Why Christians Have Hope In The Worst Of Times

Only 43 when he died suddenly, Oswald Chambers was a no-nonsense British chaplain in World War 1.  A month before his death in 1917, he gave a series of talks to the troops stationed in Egypt.  His text was a bit different—the book of Ecclesiastes. Even people who don’t know much about the Bible know the famous, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens; a time to be born, and a time to die,” But the book of Ecclesiastes begins with the words: “Everything is meaningless.”