What does First B Jackson teach about fear?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on fear takes it seriously as something real rather than something to be dismissed. Mark Hall, one of the church's elders, shared from his own life that fear operates on more than one level. There is the sudden, physical kind, the kind that forces action, and there is the deeper, spiritual kind that can actually move a person toward God rather than away from him. For Mark, it was the fear of judgment at nine years old that brought him to belief, and John 3:18 was the verse that made it concrete: hearing that anyone who does not believe has already been judged was not a threat to run from but a truth that led him straight to the altar.
The teaching in Acts 27, worked through by Pastor Jon, puts fear in a different setting: 276 people on a ship in a nor'easter, with no sun, no stars, and no way to navigate, until Luke says all hope of being saved was slowly abandoned. What Jon drew out of that passage is that God does not wait for circumstances to calm down before He speaks. Paul received the angel's word in the middle of the storm, not after it. The promise was not that the ship would be saved but that every person on it would be, and Paul acted on that word, breaking bread and giving thanks to God in front of everyone while it was still dark.
Both of these messages arrive at a similar place from different directions: fear, whether it comes from a storm at sea or from the weight of your own record before God, is not the last word. The teaching here does not minimize what the fear feels like. It simply keeps pointing to what God says inside it.
Taught from John 3:18 · Acts 27:1-44
The passage taught · Acts 1
1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
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The messages that teach on it
- October 5, 2025 They All Were Brought Safely to Land A sermon on Acts 27 traces Paul's shipwreck voyage to Rome and asks what it means to trust God when storms, delays, and loss of control pile up around you.
- May 7, 2017 Mark Hull Elder Mark Hall shares how fear, of a mountain lion, of hell at age nine, and for his children, drew him toward God's grace rather than away from it.
Mentioned along the way
- June 22, 2025 Don't Be Afraid, Keep on Speaking Pastor Ray walks through Acts 18, where Paul settles in Corinth, finds community, and is told by God to speak without fear because many people in the city are ready to hear.
- April 11, 2022 He Meets Us Right Where We Are John 20 shows Jesus meeting Mary, the disciples, and Thomas right where they were, in grief, fear, and doubt, and offering each one peace and purpose.
- March 27, 2016 Peace, Purpose, and Power in the Resurrection A Wyoming pastor walks through John 20 on Easter Sunday, showing how the risen Jesus brought peace, purpose, and power to Mary Magdalene, the disciples, and Thomas.
- September 25, 2011 Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening A Wyoming pastor opens a 40-day series on love by teaching a Jackson congregation how to recognize and respond to God's voice, drawing from 1 Samuel 3.