Paper Tigers And Presidential Politics: A Fresh Look At Fear-Based Investing

While Christians and Christianity have taken many often-justifiable hits over the past couple thousand years, the actual person of Christ has remained compelling, even irresistible, for most, including me. Having followed His story for many years, I confess I was surprised, then, to only recently learn the directive that Jesus gave most often in the accounts recorded in the Bible. Do you know what it is?

“Do not fear,” or some derivative is recorded between 20 and 25 times in the Gospels (depending on translations), putting it ahead of other common refrains of Jesus, like “Love one another” and “follow me.” Fascinating, right?