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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

The Unbearable Weight of Fear | Fear Not | Part 1

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like there are more things to be afraid of today? What’s weighing on your mind? The Bible teaches us that overcoming fear is possible with God’s help. Let’s learn how together.

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0:00.0

Well, it seems to me like there are more things to be afraid of today than there were things to be afraid of years ago.

0:09.5

Do any of you kind of agree with that?

0:11.5

It seemed like there's more things that are just

0:13.6

weighing on the hearts and the minds of people. In fact, if I go back to when I was a kid,

0:20.1

life was simple. There were things to be afraid of, but there weren't very many.

0:26.5

And what's interesting is there were kind of unwritten rules of how you

0:31.1

should handle your fears. For example, I wonder how many of you can relate

0:34.9

to the unwritten rule. If the closet door is open when you go to bed, you are vulnerable

0:41.0

as a kid, right? Because if there's something in there, they can just come out.

0:44.5

So you have to have the closet door closed.

0:46.0

No one ever told you that, but you just know it's true, right?

0:49.0

Same thing with when you're in bed,

0:51.5

you can't leave a limb, a leg or an arm hanging over the edge of the bed why

0:56.7

because whatever is under the bed

0:58.4

will pop and pull you under no one ever told you that but she kind of just would feel it and so you probably didn't do this but me if I was a kid and I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night I would stand up on the bed. I would take a running jump over just so the arm couldn't get me so I go in the bathroom

1:15.2

check behind the shower curtain to make sure no one was there come back in close

1:21.3

the closet or one more time jump into bed and keep everything in like this

1:25.3

It was simple back then. There were a few things to be afraid of but now I'm living in a grown-up world with grown-up fears.

1:34.4

How many you know what I'm talking about?

1:36.1

You can type it online, I'm in a grown-up world

1:38.8

with grown-up fears.

1:40.8

A lot of people worried about the economy right now because the economy is tricky.

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