{"id":39195,"date":"2026-02-06T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39195"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:17:42","slug":"260207-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260207-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship of a Risk Free Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39196 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260207.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260207-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. We worship the risk-free life. The fear-filled cannot love deeply because love is risky. They cannot give to the poor because benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams fail?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear. In Matthew 8:26 \u201cJesus got up and gave a command to the wind and the waves, and it became completely calm.\u201d The sea became as still as a frozen lake, and the disciples were left wondering, \u201cWhat kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!\u201d (vs. 27 NCV) \u00a0What kind of man, indeed. Turning typhoon time into nap time, silencing waves with one word.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=9b902a967d&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D9b902a967d%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1770183312233000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3hdm26pJLYkcxo7TlXr0ah\"><em>Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. We worship the risk-free life. The fear-filled cannot love deeply because love is risky. They cannot give to the poor because benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams fail?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear. In Matthew 8:26 \u201cJesus got up and gave a command to the wind and the waves, and it became completely calm.\u201d The sea became as still as a frozen lake, and the disciples were left wondering, \u201cWhat kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!\u201d (vs. 27 NCV)  What kind of man, indeed. Turning typhoon time into nap time, silencing waves with one word.a frozen lake, and the disciples were left wondering, \u201cWhat kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!\u201d (vs. 27 NCV)  What kind of man, indeed. Turning typhoon time into nap time, silencing waves with one word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39197,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39195\/revisions\/39197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}