A new MP3 sermon from Heritage Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Gift of Rest, Part 3 Subtitle: From the Pastor's Pen Speaker: Carl Miller Broadcaster: Heritage Presbyterian Church Event: Podcast Date: 4/24/2024 Bible: 2 Peter 2:4-10 Length: 7 min.…

We continue our mini-series #Franklymydear which examines horror films inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a very recent film from this year. LISA FRANKENSTEIN is the feature debut of Zelda Williams and was written by Diablo Cody. It features a very 80s aesthetic and a darkly comic story of death, resurrection, murder, and how difficult it…

A new MP3 sermon from Bethel Baptist Chapel Billinghay is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The curse of comparing Subtitle: The Words of the Wise Speaker: Richard Hilliard Broadcaster: Bethel Baptist Chapel Billinghay Event: Sunday - AM Date: 4/21/2024 Bible: Proverbs 23:17-18 Length: 35 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fear the LORD and Be Safe Speaker: Grant Van Leuven Broadcaster: Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 4/21/2024 Bible: Proverbs 14:26; Acts 9:31 Length: 26 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Dean Bible Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 229 - Worshiping God; Fear of the Lord; God is Not “Safe” [C] Subtitle: Ephesians (2018) Speaker: Dr. Robert L. Dean Jr. Broadcaster: Dean Bible Ministries Event: Bible Study Date: 4/21/2024 Bible: Ephesians 5:18-22; Isaiah 6:1-4 Length: 5…

A new MP3 sermon from Waco Family Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fear God, Obey the King, Enjoy Life Subtitle: Exposition of Ecclesiastes Speaker: Todd Gill Broadcaster: Waco Family Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/21/2024 Bible: Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 Length: 38 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Gethsemane Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: " Having a Healthy Fear of God " Speaker: Pastor Stephen Williamson Broadcaster: Gethsemane Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/21/2024 Bible: Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Psalm 89:6-11 Length: 46 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Hope For The Heart is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Our Response to His Return Subtitle: Book of Revelation Speaker: Pastor William Rogers Broadcaster: Hope For The Heart Event: Podcast Date: 4/19/2024 Bible: Revelation 22:7-12 Length: 33 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Bemiss Road Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fear of God #4 Subtitle: WZYN Shepherd's Pulpit Speaker: Justin Atchison Broadcaster: Bemiss Road Baptist Church Event: Bible Study Date: 3/28/2024 Bible: Habakkuk 3:3-15 Length: 8 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Bemiss Road Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fear of God #3 Subtitle: WZYN Shepherd's Pulpit Speaker: Justin Atchison Broadcaster: Bemiss Road Baptist Church Event: Bible Study Date: 3/27/2024 Bible: Habakkuk 3:3-15 Length: 9 min.…

A new MP3 sermon from Bemiss Road Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fear of God #2 Subtitle: WZYN Shepherd's Pulpit Speaker: Justin Atchison Broadcaster: Bemiss Road Baptist Church Event: Bible Study Date: 3/26/2024 Bible: Habakkuk 3:3-15 Length: 10 min.…

Having concluded our series on some of the best horror films of 2023, we are launching a new series focusing on a classic from modern literature that seems to be having a creative moment. A handful of films were released within the past year that took their inspiration directly from Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein. So we're kicking off a …

As an epilogue to our look back series on some of the most noteworthy horror films of 2023, we ventured into the largely dialogue-free, alien-infested world of the Hulu thriller NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU. Joined by Quarterly King Ian Olson, this is one of our more heavily debated films, as opinions widely vary between the three of us on what this film i…

We culminate a conversation that's been playing out for 2 months on our Patron segments by circling up a broader conversation about Netflix's series THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, adapted by Mike Flanagan and his team from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Over the past eight episodes, our Patron segments have been tracking each episode of the show in…

We're almost to the end of our look back at the best horror films of 2023 but we couldn't possibly leave the series without discussing the robotic sensation from Blumhouse known as M3GAN. We're joined by friends of the show Drew Pasanen and Jackson Harper for a strikingly thoughtful and very open conversation about our evolving relationship with te…

As we continue our look back at some of the best horror films of 2023, we encounter a truly unique and original epic as only acclaimed director Ari Aster could conceive it. BEAU IS AFRAID chronicles the bizarre and varied adventures of Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) as he struggles to find his way back home following the news that his mother has died. The …

Time to pump up those sneakers and pop that denim jacket collar because the Fear of God is going 80s this week as we continue our look back at some of the best films of 2023 with a discussion about the time-travel horror comedy, TOTALLY KILLER. We're joined by foreign correspondent and Quarterly Queen Vera Goudie this week as we examine this deligh…

We continue our look back at the best horror films of 2023 with a film many placed at the very top of their lists. TALK TO ME was first discussed on the FoG back when it hit theaters when we were joined by Quarterly Queen Jess Fischli and former Literary Correspondent Meridith Curran in an impromptu chat. Now, it gets the full FoG treatment as we t…

