drug use, anxiety, depression, overdoses, sexual |
1:10.0 | immorality. I bet in your own life you know people who have addictions who are on the brink of |
1:16.3 | divorce who are single parents and are struggling, who have bad health or broken relationships. |
1:21.5 | I mean maybe some of those things even describe your life. |
1:25.2 | In the middle of all that, it's easy to give up hope. It's easy to live in discouragement. |
1:30.7 | When I'm asked what makes me hopeful, I return to one thing. Every single time I return to the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus rose from the dead when it looked the bleakest, when his followers had scattered and he'd been |
1:44.8 | crucified at that point God was at work so I tell people all the time since Jesus |
1:51.2 | rose from the dead I can't lose hope. Christians can't lose hope. |
1:55.3 | We are people of hope. If you've been following along on our trip through First and Second |
2:00.3 | Chronicles, you might be discouraged. |
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