will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves … lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.… For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine” (2 Tim. 3:1, 2a, 4b; 4:3a). What Paul said serves as an apt description of our own narcissistic and relativistic times, when people serve themselves and are skeptical of the possibility of truth. Historians now generally regard the twentieth century as the American Century. It is too early to tell what they