Fear is part of life in a sin-cursed world, but it is unnecessary when we are rightly related to God through Jesus Christ. As God\u2019s children, we can calm our hearts when we hear Jesus tell us, \u201cFear not,\u201d and follow him openly and boldly.<\/p>\n
Matthew 10:24\u201330 gives us five reasons. First, when we identify with Jesus Christ, we are bound to him in persecution (vv. 24\u201325). The opposition we fear is actually a mark of being a disciple of Jesus (cf. Phil 1:28\u201329)! Second, the truth in which we trust will ultimately be vindicated (v. 26). We will never regret a single minute of following Christ. Third, the worst that can happen to us is to be killed (v. 28). Even death has lost its sting with the resurrection of our Savior from the dead (cf. Phil 1:20\u201323). Fourth, we know that God is in control of all things (v. 29). Because God is good and sovereign, we are not afraid of the future. Finally, we know that God cares for us intimately (v. 30). He cares for all his creation\u2014how much more for us, his children?<\/p>\n
The past month brought opportunities to serve at Peniel Bible Camp<\/a> as well as in our home church. This past week we arrived in northern Arkansas to serve for five weeks with one of our supporting churches, Mountain Home Bible Church<\/a>. On the schedule is ministering to the teens, helping with VBS, teaching an adult Sunday School class, and serving wherever we can. We are looking forward to the opportunities the Lord will give us!<\/p>\n Lord willing, after we return to Ohio, we will visit several of our supporting churches before we leave for Chile at the end of the year. You can view our itinerary at perrys2chile.com\/calendar<\/a>. The next few months look like this:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some of our teens were at Family Camp last week, <\/p>\n We are studying through the book of Esther with the teens This is our July 2017\u00a0email update. You can sign up to receive our updates in your inbox here<\/a>. You can download a printable PDF here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fear is part of life in a sin-cursed world, but it is unnecessary when we are rightly related to God through Jesus Christ. As God\u2019s children, we can calm our hearts when we hear Jesus tell us, \u201cFear not,\u201d and follow him openly and boldly. Matthew 10:24\u201330 gives us five reasons. First, when we identify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO_20170707_205639_fx.jpg?fit=4160%2C2343&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69J8C-8k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrys2chile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nso we had a “TAC t-shirt Tuesday.”<\/p>\n
\nat Mountain Home Bible Church over the next five weeks.<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0Thank God with us:<\/h3>\n
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Pray to God with us:<\/h3>\n
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