Olivet Discourse: Jesus outlines the events of the last days.

The mundane life is a serious threat to Christian vitality. Christians often live as the unregenerate—i.e., numb to the reality of God’s promises and program. Day by day, routine by routine, the Christian worldview is reduced to the pragmatics of “being good” and “meeting the needs” of another day. The focus becomes the “reality of the present” rather than the true reality of God’s promises of things to come. Peter warned the believers in his day of skeptics who mocked the idea that there i...