Drought. Bushfires. Flood. Coronavirus. Personal crises in marriage or in finance or health or mental well-being. The Bible understands crisis and God empathizes with us in our struggles. The story of Joseph exemplifies the Bible’s potential to comfort and guide us in our own challenges. Using Joseph’s story, Theo explains what a crisis is and why it happens. Fatalism and karma are not realistic explanations. Cynicism and humanism are not ultimately to be our response as Christians.

Crisis can help us to take a long hard look at ourselves and our own mortality, realizing that God is sovereign and in control. Looking carefully at the widely divergent responses of Jacob and his sons to the crisis, Theo shows how God can grow our character through crisis situations - as Joseph exemplifies.