Daily we hear of famines, earthquakes, wars, political turmoil, corruption, violence, and injustice. And with each chaotic headline, we are reminded just how broken this world is. We are tempted to join with generations of saints who for two thousand years have been praying, “Come, Lord Jesus, come”. We long for the day, promised in Revelation 21, when Jesus returns, when grief, pain, and death are no more, when Jesus makes all things new, and we can live in His kingdom with Him and worship...

In the parable of the lost sheep Jesus told in Luke 15, the shepherd leaves his 99 other sheep to pursue and rescue the one that is lost....