Worship Minute: I conducted a Graveside service yesterday and had the opportunity to provide comfort to a lady who approached me afterwards confessing that she had a horrible fear of death. I know that many people can relate to her and I want to address that in this post. Hebrews 2 tells us that Christ shared in our humanity so that through death He could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is the devil) and to free those who are being held in slavery to the fear of death their whole lives! This Sunday we are singing the song called No Longer Slaves, and in that song we repeat the line that says we are no longer slaves to fear, we are children of God. God did not give us a spirit of fear, he gave us a spirit of power, and love, and of a sound mind. The Spirit we have does not lead us into slavery to fear, but it does lead us to cry out, “Abba! Father!” according to Romans 8. So let’s use that sound mind to offer up our worship to Him and not to be crippled by the spirit of fear! God bless you ~ Mark