Episode 12: Love Over Fear with Catherine McNiel

In today’s episode, author Catherine McNiel shares the inspiration and questions behind her upcoming book, Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers and Enemies. It’s a call back to the kind of discipleship that Jesus lived out and asks of us, and of his earliest disciples. What prompted a transformation of the timid disciples into the bold, fearless preachers we see after Jesus’s resurrection?   We talk about:  how fear is a helpful - yes, helpful! - feeling, and how it can also hold us back warning signs of being “discipled by fear” why loving others can feel threatening the idol of safety, and the good news about surrendering it to God what fear of God looks like, and doesn’t what privilege adds to our propensity for fear how to respond when your calling is not comfortable   —   Find Catherine at CatherineMcNiel.com, @catherinemcniel on Instagram and Twitter, and @catherinemcnielwrites on Facebook.   (affiliate) Preorder Fearing Bravely here.   —   Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook @whatyoumakeitblog.   Get free Bible study resources at whatyoumakeitblog.com.

In today’s episode, author Catherine McNiel shares the inspiration and questions behind her upcoming book, Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers and Enemies. It’s a call back to the kind of discipleship that Jesus lived out and asks of us, and of his earliest disciples. What prompted a transformation of the timid disciples into the bold, fearless preachers we see after Jesus’s resurrection?   We talk about:  how fear is a helpful - yes, helpful! - feeling, and how it can also hold us back warning signs of being “discipled by fear” why loving others can feel threatening the idol of safety, and the good news about surrendering it to God what fear of God looks like, and doesn’t what privilege adds to our propensity for fear how to respond when your calling is not comfortable   —   Find Catherine at CatherineMcNiel.com, @catherinemcniel on Instagram and Twitter, and @catherinemcnielwrites on Facebook.   (affiliate) Preorder Fearing Bravely here.   —   Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook @whatyoumakeitblog.   Get free Bible study resources at whatyoumakeitblog.com.