By You hear your phone ring out it’s message-notification chime. You read the message warning you about some fearful possibility. It comes from a good friend, it is highly relevant, and you realise that many of your phone contacts should know about this too. So you quickly tap the forward options
A Fear-Driven Life
There was once a stingy young man so consumed with the fear of going hungry, that he put away some money each month in a future food fund. Decades later, the man retired, and his regular income was no more. So intent on having enough money to buy food at
The Disorder of Anxiety and Fear
Anxiety disorders are claimed by psychiatry and psychology as one of their fields of expertise. In the meantime, Scripture has held the place of EXPERT on the disorder of anxiety ever since sin entered the world. Anxiety might manifest itself in many physical ways, but since it is called sin in the
Not Afraid of Anything Frightening
One of the most frightening situations of life is that of a godly woman with an ungodly husband. Not surprisingly, it is exactly that situation where the Lord offers the most comforting of words. 1 Peter 3:1 mentions the situation of a godly woman married to a man who does
When There Are More Questions Than Answers
In all the troubling times where endless questions flood our minds, but no answers seem evident, the Scripture always has a firm answer. It is an answer that transcends the answers we desire for the situation at hand, and is instead an answer that brings peace and perspective even if
Exploit the Mundane for Christian Living
Most of us have a strange attraction to the dramatic, vibrant, and extraordinary. We love movies where in less than 90 minutes, the world can experience a disaster and some heroic salvation, or a guy and girl can be strangers, meet, fall in love, overcome some conflict, and be reunited.
Courage to die
Paul’s plan to die was to increase the worship of Heaven, but that did not make Paul callous to the earthly process of dying. He is a man who was much afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down by the suffering of this life. Paul’s plan to die included courage—courage enough to
Big fear, little fear, which will you fear?
Every fear is a big fear—that is the nature of fear. But at the same time, we do understand that some fears are so big that they completely overwhelm other fears. For example, upon spotting an eight-legged creature on your kitchen floor, a fear of spiders might completely remove (at