A cursory glance at the news on any given day is enough to remind us that our world is riddled with destruction and devastation.
Much of the carnage is caused by war – humanity seemingly doing all that it can to wreak havoc upon itself. Much of the reporting doesn’t even reach our news outlets, or has lost its grab factor because it has been going on for so long.
Against this backdrop, stories emerge of individuals courageously joining the fight on the front line – helping to take on ISIS, standing up to Zimbabwean despotic rule, or simply doing their military job wherever they have been posted. Heroic people who offer some sort of hope in a broken, war-ravaged world. Narratives that stir up that universal desire for hope, and maybe even springboard us into being able to speak of our certain, eternal hope as Christians.