In the summer of 2022, we covered a brief series of horror documentaries and during that time, our Patrons also got to hear our thoughts on five episodes of the Shudder Original documentary series CURSED FILMS. As a special surprise release this week, we're collecting those brief conversations together for our broader listenership to enjoy. Feature…

We continue our look back at the horror films of 2023 with one of the most inventive and creative films of last year, as equally likely to bore you to tears as it is to terrify you to your core. SKINAMARINK is an experimental horror film (one of a handful we've seen released in the past couple of years) that strips away most of our comfortable and …

We continue our look back at some of the best horror films of 2023 with the latest installment in the legacy Evil Dead franchise, EVIL DEAD RISE. We're joined not only by Quarterly Queen Vera Goudie, but also by first time guest and "nowayjocee" Twitch streamer Jocee Worley to discuss the merits and missteps of this newest entry in the war against …

Among the Capital-C Choices made among films of 2023, perhaps the zaniest of them all was the comedy horror directed by Elizabeth Banks: COCAINE BEAR. As we continue our look back at 2023, we're joined by friend of the show, pastor and author JR Forasteros, to discuss all of the intricate facets of all that is Cocaine Bear. Seriously, though, we di…

Welcome to our first discussion of 2024 Friends and FoGgers! And believe us when we tell you it's a doozy. Demian Rugna's film WHEN EVIL LURKS took festivals and horror fans by storm last year for its unflinchingly bleak examination of the deterioration of an entire community. It features transgressive boundary-pushing, dreadful narrative revelatio…

Hey everyone! Whether you're finding us for the very first time or have been with us for years, THIS is an episode we want you to hear. We (Reed Lackey and Nathan Rouse) have been putting this show together for over seven years! A whole lot has changed since then and we wanted to have a fresh conversation (a kind of soft reset, if you will) about w…

As part of our Spooky Seasons for 2022 and 2023, we paraded through the Halloween and Scream franchises respectively. As a bonus for our patrons during those runs, we also covered the first ten episodes of THE SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR specials. Now, while we're on a brief break, we'd like to share with the rest of our listeners the complete col…

If you like what we do at the Fear of God, we'd like you to consider becoming a Patron. You'll get extended episodes every week and special invitations to online events and hangouts. You'll also receive exclusive bonus episodes, like this one we're previewing today on PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, the film that launched the career of both Tim Burton and…

Welcome back again Friends and FoGgers! To close out this tumultuous and challenging year, we invited a whole host of staff and guests to have a straight-up New Year's Party. We look back on what we've enjoyed this year, forecast some entertainment for 2024 (including a brand new fun segment involving movie trailers), and reflect on what we hope fo…

Happy Christmas and Merry Holidays to one and all! We are starting a new tradition here at the Fear of God this week by taking a look -- hopefully each new year to come -- at one of the many adaptations of Charles Dickens' beloved classic, A Christmas Carol. This week, we tackle the 1988 rendition directed by Richard Donner, scored by Danny Elfman,…

We're having a very special conversation this week, specifically about a classic Christmas special! Dr. Seuss' iconic HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS cartoon is ubiquitous in culture, particularly around the holiday season. There have been live action and feature length animated ventures to broaden the story, but there's something very simple and sp…

Welcome to the party, pal! That's right, this week we're continuing our coverage of Christmas movies where tough cookies take on loads and loads of baddies with the 1988 action classic of all action classics: DIE HARD. There's a lot of praise to be sung for how this film has endured, how it's changed the face of the action genre, and for how impecc…

We're kicking off this holiday season like a Christmas star to the eyeball with last year's Santa-Claus-meets-Die-Hard romp, VIOLENT NIGHT. The film more than lives up to its title and David Harbour sells the heck out of a disillusioned, had-enough Santa Claus who finds himself up against some greedy baddies with guns one Christmas Eve. Our discuss…

It's that time again! Every 25 episodes or so, we venture into vast catalog that is horror master Stephen King. This time around we assemble the ka-tet with Blake Collier and Ian Olson to tackle the "Last Castle Rock Story" with NEEDFUL THINGS. When a genial elderly shop owner opens a new store in the fictional Maine town of Castle Rock, he sells p…

Before we dive into our holiday seasonal series, we're taking a stopover at a film directly suggested by one of our Patrons during last year's FoGgoween party. LIGHTS OUT began as an award winning viral short film that packed an unforgettable punch. In 2016, the film was given the feature treatment, delivering most of the same thrills and scares bu…

We're going somewhere new and different this week while we're in-between series. This week, we're discussin a film released just this October called DARK HARVEST, directed by David Slade based upon a book by Norman Partridge. The premise involves a secluded mid-western town in the 1960s wherein each Halloween, every able-bodied teenage boy in the t…

