{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Path","title":"on Living Without Fear","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3800,"description":"Podcast Guide:\nQuarter 1: You Have More Fear Than You Realize\n- Most people don't know how fear-driven they are. It's the water they swim in. \n- Parenting decisions are driven primarily by what you want to prevent, not what you want to cultivate.\n- Political convictions shaped mostly by who or what you're afraid of.\n- Career choices made to secure against failure rather than move toward calling.\n- Theology that's fundamentally defensive — protecting orthodoxy, guarding borders — rather than expansive.\n- Relationships designed to minimize vulnerability rather than maximize connection.\n- The news diet. Almost all of it is fear-delivery infrastructure. Outrage is just fear with an object to punch.\nAction Items:\n- Take one area of your life and mine out the fears that live there.\n- One Day of Observation: Watch people around you and discern which of their actions appear to be actually fear-motivated. Make a list.\nQuarter 2: Control is the Root of Fear\n- Anxiety springs from what you can't control, namely the future\n- Fear about your relationships springs from the truth that you can’t control people\n- Why you squeeze even harder when you feel like the relationship is in jeopardy\n- You try to become invulnerable, in life and in relationships, to shore up that lack of control\nAction Items:\n- Name what you cannot control and give it to God\n- Name what you can control (short list) and take action to steward that\n- Apologize/Repent to someone you love who you’ve been trying to control\nQuarter 3: Acceptance is the Antidote to Fear\n- Acceptance isn’t defeat. It is the place where fear loses its grip on you\n- There is a time and season for all things\n- We have the invaluable luxury of trusting in an all benevolent and all-powerful God. Trust in His goodness, even when it doesn’t look the way you would have it (because you DEFINITELY can’t control God).\nAction Items:\n- Pick one thing that is driving you anxious or crazy - Make a list of all the good reasons to choose...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0-iTCIytQEYlYB9VGmt2tMFZGYvh70L-G7jhXPVbmEA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNzhl/YTcyOTMxNjNlMGM5/Y2Y2ZTc3Zjc3MWYw/OWVmMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}