Anxiety is often thought of as an individual struggle, yet it also invades systems and relationships, leaving not just people but whole communities stuck in its grip. Steve Cuss helps identify why anxiety affects people and groups but also practical steps forward to loosen anxiety’s grip, like therapy or using medicine such as a london…
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On a Boat in the Middle of a Storm
The older I get the more I see today’s culture validating toxic behavior, making this world a toxic environment to live in. The anti-thesis of the Gospel is the accepted norm: you are what you do; survival of the fittest; the hardest and most conniving worker wins the day. Stress is something only kept at bay…
How God Wants to Use Your Anxiety
We’ve all dealt with anxiety and stress before. Some of us more than others, but anxiety is not a foreign concept to any of us. And more than likely we’ve experienced the wonderful moment when someone shares this verse to encourage us to get over our anxiety: Do not be anxious about anything, but in…
The Three
1. My friend and fellow Moody author Rhett Smith recently wrote a great article for Relevant Magazine on marriage and the struggle many of us have with what commitment in marriage truly is. He hones in on the phrase “two becoming one” to discuss how difficult it really can be, something mostly overlooked by couples…
The Three
1. Tom Lin spoke at a conference in Austin, TX last week where he focused on church leadership within the American church but went in a totally different and refreshing direction than I’m used to hearing. By focusing on how the American church makes leadership sexy without teaching the importance of suffering, I believe Tom…