Reviving the Fear of God

The Uncomfortable Prerequisite to Knowing God through His Word

Some people get squeamish when preachers talk about the “fear of God.” It sounds antiquated, like something leftover from the days of a “hell-fire and brimstone” revivalist, who patterned their ministries off John the Baptist’s rebuke of the Pharisees and Sadducees (“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”, see Matthew 3:7). …