Trevin Wax - This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel

No one combines gospel depth, keen insight, practical help, and good storytelling like Trevin Wax. This book is good on every level.

J. D. Greear , PhD, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and author of Jesus, Continued and Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart

My favorite books are the type that step on my toes and expose my blind spots, while inspiring me to live more faithfully. Its a tough note to hitspeaking prophetic truth that motivates, rather than defeatsbut in This Is Our Time , Trevin Wax hits it perfectly. Through compelling stories and smart cultural insight, Trevin unmasks the popular myths that permeate our society and church. He writes in a style that is enjoyable and relatable, while challenging the church to maintain its distinctiveness in the world. This is the kind of book that causes you to see through a different lens, and I will no doubt return to it again!

Sharon Hodde Miller , author and blogger

Trevin Wax is a thoughtful, biblically energized leader. This book shows a path for faithful presence in the culture, with neither navet nor panic. Read prayerfully and prepare to do spiritual warfare with wisdom, fidelity, and love.

Russell Moore , president, Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Why are we increasingly anxious and dissatisfied? No matter how Jesus-rooted we think we are, the promises and myths of our culture grip all of us. Trevin Wax offers something rare. Even as we discover our own entanglement in these myths, through Trevins compelling narratives, theres no judgment. No guilt. Just wisdom, compassion, and a gospel-way forward. Anddid I mention epiphany? Yes, small and mighty epiphanies on nearly every page. I needed this book. The Church needs this book.

Leslie Leyland Fields , author of Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas

Every living generation of Christians bears the weighty responsibility of stewarding the gospel and contextualizing in the heart language of their peers. Trevin has proven himself repeatedly to be a voice for our generation who not only stewards the content of the gospel well, but also how the implications of our chief message speak to the cultural moorings of our present age. This Is Our Time is both needed and timely.

D. A. Horton , pastor of Reach Fellowship in Long Beach, California, author, speaker, and poet

Voices that can speak to the church about the culture and to the culture for the church are much needed and too rare. In This Is Our Time , Trevin Wax proves to be just such a voice. These pages convey deep understanding of our time and practical wisdom for believers living in the midst of it.

Karen Swallow Prior , PhD, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

This Is Our Time reveals why Trevin Wax is one of the brightest stars in the evangelical firmament. Wax combines a masterful grasp of the biblical narrative with a perceptive exegesis of our cultural context in order to shine gospel light on the false stories of salvation that captivate so many people in our day.

Bruce Ashford , provost and professor of Theology & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of Every Square Inch and One Nation under God

Noise. Theres a lot of it and it can be difficult to decipher what is real and good and what are lies. We often and possibly unknowingly place our trust in the many myths of our culture that are masked as truth. In This Is Our Time , Trevin Wax clears the fog so we might see the myths that kill our souls to find truth that will nourish them. We are reminded of our Resurrected King who is interceding for us as we seek to live in a world that is not our own. Trevin is right; this is our time, and he masterfully and graciously instructs us on how to magnify the Lord with our lives.

Trillia Newbell , author of Enjoy , Fear and Faith, and United

This Is Our Time offers a rare combination for a book on cultural engagement; it is both intellectually informed and a delight to read. Trevin Wax shows us how some of the most ubiquitous cultural narratives of our day shape our hearts and identities in ways that are making Christianity feel like an irrelevant, or even immoral, diagnosis. His cure for a diseased culture and a fatigued church is not a heavy dose of cynicism but rather the medicine prescribed by the Great Physician. Trevin turns to the hope-filled story of the good news that offers Christ as a better treatment plan. This Is Our Time appeals to the imaginations of the next generation of Christians with engaging stories that are told within the framework of the biblical story of redemption. We needed this book and Trevin was the right person to write it!

Josh Chatraw , PhD, executive director of the Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement School of Divinity at Liberty University

As a careful reader of Scripture, of history, and the human heart, Trevin Wax helps us better understand our cultural moment. His book This Is Our Time is a giant step forward in rethinking the task of faithful Christian witness, suggesting that we listen to our neighbors. What do they want? What do they dread? To answer these questions, as Wax convincingly has, is to humbly blur the lines of us versus them and help us better tell the Story whose every promise is yes in Christ.

Jen Pollock Michel , award-winning author of Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place

Trevin Wax cares about culture because he cares about people, and because he cares about Jesus mission to seek and save the lost. This Is Our Time is an insightful book that illuminates the contrast between the true story of our world and the false hopes and dreams on display in our cultures beliefs and practices. Trevin Wax is a reliable guide in helping believers live as faithful witnesses in a secular age.

Ed Stetzer , Billy Graham Distinguished Chair, Wheaton College

In our day of social media, selfies and Hollywood messaging, Christ-followers often eschew the cultures offerings or are addicted to them. Trevin thoughtfully and compassionately portrays another path altogether: how we can be faithful in our day. This Is Our Time helped free me to embrace the age in which Im living by looking for the longings and myths of our culture and exposing them to the light of the gospel. A most practical and theologically sound work, as youd expect from Trevin Wax.

Kelly Minter , author and Bible teacher

Trevin Wax aptly identifies one of the key ways myths take root in our heart: our habits. Rather than a blanket rejection of technology, popular culture, and the myths they project, he helps us to take a step back and engage them fully. With a focus on the churchs unique role in this particular environment, Wax provides hope to those who may feel particularly discouraged and vulnerable in the midst of what has become the new normal.

Richard Clark , online managing editor for Christianity Today

In This Is Our Time , Trevin Wax helps us navigate the times in which we live. Thoroughly pastoral and deeply personal, he speaks to the concerns and temptations we face daily, asking us to place the ever-shifting pressures of culture, technology, and human opinion within the fixed framework of Gods Word. Here is wise and practical help for such a time as this.

Jen Wilkin , author and Bible teacher

This is a really good book. I loved reading it and had a hard time putting it down. It is a great read, incredibly insightful in its analysis, and helpful in its wisdom for how we move forward in a day of cultural, moral, and social chaos. Trevin Wax has provided believers and nonbelievers with a great tool that will get you thinking. Get it and use it!