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.

Paul the Apostle long ago saw what happens when people remove boundaries: 'For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.'