Dealing with the fear virus with Pastor Ed Young
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As I’ve been working through the new realities of this pandemic, I’ve felt a bit of fear creeping into my life. Maybe it’s because I live in a COVID-19 “hot spot.” Or, it could be that as things have opened up in our state, my family is inevitably facing increased exposure to the virus. Either way, my lack of control over things I previously thought I could manage has revealed how quickly fear can replace faith in my life.
I’m guessing I’m not alone.
Ed Young, Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church, joins us on Pardon the Mess today to talk through dealing with fear in these uncertain days. In his new book, The Fear Virus, he encourages us to get “historical, not hysterical” when we’re fearful. Being historical means going back to all the places where God has been faithful in our past and using those times to remind us that God will continue to be faithful in the present.
Pastor Young shares with us the significance of trusting God in the face of fear and how to do that practically: naming our fears, taking captive our thoughts, and praying for wisdom and guidance. Trusting God is a daily (sometimes momentary) decision, and in days like these, it often means we deliberately choose to cling to God’s words instead of the words filling the air all around us.
You will love Ed Young’s vulnerable and entertaining words for us today! I’m praying this podcast will refresh you and bring biblical encouragement as you identify the areas of fear you’re struggling with.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov, host A Pardon a Mess. |
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| 0:25.9 | Pardon the Mess as we walk the parenting road together. Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. Glad |
| 0:31.1 | you're with us today, and we are about to have a great little talk with Ed Young. Ed is the senior pastor of fellowship church, |
| 0:39.0 | and it feels really weird to call him Ed, but he insisted. So there you go with that. |
| 0:43.2 | But he is a pastor of a church. He's written a bunch of books. He's a New York Times bestseller. |
| 0:48.2 | And his newest book that is nothing, if not completely timely, is called the Fear Virus virus and the whole thing is about how to work |
| 0:57.8 | through fear in our lives especially in light of a pandemic and I don't know about you but I think |
| 1:02.9 | that's what we're struggling with right now as time goes on and it's gotten longer since this |
| 1:07.0 | started and we've quarantined and then we're kind of back in the real world. I think that anxiety and fear has crept in for so many of us. |
| 1:13.4 | I know in my own life. |
| 1:14.8 | And so just such a great time to talk to him about this. |
| 1:18.6 | And he is so vulnerable and shares that he struggles with fear as well. |
| 1:22.6 | So I feel like it comes from an authentic place when he's able to speak about it from his |
| 1:27.0 | own experience. |
| 1:28.3 | Here's a couple of my favorite highlights. |
| 1:30.2 | One, he says, when you're dealing with fear, get historical, not hysterical. |
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