Hope Against Hope: The Way of Jesus in a World of Panic
About this ebook
We live in a time of panic and of boredom, of frenzy and of lifelessness, all at the same time. Our boredom leads us to seek out what can feel almost like meaning or purpose or at least life: the lighting up of our limbic system through real or manufactured fear and through real or manufactured resentment. The exhaustion after that kind of ongoing adrenal jolt leads to panic and that leads to more boredom, which starts the cycle again. What we need is a way to break the cycle of boredom and panic that comes from our dangerous relationship to control.
Hope Against Hope will help you find your way back to sanity not through seizing control--of the culture or even of your life--but instead by surrendering control through living out the way of Christ. You will discover how to
- recognize the cyclical nature of panic and boredom and understand how it impacts you,
- move past modern expectations of a predictable world to embrace reality through genuine faith, and
- regain a biblical perspective on how true life is found in choosing to follow Jesus into an uncontrollable future.
A panicked or bored Christian, much less a panicked or bored church, looks nothing like the Jesus who took his disciples to the epicenter of panic and calmly invited them to lose control--of their wants, of their futures, of their protection, and even of their lives. Hope Against Hope will help you embrace the countercultural way of Jesus as you replace fear with genuine peace.
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About the author
Russell Moore is a theologian and ethicist who serves as editor-at-large and columnist at Christianity Today where he also hosts the weekly podcast, The Russell Moore Show. He is the author of many books, including Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America. He is currently the Bill and Crissy Haslam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Faith and Reason at Lipscomb University. An ordained Baptist minister, Moore served previously as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and, before that, as the chief academic officer and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology and ethics. The Wall Street Journal has called Moore “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate.” He was named to Politico Magazine’s list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington in 2017 and has been profiled by publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and The New Yorker. Moore was a fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and currently serves on the board of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and as a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C. A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons. They live in Nashville, where he teaches the Bible regularly at their congregation, Immanuel Church.
