END OF YEAR EDITION: APOLOGETICS WITH RUPERT KUKWA EPISODE 8

As the year quietly slips into history, the lesson opens with a haunting awareness: time is relentless, life is brief, and human existence feels like a mist that appears and vanishes. Scripture pulls back the curtain to reveal a sobering contrast—while calendars expire and candles burn down, God’s promises do not age. The message builds tension by confronting the listener with an unavoidable truth: everything visible is temporary. Yet, just as that realization threatens despair, hope breaks through. In Christ, believers are invited to fix their eyes beyond the ticking clock, toward unseen realities that are eternal, unshaken by suffering, hardship, or the passage of years. What seems like an ending may, in fact, be the threshold of something that never ends.

The lesson then presses deeper, challenging dominant worldviews that quietly shape how people face the end of a year. Against nihilism, it insists life has eternal meaning; against materialism, it exposes the emptiness of earthly treasure; against relativism, it declares truth is not negotiable but embodied in Christ Himself. The suspense tightens with a decisive call: time is temporary, but eternity is real, and death is not final because Christ has conquered it. The closing appeal is unmistakable—live with eternal priorities, anchor your hope in Christ, and respond to the gospel before another year fades into memory. The year may be ending, but the gospel confronts every listener with a choice: an ending that closes in silence, or a beginning that never fades.