Transcript Fear

Fear
Friend or Foe?
Fear
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is
dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat
Difference from phobia:
an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something
Distractions….
With a phovia, the fear becomes in of itself its own entity
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/249347.php
In the industrial nations, phobias are the most common kind of anxiety disorder. Over 50 million people in
the USA and 10 million in the UK are thought to live with a phobia.
The National Institute of Mental Health estimated in 2011 that between 8.7% and 18.1% of Americans of
all ages suffer from phobias.
A much higher percentage of women suffer from phobias than men.
Fear of leaving a safe place.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing
the street.
Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Lady Gaga and the Life of Passion
1. Think about your own ambitions:
a. are they different from your childhood?
b. anything in common?
2. What does it mean to complete yourself?
3. Confidence: what makes us confident?
4. How can we master expressing ourselves
outwardly by constructing ourselves
inwardly?
5. The importance of vocation: what is our
calling?
6. Do we fear control? → To be passionate is to
put yourself in danger. What kind of danger?
7. The importance of imagination: open up
possibilities and understand our emotional
history
8. How does fear of others’ opinion affect us?
9. How does fear act like a fog?
10. Unique vs. duplicate
11. Who would you be and what would you do if
you weren’t afraid?
So what are we to do with Fear?
2 Timothy 1:7
1 John 4:18
Psalm 56:3-5
Isaiah 41:10