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Category Archives: Anxiety
When we feel vulnerable and weak
How to face the vulnerability of living, suffering, and dying in a finite, fragile and fallen world. Continue reading
Anxiety loses!
Total, Total, Total attack on anxiety! Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Fear, Peace, Worry
Tagged Anxiety, Fear, Peace, Philippians 4:7, Worry
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The science of hope
Intriguing look at hope and science. Hope is real, proven by science, and willpower is the switch (The right stimulus) that triggers this amazing ability to change for the better… Continue reading
Posted in 18 Year factor, Anxiety, Depression, Despair, feeling hopeless, Hope?, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Despair, hope and the brain, loss of hope, power of hope, science of hope
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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair
Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Assurance, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Call to ministry, Character, Childhood trauma, Christian life, Comfort, Complaceny, Conceit, Conflict, Contentment, Crisis, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Divine Lottery, Doubt, Elders, elders in the Church, Emerging Leaders, Emotions, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Fear, feeling hopeless, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Grace, Gratitude, Grieving, Hope?, Kindness, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Loss, marriage problems, Meaning of life, Mercy, Middle life, Mind Renewal, Nihilism, Pain, Pastors, personal, Praise, Prayer, purpose, Questioning God, Repentance, Sadness, Seeking God, Selfishness, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Temptation, Trials, Truth, Victory, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom, Worship
Tagged burn out, Despair, Discouraged, feeling lost, helpless, hopeless, loss of perspective, spiritual exhaustion, Suicide
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The expanded role of medical doctors
Although doctors are primarily charged with caring for physical health, over the last three to four decades, doctors have been called to take the role that was once reserved for a different profession. Continue reading
Posted in ADHD, Anxiety, Biopsychology, Christian Counselor, Counseling, Depression, Despair, Doctor, Holistic ministry, Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Social work, sociology, Wisdom
Tagged Anxiety, holistic treatment of patients, medical doctors at risk, new difficulties for medical doctors, pharmachology, role of medicine for depression
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How does it feel to be so rich?
Do you think of yourself as one of the wealthiest people of human history? The facts about wealth should challenge the way most of us think and live. Continue reading
Posted in Andy Stanley, Anxiety, Belief, Character, Chesterton, Confession, Gay, George Beverly Shea, Graduates
Tagged feeling discontent, how to get rich, rich people, Statistics on wealth, wealthy people
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Feeling discouraged?
We all know what it is like to feel discouraged. Take a moment and consider four recommendations for times of discouragement. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Assurance, Burnout, Christian worldview, Comfort, Defeat?, Depression, Despair, discouraged, Discouragement, Encouragement, Eternal life, Eternal security, Fear, Fear of death, God's Love, Grieving, Hope?, Mercy
Tagged feeling defeated, Feeling depressed, feeling discouraged, feeling down, Feeling hopeless, what to do when discouraged
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How to overcome a condemning heart
Assurance of our standing before God is not a static propositional truth to believe. Assurance is experienced in the active transformed life of Christlike love. Following the example of what Jesus did for us through acts of sacrificial love is a strong means for assuring our heart before God. Continue reading
The anxiety we feel in death
Our Creator did not allow death to have the final word. Life in our present physical bodies is not our only existence. Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Afterlife, Anxiety, Assurance, Atheism, Comfort, Death, Eternal life, Fear of death, Jesus Christ
Tagged afraid to die, Death, Fear of Death, Heaven, life after death, Resurrection
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Discouragement – a “dis” on courage
We cannot adequately encourage those who have lost perspective without discouraging them from a frame of mind that binds them to their discouragement. (Read it again).
Getting out of the fog of despondency often requires a little loving admonishment. Caring friends will cross this line with love and sensitivity when they sense we need a better perspective. Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Attitude, Bitterness, Christian Counselor, Christian life, Christian worldview, Comfort, Complaceny, Complaining, Confession, Counseling, Depression, Despair, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith, Holistic ministry, Joy
Tagged Counseling, dealing with discouragement, Depression, Despair, Discouraged
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