Held by God When the World Shakes

When life unravels and doomsday thinking takes hold, who is holding the story? Jesus' warnings about the fall of the temple, fulfilled when Rome destroyed Jerusalem, show that God remained in control even in catastrophe. A frightened child held still for a shot at the pediatrician pictures how pain narrows our view, and the sermon insists that endurance is the evidence of a salvation already secure in Christ rather than the means of earning it.