God has created a glorious universe. Images from the Hubble telescope reveal awesome galaxies and nebulae. Do distant stars and planets have anything to do with your future? What will you be doing for all eternity?

To billions around the world, no time of the year is more eagerly anticipated than the Christmas season. "'Tis the season to be jolly," is how the song goes. Of course, for many people, Christmas can be a depressing season, emphasizing their loneliness and isolation from family.

How can you really understand the traumatic events beginning to affect the entire world? How can you make sense of the adversities that seem to be afflicting especially the American and British-descended peoples scattered all over this earth?

Skeptics may ridicule the idea that God guides world events, but history tells a different story!

Over the last several decades, news reports have documented an ominous trend—the growth of disturbing and increasingly shocking behavior in young people, especially in affluent nations of the world.