
A Christmas and New Year message for my friends everywhere. The world has become a toxic place. How many times I’ve heard it said over the past months: “The world has gone mad.” It seems we are witnessing it all coming to the surface at the same time and at many places: social hysteria and restlessness; spreading of big lies, deception and delusion; spreading of nationalism and racism, fear, hate, confusion. People are divided. Religion is politicized. Nations are angry. Tensions are high. And the extended season of pandemic, and our impatiences with it, are not helping. In 2022 we need to return to Jesus, for He is our only hope. In this New Year message I am trying to explain why.