Emphasis Preaching Journal

Years from now, when people dig through the history of our time, I wonder what word would characterize much of who we are? That four-letter word just might be fear. But fear is not only a twenty-first-century term. Every age has had to struggle with fear and its consequences. The word "fear" runs throughout the Bible. The Old Testament opens with Adam and Eve telling God they hid in the Garden after eating from the tree because they were afraid (Genesis 12:10).