Sunday, May 1, 10:15 a.m.
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.”
from Psalm 23
On March 11, 2002, six months after the World Trade Center was destroyed in a terrorist attack, the Department of Homeland Security introduced something it called “The Homeland Security Advisory System.” Anyone who passed through an airport for the next decade will remember the system. Periodically, a voice would announce over the airport’s loudspeakers that the terror alert level was “orange .” It was pretty much always “orange.” No further explanation was provided. There were no instructions about what one should do about a threat level of orange, or what might change if it was dropped to yellow or raised to red. All we really understood was that we were supposed to be afraid. Although the terror alert has since been discontinued, there’s still a hum of fear all around us. Not just about terrorism, but about the what the future has in store. So how do we, as people of faith, deal with our fears? Join us on Sunday as guest preacher Jerry Eslinger preaches the God who tells us to fear no evil.
