“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety.”–George Muller
I found this quote as I was reading my teaching of Psalm 77. How well that quote dovetails with what I have been learning in Philippians 4:6-9. This passage deals head-on with the issue of anxiety [...]
Archive for the ‘worry’ Category
Attacking anxiety
Posted in worry on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Faith thinks, worry doesn’t
Posted in Christian life, worry, worry, tagged faith, lloyd-jones, worry on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A gem from the doctor (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones):
Faith, according to our Lord’s teaching in this paragraph, is primarily thinking; and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he does not think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. That is the real difficulty in life. Life comes to us with a club [...]
Action steps for anxiety
Posted in worry, worry, tagged worry on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I preached on Philippians 4:6 yesterday and found these thought especially helpful as a follow-up to yesterday:
Paul Tripp has written, ‘The hardest thing to hold onto, but the most beautiful when we get it, is that what God promises to us in times of suffering is not first relief of the suffering. His promise is to [...]
Around the blogs: Rob Bell, excellence, Macarthur’s latest book, etc.
Posted in The church, audio/video, discernment, the gospel, worry, worry on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Johnson has a great “spot-on post about Rob Bell and why “evangelical” means nothing anymore. To know the current state of the church read this one. Rarely will find someone calling someone a heretic, but I think Phil nails this one.
Prepared to say “AMAZING!”(But also take time to read the spiritual application this pastor [...]
A calm and quiet heart
Posted in Prayer, quotes, worry, worry, tagged anxiety, Prayer, worry on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope [...]
“Don’t worry: are you kidding me?”
Posted in worry on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All worriers will benefit from this resource. And if you aren’t a worrier, you probably know one–especially with all the heightened anxiety over the economy and other issues currently.
CCEF is reprinting an article by David Powlison on worry. You can read it in four parts:
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
JT gives the basic overview of the [...]