Happy Halloween FoGgers!!! It's the rare occasion we have once every seven years or so to actually deliver an episode to you ON Halloween. And we're wrapping up our #Screamaween journey with a mega-sode marching through the highlights of the Scream franchise. We rank the opening teasers, we rank the killers, we make our pitches for Scream 7, we hea…

We come to the penultimate episode in #Screamaween and our final discussion about an individual film when we tackle this year's latest release: SCREAM 6. Picking up with the survivors of Scream 5, this time relocated to the Big Apple, Scream 6 is one of the most character-centric installments in the entire franchise. We invited back to the show Jac…

We're back with another installment in our spooky season's #Screamaween covering the film that acts as a soft reset for the franchise and its fifth entry: SCREAM (2022). Bringing back our old gang of characters and introducing us to a whole batch of fresh faces, this "requel" did the impossible by proving that that franchise had life left in it, ev…

We continue our run through #Screamaween with a revisiting stop through the fourth installment of the SCREAM franchise. Having first discussed this film as part of our Scares Us/Saves Us series in 2021, we invite some new voices to the conversation: Foreign Correspondent and Quarterly Queen Vera Goudie as well as long-time friend and first-time gue…

We have a special little bonus for you guys today! Nathan recently got the opportunity to sit down with friend of the show and President of Van Ryder Games AJ Porfirio to discuss the third series of their landmark, megahit game FINAL GIRL. They dig into lots of behind the scenes details about the production and development of the latest series as w…

We continue our spooky season franchise run with SCREAM 3, originally conceived as a potential definitive conclusion to a trilogy of Scream films. Beset by creative missteps and haunted by cultural pressures to tone down the violence, Scream 3 lands as far more comedic than either of its predecessors and feels the least cohesive of any in the franc…

#Screamaween is in full sway and we're trekking through our college years by covering the sequel to the meta-smash and mega-smash hit from Wes Craven: SCREAM 2. We're joined by friend of the show, author, and pastor JR Forasteros as well as our resident Gorey Gamer Matt Murray for a deep dive into all the good, the bad, and the clunky in this brisk…

It's Spooky Season here at the Fear of God and we're following a tradition established last year where every September/October we march through an iconic horror franchise, covering each installment in depth. This year we present #Screamaween! Yes indeed, we like scary movies and we are marching through the Scream franchise one at a time to cover th…

Before we venture into our official Spooky Season, we have a prelude of sorts featuring a film that Reed has been wanting to discuss for years. We have another official #LackeyLeftover with 1981's DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW. Broadly considered to be one of the greatest made for television horror films of all time, Dark Night of the Scarecrow is de…

Taking a break from our series format, we're excited to bring you another #FoGgoweener: one-off episodes based on media that was recommended to us by our Patrons during our annual FoGgoween party. This week's entry is the indie vampire road movie, STAKE LAND, recommended to us by Continuity Guru Steve Beckley, who also guests with us for the conver…

On this special Sunday edition of The Fear of God, Nathan invites back to the show author, professor, and Christian ethicist Dr. David Gushee for discussion about his new book: DEFENDING DEMOCRACY FROM ITS CHRISTIAN ENEMIES. While the work's title certainly pulls no punches about its themes, both its content and this conversation is incredibly thou…

For the past couple of months (with a brief intermission through folk horror), we've been working our way through the film catalogue of M Night Shyamalan. The landmark successes, the mind-boggling disappointments, the polarizing visions, and -- of course -- all the twists got the Fear of God treatment in individual episodes. Now, we come to the gra…

If you like what we do at the Fear of God, we'd like you to consider becoming a Patron. You'll get extended episodes every week and special invitations to online events and hangouts. You'll also receive exclusive bonus episodes, like this one we're previewing today on WIDE AWAKE, the often forgotten first widely distributed film by director M Night…

As part of our weeks-long journey through the films of M Night Shyamalan (#Shyamalamarama!) we've also been steadily charting our way through the Apple TV+ original series: SERVANT. We now reach the culmination of that journey, wherein we'll breakdown some specifics about the last four episodes of Season 4 and discuss our feelings about the show as…

As referenced a few times in this week's episode, we recently had the privilege to sit down with Josh Larsen, author and podcaster at Think Christian and Filmspotting to discuss his newest release, FEAR NOT!: A CHRISTIAN APPRECIATION OF HORROR. The book is an easily digestible and remarkably thorough journey through some of the landmarks of horror …

We're nearly at the end of #Shyamalamarama, our journey through the catalogue of M. Night Shyamalan. This week's stop is where most people encountered him for the first time: the landmark thriller with the mega-twist, THE SIXTH SENSE. We're joined by Quarterly Queen Jess Fischli to dive into all that's "So" and "Ain't" right about what remains his …