Christian evangelist and podcast host Bryce Crawford says frightening nightmares have tested his resolve, but he refuses to let fear stop him from sharing Jesus.
“I don’t have to be afraid with Christ,” he said on the “Bryce Crawford Podcast.”
The conversation moved from an unsettling account of Instagram messages to a more personal question: What happens when fear follows someone into sleep? Crawford described recurring nightmares and said he understood them as spiritual attacks aimed at making him less bold about his faith. He recalled one three-week stretch in which the same nightmare returned in different scenarios.
He worried about what giving in to that fear could cost. Near the end of the exchange, he explained that he did not want either his ego or his fear to keep him from pointing people toward Jesus.
Earlier, Crawford recalled becoming ill while planning the social media videos and podcast he considers his ministry. He said he subsequently discovered voice messages from a group he described as witches sending spells, listened to part of one and stopped.
Crawford said he prayed with mentors and later attended a medical appointment where doctors told him he had a stomach ulcer related to stress. He interpreted the experience as spiritual opposition; that is his account, not an established medical explanation for his illness.
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Rather than describe himself as someone who never encounters anything frightening, Crawford explained why he refuses to let those experiences set the direction of his life. His answer kept coming back to Christ and the people he wants to reach.
That aim also shapes his public work, which includes campus outreach, live events, sermons and digital videos, all serving a mission of reaching people with the Gospel and training Christians to do the same.
His ministry’s statement of beliefs identifies the Bible as the guide for faith and conduct and salvation as God’s gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Those convictions help explain why Crawford talks about spiritual conflict without treating the people around him as beyond hope.
He drew that distinction when the discussion turned to whether Christians should love their enemies. Crawford described even a personal enemy as a human being made in God’s image, someone who may have suffered and still has hope.
“I love my enemies. I don’t love the enemy,” he said, distinguishing people from Satan.
Jesus’ instruction in Matthew 5:43-48 calls His followers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them. Rejecting evil does not give believers permission to stop loving people.
Crawford also referred to the biblical description of the devil as a roaring lion. The surrounding passage, 1 Peter 5:6-11, pairs a serious warning to stay alert and resist the devil with an invitation to cast anxiety on God because He cares.
For Crawford, the concern is not only what happens in a nightmare. It is whether fear will follow him into the next conversation and keep him quiet about the Savior he wants others to know.
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