darald greay barnhouse one of the great teachers of another generation was driving home from the funeral of his first wife and he had his children with him and they were overwhelmed with grief as he sought some way to comfort his children as they were standing at the corner a huge moving van passed them and its shadow swept over where they were standing Dr barnhouse said children would you rather be run over by a truck or by its shadow and of course they said the shadow it’s harmless he said let me tell you something kids 2,000 years ago the truck

ran over Jesus Christ in order that only the shadow would have to run over us isn’t that a great thought the truck ran over Jesus Christ he suffered the death so that only the shadow has to run over us the Bible says death is a shadow not a reality no longer is it true that we have to be afraid for Jesus said and I quote it again I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die he shall live and whoever lives and Believes In Me shall never die you might be interested to know that on all of the major lists of what people

are afraid of and I think I think this is probably not thought through very carefully by most people the number one thing on almost every list guess this is public speaking now that that would say that people are more afraid of public speaking than they are of disease I don’t know that I believe that but at least in the moment when they fill out their little questionnaire they believe it probably because they’ve been asked to do it and it strikes Terror into their heart but second or third on almost every list that I’ve seen seen during