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The episode discusses the balance between confidence before God and the recognition of His holiness in Christian worship and prayer.

Send us Fan Mail How do we hold together confidence before God and a proper sense of his holiness? Derek Rishmawy, Alastair Roberts, and Joe Minich take up a pastoral question at the heart of Christian worship and prayer. Working from the Lord's Prayer, the Psalms, Job, and John 8, they discuss the dangers of both presumption and paralyzing anxiety, the relationship between knowledge of God and knowledge of self, and why assurance is less a fact we verify than a relation we inhabit. Along the...

People in this episode

Guests: Derek Rishmawy, Alastair Roberts, Joe Minich

Topics covered

• confidence before God
• holiness
• Christian worship
• prayer
• assurance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alcoholics Anonymous

Books & works: The Lord's Prayer, Psalms, Job, John 8, Isaiah's vision

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