Mark 13:14–23 — Life in This Present Age

We are, like the disciples for those first 40 years, living in the time of the "birth pains”. We know that new life is emerging, we know that we have "died with Christ and been raised with him," and we're also walking around in these failing bodies, seeking to walk by faith in service that often looks a lot like "filling up in our bodies the sufferings of Christ”. We all live here longing for the King to return and bring our chaos back into order.