Fear Not, for I Am With You: Finding Freedom from Fear and Anxiety in the Presence of God - Softcover

Tiger, Arthur A

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235759527

Verlag: His Story for Us, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

One of the most repeated commands in the Bible is also one of the most misread. We hear "fear not" as an order to feel braver, or as an older form of "you've got this": talk yourself up, you are stronger than you think. But no one can command a feeling, and at three in the morning your own pep talk hisses out like air from a punctured tire. Scripture's "fear not" does the opposite of self-help. It almost never stands alone. It comes with a reason, and the reason is never you: "Fear not, for I am with you." The relief it offers is not that you have finally gathered your courage. It is that you are no longer alone. This book follows a single Hebrew phrase, al-tira, across the whole of Scripture - from the first time God speaks it, to a childless old man under the stars, to the last time it is spoken, by a voice that had been dead and is alive. Abraham and Hagar, the nation trapped at the sea, the prophets in exile, the shepherds at Bethlehem, Paul in a foundering ship: the people change and the terrors change, but the ground of the command never does. Never "be strong." Always "I am with you." Drawing together biblical theology, the psychology of fear, and the philosophy of anxiety, it makes one quiet and uncommon case: fear is not conquered by willpower but dethroned by Presence. It does not promise a life with no fear. It offers something older and more honest. In the very thing you dread, you will not be alone. For readers weary of being told to be their own saviors, and who have long suspected that the answer to fear was never a technique, but a Person.

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Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul - a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism - always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions - and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: His Story for Us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798235759527
• Einband: Broché
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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