Jude 2

I urge you to click on the link that follows and take 10 minutes and 19 seconds of your time to watch this video of John Piper speaking to what appears to be college students.

http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?vi ... ytopvideos

I watched it in its entirety. Sobering. I didn't notice anybody jumping pews either.

This part of the gospel is difficult. My nephew preached a sermon this past Sunday on the end times and the swift fulfillment of prophecy now happening before our very eyes. His last point - of things on immediate horizon - was persecution of christians. For a vast majority of christians, faith proclaimed for decades will have to be lived out - in an intolerate, ridiculing, hate-filled society. Will we go the distance?