fear

Hi everyone, My name is Joel. This is my first post to the Puritan Board, and hopefully it doesn't digress too far from what this forum is mostly intended for. I have really enjoyed perusing through many different threads from you guys on here, ranging from all sorts of different topics...

Faith and fear are opposites. Faith drives out fear and fear drives out faith. We have a choice to make, to live in fear or to live in faith. Let us look at some definitions. According to the Oxford English Dictionary fear means, “an unpleasant emotion caused by threat of danger, pain or harm.”...

Two things: I have been teaching a Bible Study using Jeremiah Burroughs' book, "Gospel Fear". 1.) I have been trying to get a better understanding of what it is to Fear God, and to Fear and Tremble at His Word. Class is going great, and we are having great instruction and discussion time...

I am trying to distill what motivates the Christian to obey God. I run with a group of believers who emphasize (correctly) that the Lord is to be feared, and his precepts are to be obeyed. He is the Lord our God! They will then go on to say that it is God's power to condemn people to hell and...