A Bright Tomorrow: How to Face the Future Without Fear
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Overview
Packed with biblical truth, A Bright Tomorrow addresses anxiety about an uncertain future by reminding readers of what they can be certain of—God’s grace, his unshakeable promises, and the hope of resurrection. Jared Mellinger helps readers remember their security in Christ in the midst of parental fears, cultural decline, aging, death, and facing the unknown.
The future is scary, and Jared Mellinger knows we live in a world full of daunting change, frightening uncertainties, and concerning circumstances. Parenting fears, old age, death, and illness are just a few of the common anxieties that weigh on the hearts and minds of most of us at some point in our lives. If you’re a Christian who obsesses over the future or ignores it for good reason, this book is for you. Lasting comfort and peace are found in Christ, who has secured a place for his people and offers a bright tomorrow based on the solid ground of God’s promises.
A Bright Tomorrow equips Christians with biblical truths laid out in Scripture to face the future with confidence. Readers will learn to face their fears and worries about the future by living right now in view of the gospel of hope and the promise of life everlasting.
This life-changing book will lead Christians to grasp onto certain hope, transforming the way they think about God, themselves, and the world around them. True courage comes from knowing the end of the story, and as Christians with forward-looking hope, we can be eternal optimists and fight fear of the future through Jesus our champion, who gives us victory over death.
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- Reminds readers of what they can be certain of—God's grace, his unshakeable promises, and the hope of resurrection
- Helps readers remember their security in Christ amidst parental fears, cultural decline, aging, death, and the unknown
- Equips Christians with biblical truths laid out in Scripture to face the future with confidence
- A Bright Tomorrow
- Jesus Speaks to Our Fears
- More Grace Will Come
- The Power of Hope
- Using the Promises
- Unfailing Love
- We Will Kiss the Wave
- For Parents Who Worry
- A Culture of Panic
- Growing Old and Beautiful
- It Is Not Death to Die
- Eternal Optimists
Through Jesus, Christians have a ‘God of hope’ (Romans 15:13). But we are so prone to allowing circumstances, trials, disappointments, failures, heartaches, and worries to cloud the sun of our unconquerable hope. This little book radiates hope, shining with the assurance of our heavenly Father, ‘Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off’ (Proverbs 23:18). I initially read A Bright Tomorrow because I was asked to do so in view of possibly writing an endorsement. Now that I’ve written it, I intend to read the book again because it encouraged me so much the first time.
—Donald S. Whitney, Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY; author of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Praying the Bible, and Family Worship
I interact with a lot of people who have faced the devastation of losing a child. When your worst fears have become your reality, some wrestling with whether or not you can genuinely trust God moving forward and what that should look like is inevitable. I’ve wanted a book that I could give to people who ask me what to do with the very real fears they have about the future. And now I have it. A Bright Tomorrow offers readers a sound, Scripture-saturated, concise, and winsome invitation to trust God with everything.
—Nancy Guthrie, Author of Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow
This isn’t pastoral hyperbole—I absolutely love Jared Mellinger’s new book, A Bright Tomorrow. As those in union with Christ, we are hardwired for hope, whether or not we have yet to see, experience, and enjoy this wiring and hope. God will bring to completion the good work he has begun, not only in us as his beloved daughters and sons but also in his entire creation. This is our hope. This is our living, heart-transforming, all-creation renewing, mission-engaging hope. With art and heart, Jared not only throws the curtains wide open on the glories of our all-things-new future, he also demonstrates the present power of remembering God’s future into our present moment.
—Scotty Ward Smith, Pastor Emeritus, Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN; teacher in residence, West End Community Church, Nashville, TN
- Title: A Bright Tomorrow
- Author: Jared Mellinger
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781948130011, 1948130017
- Resource ID: LLS:BRIGHTTOMORROW
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-26T21:17:50Z
Jared Mellinger joined the Pastoral Team in 2006, upon graduating from Pastors College of Sovereign Grace Churches. He became senior pastor in 2008. Jared graduated from Kutztown University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education. He enjoys reading, rollerblading, poetry, drinking coffee, building fires, and listening to Josh Garrels. Jared is the author of Think Again: Relief from the Burden of Introspection as well as A Bright Tomorrow: How to Face the Future Without Fear. He resides in Glen Mills, PA with his wife Meghan and their six children.