Moses and Fear: From Fearful to Fearing the Lord
We remember Moses as the guy who stood up to Pharaoh, split the sea, and walked down a mountain with the Law in his hands. What we don’t talk about nearly as much is how afraid he was through most of it. Fear followed Moses from a basket on the Nile all the way to […]
Gideon and Fear: What Judges 6–7 Teaches About Courage
The Bible doesn’t introduce Gideon by saying “here’s this guy that God’s going to raise up.” Instead, we find Gideon hiding in a winepress, fearful of the Midianites taking his grain. It’s here that one of my favorite Bible story begins. This fearful, coward of a man will soon be called a “mighty man of […]