Slides to accompany Bristol Vineyard podcast dated 3rd June 2018. Podcast here: https://www.bristolvineyard.com/media-resources/podcasts-archive/

1. Freedom from Fear

2. ‘Lament’ – to complain well

3. Psalm 56

4. Psalms of lament
• Complaint: ‘This is happening’, ‘Why
is this happening?’
• Appeal: ‘Save me!’
• Trust: ‘The Lord will save me’
• Hymn of praise: ‘The Lord has saved me’

5. 5 All day long they twist my words;
all their schemes are for my ruin.
6 They conspire, they lurk,
they watch my steps,
hoping to take my life.

6. 7 Because of their wickedness do not let them
escape;
in your anger, God, bring the nations down.

7. 10 In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise –
11 in God I trust and am not afraid.
What can man do to me?

8. 13 For you have delivered me from death
and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
in the light of life.

9. “If you think of this world as a place
simply intended for our happiness,
you find it quite intolerable: think of
it as a place for training and
correction and it's not so bad.”
C. S. Lewis