Unburden Your Soul To God

Unburden Your Soul To God – “Prayer is the means God has given us for unburdening our souls. This is important to consciously, biblically affirm. Otherwise, we may feel weighed down with anxiety, with guilt, with discouragement, or with sorrow and yet have no solution for these soul burdens.”

On Converting Our Fears into Requests and Living for God Through Christ

On Converting Our Fears into Requests and Living for God Through Christ – “Perhaps one of the most important observations to make about this passage is that the test of someone’s faithfulness in handling fear is not in not experiencing it but in what one does with it. It is too easy to pat ourselves on the back for not being anxious about anything.”

As Jesus Sleeps

As Jesus Sleeps – “Jesus is not worried—ever. Why? Because God, his Father (and their Father, and ours), is in heaven. He loves us more than he loves the birds and flowers. And everything is his.”

How to Live for God Through the What-If Game

How to Live for God Through the What-If Game – “Many of us are rather advanced in the art of worry. For those of us in this camp, it is an unfortunate skill we have developed and honed over the course of many years. We started young and have kept at it.”

Don’t Think About Elephants!

Don’t Think About Elephants! – “Paul knew that telling the Philippians not to be anxious would not work. It is not enough to tell someone to not be anxious; you need to direct them to something more productive. The famous passage in Philippians 4 has two basic instructions for what we can do to deal with anxiety.”

Anxious for Nothing

Anxious for Nothing – “Here are three things I’m reminding myself in this new season of being anxious for nothing.”

Spiritual Gloom and Psalm 42

Spiritual Gloom and Psalm 42 – “It’s a Psalm littered with remedies reliable enough to cure the sickness of spiritual gloom.”

 

Trust Isn’t Just About Me

Trust Isn’t Just About Me – “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

Don’t Worry, Be Thankful

Don’t Worry, Be Thankful – “Worry is a choice. We don’t think of it that way, of course. To us, worry is just what happens when you’ve got a lot on your mind, but the scriptures insist that worry is a choice that we’re making.”

Dear Anxious Heart, I Want You To Know...

Dear Anxious Heart, I Want You To Know... – “Friend, you’re not alone.”

All This Wasted Worry

All This Wasted Worry – “I find it strange that I don’t have a problem trusting the Lord with my eternity, but I am loathe to trust him with my day.”

The Antidote to Anxiety During Troubled Times

The Antidote to Anxiety During Troubled Times – 3 Realities of for Peace in Troubled Times

3 Reasons for Hope in the Face of Grief and Worry

3 Reasons for Hope in the Face of Grief and Worry – “We are not at the mercy of arbitrary, impersonal forces; we are in the hand of our loving God.”

From “What if” to “Even If”

From “What if” to “Even If” – This is a helpful, biblical perspective on the things that worry us.

The Most Important Thing

The Most Important Thing – “What if, in your hurry and your worry about so many little things, you actually missed the most important thing?”

Rest Upon the Pillow of God’s Promises

Rest Upon the Pillow of God’s Promises – When sleep is hard to come by due to worries, fears, stress, and to-do lists, there’s help. “How? Here’s a brief encouragement: a picture, a story, and a memory device.”

Little Golden Worries

Little Golden Worries – We tend to idolize our worries. We meditate on our anxieties more than we dwell on who God is.” 

Bearing Burdens, Being Gods

Bearing Burdens, Being Gods – “My call is not a call to global ignorance but local faithfulness. One of my concerns is that our rightful concern for the vast brokenness and injustice around the world distracts us from faithfulness in our neighborhoods and churches.”

A Happy Song

A Happy Song – “The Psalms are perfect psychology. What is psychology? The scientific study of how people behave, think, and feel. It investigates the connections between feeling, thinking, and doing.”

What Is Anxiety?

What Is Anxiety? – “When do these proper concerns turn into sinful ones? When does godly care become godless worry?”