Now, 32 years later, fresh with data from a recent 5- year review commissioned by the American Psychological Society of all the studies on self- esteem that had accumulated over the last 30 years, Baumeister is ready to give up hope. “After all these years, I’m sorry to say, my recommendation is this: Forget about self-esteem and concentrate more on self-control and self-discipline.”

These five lectures by Jerry Bridges--founder of Navig ators--address the subject of the Fear of the Lord. Besides being the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7), the Fear of the Lord is a powerful motivating factor in relationships and decision making. Jerry Bridges takes the time to carefully reflect upon what a robust and accurate Fear of the Lord looks like. We hope you enjoy this series and benefit greatly from its content.

In the midst of these major figures was a small group known as the Anabaptists. They sided with neither the Reformers nor the Catholic Church. On this day, one of these men was facing execution for his faith. The indictment read: “Michael Sattler shall be committed to the executioner. The latter shall take him to the square and there first cut out his tongue, and then forge him fast to a wagon and there with glowing tongs twice tear pieces from his body, and then on the way to the cite of execution give times more as above and then burn his body to powder as an arch-heretic.”

As this gruesome plan was enacted, one sympathetic observer recorded, “When the ropes on his hands had burned through, he raised the forefingers of both hands, thereby giving the signal he had agreed on before with his fellow believers to indicate that such a dying was bearable and that he remained in the faith.” (The telling of these events are adapted from Malcolm McDow and Alvin Reid, Firefall: How God Shaped History Through Revivals.)