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Two helpful concepts when looking at anxiety:1: Consider anxiety as an 'agent' by which I mean it has agency. My argument has always been that anxiety has agency over us
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Frustrated with someone? A person in your life generating anxiety in you? Anxiety says, 'they are the problem' and whoa nellie, they might be the problem or they might be
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There are 4 spaces in life, 3 we can do something about. We spend too much time and energy focusing on the one that we cannot and ought not try
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The events of the week have shaken us all. Murray Bowen described 'societal regression.' Anxiety is contagious in any group and a society is one giant interconnected group, so over
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Every generation holds a spiritual value different from the generation before. And we often arrogantly judge the previous generation for their value, because we see the temptation of it and
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Pastors, may I encourage us to not use the 'we're bringing God to ______' language? The presumption is painful and exposing. More than a few times when I check the
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John says 'perfect love casts out fear.' Perfect love displaces fear. I think fear can displace our awareness and experience of perfect love. It cannot displace God's love, but it
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I've been doing more study on the constant critic(s) that every church leader deals with. Its amazing how a steady group of 2-5 critics can really tax a leader's health
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One guaranteed source of anxiety for a faith leader: a gap between what we proclaim, what we believe and what we experience from God. Minding that gap becomes essential to
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We carry our family of origin into every encounter. Sometimes they carry us. A question to ponder: What two traits did I inherit from my family that are an asset
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Freedom, peace, love. One source of anxiety: a double bind. So many pastors I know want to be Eugene Peterson or Henri Nouwen, but also want to be on the
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My chaplain supervisor said, 'The ER doesn't cause the dynamic in a family, it simply reveals and then heightens what it already there.' Close families got closer, tense ones got
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