Are you afraid?

It is hard not to fear for the future in these troubled times.  America as an idea is under attack. The Church seems weaker than it has been in a long time, with many departing and divisions running through every part of her.

Pastors are not free from these fears, and perhaps are particularly vulnerable to them.  In a commencement address I gave in August at Beeson Divinity School, I drew on God’s charge to Joshua to discuss fear and its antidote, courage.