Fear (4 of 5)
Series: Potholes
Craig Smith
Proverbs
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. We're so honored to have you with us for week number four of our Potholes series where we are on a search for wisdom from the book of Proverbs to help us avoid those destructive potholes we all encounter on the road of life. So far we've looked at what God has to say about apathy, anger and pride. Today, we're going to dig into the pothole of fear.
Now, to be honest, I'm not prone to anxiety or paralyzing fear...but I'm no stranger to it, either. In fact, just this past week, my family has faced some things that have provoked some fear. I understand what it's like to be thinking about the future and imagine all the worst possible scenarios...and then your body begins to feel like that imagined future is somehow real and you start to tighten up and you can feel the panic rising up. I know what that feels like and most of you probably do too. Whether you've hit that pothole hard because of a relationship issue or a career issue or a health issue or a money issue...we've all ben there. And for some of you, fear is such a real and a regular thing that it doesn't even feel like a pothole anymore...it just feels like the rhythm of the road.
While I was preparing this message, one of the staff sent me a link to a sermon on fear by one of my favorite preachers, Andy Stanley, who said something that really caught my attention. He said that we can't ever be completely free of fear without also being free of hope, because fear and hope both spring from the same source: our imagination. Fear and hope both spring from our ability to picture a future that is different from our present. And if I can add my own spin to that: fear populates the future with demons and disaster. Hope populates the future with angels and expectation.
Which means, I think, that dealing with fear is about taming our imaginations. That's what we're going to tackle today.
Why don't you go a ...
Series: Potholes
Craig Smith
Proverbs
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. We're so honored to have you with us for week number four of our Potholes series where we are on a search for wisdom from the book of Proverbs to help us avoid those destructive potholes we all encounter on the road of life. So far we've looked at what God has to say about apathy, anger and pride. Today, we're going to dig into the pothole of fear.
Now, to be honest, I'm not prone to anxiety or paralyzing fear...but I'm no stranger to it, either. In fact, just this past week, my family has faced some things that have provoked some fear. I understand what it's like to be thinking about the future and imagine all the worst possible scenarios...and then your body begins to feel like that imagined future is somehow real and you start to tighten up and you can feel the panic rising up. I know what that feels like and most of you probably do too. Whether you've hit that pothole hard because of a relationship issue or a career issue or a health issue or a money issue...we've all ben there. And for some of you, fear is such a real and a regular thing that it doesn't even feel like a pothole anymore...it just feels like the rhythm of the road.
While I was preparing this message, one of the staff sent me a link to a sermon on fear by one of my favorite preachers, Andy Stanley, who said something that really caught my attention. He said that we can't ever be completely free of fear without also being free of hope, because fear and hope both spring from the same source: our imagination. Fear and hope both spring from our ability to picture a future that is different from our present. And if I can add my own spin to that: fear populates the future with demons and disaster. Hope populates the future with angels and expectation.
Which means, I think, that dealing with fear is about taming our imaginations. That's what we're going to tackle today.
Why don't you go a ...
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