The Second Cup Show

Anyone who has ever lain awake at three in the morning knows that fear doesn’t play by the rules at that hour. In the middle of the darkness, it’s easy to imagine all the worst-case scenarios and be completely overcome by anxiety. In this episode, we talk about fear of bad news, and how we can learn to commit the things (and ones) we so desperately love into God’s hands so that we can have the fre...

Are you trying to do life apart from God? Has it been a day? A season? Years? Your whole life? Is it because that’s what you really want? Because you don’t believe in him, or you don’t like him, or you don’t need him? Or are those just the stories that you have told yourself about God because you are too scared to sit in his presence and face the terrible prospect that he would see you, know you,...

 The Bible says that there is no fear in love (John 4:18). But aren’t we all a little bit scared of love, if we dare to admit it? Aren’t we all clawing it for it, gasping for it, feeling desperately terrified of how much we need it? Is there a single human heart that doesn’t simultaneously long to be loved, and also fear that it won’t be?  The rest of the verse says that perfect love casts out fea...

Today, we talk about how to have a ‘burning bush’ moment with God, and how to discern his direction as we prepare for our journey out of fear and into freedom. Here’s the guided prayer that you may use to ask God for his help and direction on the journey: God, thank you for being a God who sees, hears, and knows about our suffering. Thank you for knowing and loving me. Today, I’m struggling with s...

I used to be confined - and defined - by my fear and anxiety. Does this sound familiar to you? You're not alone. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America recorded that nearly 20% of the U.S. adult population have an anxiety disorder. That’s one in five people . In this age of fast media and bad news and self-sufficiency, and where trauma affects an increasingly large number of people...