This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel

by Trevin Wax

Publisher:

B&H Books

, 2017

Overview

Uncertain. Confused. Overwhelmed.

Many Christians feel bombarded by the messages they hear and the trends they see in our rapidly changing world.

How can we resist being conformed to the pattern of this world? What will faithfulness to Christ look like in these tumultuous times? How can we be true to the gospel in a world where myths and false visions of the world so often prevail?

In This is Our Time, Trevin Wax provides snapshots of twenty-first-century American Life in order to help Christians understand the times. By analyzing our common beliefs and practices (smartphone habits, entertainment intake, and our views of shopping, sex, marriage, politics, and life’s purpose), Trevin helps us see through the myths of society to the hope of the gospel.

As faithful witnesses to Christ, Trevin writes, we must identify the longing behind society’s most cherished myths (what is good, true, beautiful), expose the lie at the heart of these myths (what is false and damaging), and show how the gospel tells a better story – one that exposes the lie but satisfies the deeper longing.

 

Contents

Top Highlights

“This is why in our time ‘news’ is less about information and more about affirmation. News comforts you when it is presented in a way that backs up what you already believe to be true of the world.” (Pages 24–25)

“The first begins with full and regular immersion into God’s Word as the great Story of our world.” (Page 61)

“As Os Guinness has said about the age of the selfie, ‘I post; therefore I am.’^{18” (Page 35)}

“second way to be faithful in this time of entertainment is through observing.” (Page 62)

“In the twenty-first century we keep our friends close and our phones closer.” (Page 19)

Product Details

• Title : This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel
• Author: Wax, Trevin
• Publisher: B&H Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN: 9781433648489

About Trevin Wax

Trevin Wax (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as Bible and reference publisher for B&H Publishing Group. He is the author of three books and blogs regularly for the Gospel Coalition. Trevin lives in middle Tennessee with his wife, Corina, and their three children.