12 biblical truths about the fear of the Lord
Acts 9:31 says that “the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.” The fear of the Lord—the fear of God—is central to the Church of God. John Murray, a 20th-century Presbyterian theologian, called the fear of the Lord the ‘soul of godliness,’ the soul of the Christian life. Yet it’s a term and concept we rarely hear about in our churches today. But what is the fear of the Lord? The Reformed theologian Wilhelmus...
