Losing Our Sanity: What We’re Afraid Of

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

People today are living in a constant state of fear. The fight or flight instinct has become a routine way of life, subverting fact gathering and fact checking, and causing careful deliberation, logical thought, and empathy towards others to take a holiday. In this first episode discussing Michael Horton’s new book, Recovering Our Sanity: How the Fear of God Conquers the Fears That Divide Us, the WHI hosts consider both the gift of fear and its manipulation. They discuss what we fear and why, and how the gospel of Christ offers an alternate perspective on what threatens us. Michael Horton also reflects on how his emergency heart surgery earlier this year has continued to shape his thoughts on fear and its antidote.

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0:00.0	My mitral valve just exploded and they said,
0:05.0	I've only seen this twice.
0:08.0	Blood was filling up in my lungs instead of going to my brain.
0:12.0	They said, we don't know whether you're infected. If you're
0:15.6	infected then you'll die if we open you up. COVID infected? Is that?
0:21.7	Yes. Okay. That's making sure. You will most certainly die if that's the case.
0:26.0	If you aren't infected you may still die. The chances are very good that you're not going to pull through this.
0:33.7	Say goodbye to your wife and kids.
0:37.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and
0:45.4	debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:49.2	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse, the Reformation came to the English-speaking world.
0:57.0	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn. in.
1:05.0	Fear. What comes to mind when you hear the word fear?
1:10.0	There's a pandemic of fear occurring right now according to a recent study.
1:15.4	Top fears of Americans are the corruption of government, pollution, the loss of
1:21.6	income, serious illness, death, extinction of plant and animal species,
1:26.7	global warming and paying medical bills.
1:29.8	There's also the fear of loved ones dying. The national economy is consistently on the top of that
1:36.6	list and we're cursed with the fears of death that we all experience and the fears of disease that threaten us. We long for
1:45.4	security and comfort and fear the loss of certainty about the future. So we're going to
1:51.0	spend the month of August exploring fear and why it seems that we're afraid of anything and everything except God.
1:58.8	We're going to explore how the fear of God means we don't have to live in the fear of the world others and ourselves.
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