From Genesis to Revelation the Bible tells us to fear God, but our lives show where our true fears actually lie. Sinful, controlling fear cripples us spiritually: we become afraid to obey or to trust God, and we worry more about what others think of us than what God thinks. The remedy the authors propose is not the absence of fear but its replacement.

Wayne Mack and his son Joshua work through what the fear of God is, why Scripture commands it, and how it displaces the fears of man, failure, loss and death. The treatment is biblical-counseling in method, with application pressed at each stage. For anyone whose obedience is being governed by what they are afraid of.