Are You Waiting on God — or Just Afraid to Start? | Genesis, Fruitfulness, and the Gifts You're Sitting On

About this episode

Nelson Jackson III explores the tension between knowing we are meant to create and the fear that holds us back from doing so.

Most of us know we are supposed to build something. A course. A book. A community. A resource. A conversation that needs to happen. And most of us have been sitting on it — and calling that wisdom. In this episode, Nelson sits with the uncomfortable gap between what we know we are made to do and what we have actually released into the world. Drawing from Genesis 1:28, he unpacks the Hebrew word parah — be fruitful — and why it arrives in Scripture as a command, not a reward for a perfected ve...

People in this episode

Host: Nelson Jackson III

Topics covered

• faith
• creativity
• spiritual growth
• Genesis
• fruitfulness
• overcoming fear

Keywords

• waiting on God
• fruitfulness
• Genesis 1:28
• spiritual gifts
• overcoming fear

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Genesis

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