Fear of death – this is the primary weapon of the devil. And Jesus had to defeat it by being subject to it as we are subject to it. He had to be human. He could not have met our predicament angelically. This would not have answered our need. We...
Fearful. Frightened. Gripped by their unbelief. Two disciples got out of town. Jerusalem was unsafe, especially now that the body of Jesus was gone. Cleopas and his unnamed companion were shell shocked as described in the central story given to us in Luke 24. They set out for Emmaus. It...
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man” (Hebrews 2:9). An old friend’s husband has died. Long before his time it seems...
” Contrary to popular expectation, Christianity offers no simple solution to man’s problems or to the integration of his personality; it does promise the abiding presence of Christ…..There is no offer of ease, but the promise of grace for the experience” — Morris A. Inch from his book, “Psychology in...
The world is a crazy place. I think we can all agree about this. It mostly does two things to us. It makes us mad, and it makes us afraid. And still we read that God loves the world, loves it so much that He gave His only Son to...
The fear of the Lord is THE beginning. We first come upon this phrase in Proverbs 1. These words fall at the end of Solomon’s introduction to this collection of instructions. Eugene Peterson, the pastor-teacher who produced The Message translation of the Bible, indicates that the “fear of the Lord”...
Aaron was a man left in charge – and he blew it. Big time. The background to the story is this: The Lord summoned Moses to the top of Mount Sinai, where God would proceed to deliver His Law to His Prophet to His People. Moses took Joshua with him...
Fear does strange things to us. It has to; because it is something we were not made for. Read Genesis 3. There we discover original fear as it plagued Adam and Eve after their original sin. Maybe that should read original sins — plural. There was a mental process of...
