Cliff Sims

that work in that facility all the time, that every single day, their entire life is devoted to thinking about our impending potential doom and how much anxiety those people must have about things if that's the environment that they live in every day.

And that sent me down a rabbit hole of understanding how big of an impact anxiety is happening on American society right now.

80-something percent of Americans say that they feel anxious on a day-to-day basis and they're worried about the future.

And then that led me down a rabbit hole of like, well, what does the Bible say about anxiety?

And how do we live a life where the Bible says, don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

And it also talks about how if God

cares about a tiny raven, what happens to a tiny raven, how much more does he care about what's gonna happen to you?

Also talks about how God raises up kings and he takes down kings.

Our God is sovereign, he's in control of everything.

But we also see in the Bible that preparation and faith are not in conflict with each other.

So it's not saying, don't worry about the future, everything will take care of itself, don't prepare.

Moses built an ark to prepare to save his family.

The Bible says that even God sent John the Baptist to prepare the way for Jesus.

So we prepare, we do the right thing,

but we do it in faith knowing ultimately that our God is in control of everything that happens.

So that's an example of how I take a cool inside story of what it's like in the doomsday bunker and then talk about what does the Bible say about anxiety.

There are a million examples of that in the book.

We talked a little bit earlier about the allure of power.

C.S.

Lewis wrote a lot about power.