Audio excerpt taken from Chapter 5 of ⁠Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord⁠, written and read by Michael Reeves, © 2021. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved.

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The following message by Michael Reeves was given at the 2026 Commissioning Service for Union School of Theology.

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We naturally default to viewing God through our own experiences and fears, often seeing him primarily him as a judge rather than a loving Father. Today, Dr. Michael Reeves turns to 1 John to show that God's defining nature is eternal, overflowing love. In Christ we see the boundlessly compassionate heart of the Father revealed towards us.

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