“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” Romans 8:26 Anxiety, I’ve learned over the years, is an enemy always hiding in the bushes just ahead of us. It calls […]
I can’t keep track of how many anxiety gurus and self-help books assume that anxiety is something you have to get rid of. That’s a natural response, so I don’t fault people for it. In fact, I had the same response for a while. But I do oppose it now as often as I can […]
Hey Friends, I wanted to give you a sneak peek at my book on anxiety. Click HERE to read the introduction. And let me know if you’d like to be part of a team to spread the message about it!
This post contains affiliate links. This is a draft of one of my chapters from my forthcoming book on anxiety (the title of which I’m still debating). Hope it’s helpful! Throughout, I reference the CHRIST acronym, which I unpack in the book. I’ve put a picture of that below for your reference. We have to […]
[[Note: This post contains affiliate links.]] I’ve been thinking a lot lately about anxiety disorders (my own and others’) as I work on my next book (Struck Down but Not Destroyed: Living Faithfully with an Anxiety Disorder, coming 2019, God willing). In preparation, I read John Mark Comer’s excellent book, My Name Is Hope (you can read my review HERE). I’m currently […]
When Does Anxiety Become a Sin? Men, Know Yourselves and Speak
2:35pm. Minutes before joining a friendly podcast to discuss writing as a Christian vocation, I found myself pacing in the office. My throat felt too small, like a rolled up piece of paper slowly constricting. The sensation made me swallow every few seconds: my mind’s way of making sure everything was still working. I swung […]
This is another post in a series of reflections on anxiety, which I offer candidly as one who has struggled with an anxiety disorder for over a decade. In the other posts, I talked about how having an anxiety disorder is like being crushed. To be crushed by God is not to be destroyed by him, […]
In the last post (Responding to Anxiety: Hearing the Divine Voice), we looked at how anxiety can unstop our spiritual ears, allowing us to hear God’s voice in the pages of Scripture. In that sense, anxiety is a sort of spiritual medicine. In this article, I want to focus on that voice and how it […]
In the previous post (Responding to Anxiety: Being Crushed, Being Called), we saw how an anxiety disorder both crushes us and yet enables us to hear God’s call. The latter part is what I want to focus on in this article. It is well known that sheep are not the best listeners; they are stubborn […]