Life Is Hard. God Is Good.

After moving 4,295 kilometres, I arrived at my new city. On the same day, I was in the emergency room, urgent care (later in the day), lost my rental, and had our hotel fall through. All this with four kids trekking along with various maladies. You could say it was an exciting day. Twenty-four hours later, we had short-term accommodations set up thanks to a church relationship. God was good, even on a particularly hard day. But that should be no surprise. According to Psalm 119:68, God is good and does good. So David can say, “The Lord is good...

Wyatt Graham

God Is Trustworthy Even When He Seems Absent

Scott Hurst

Slow down Today. Or burn out Tomorrow.

Wyatt Graham

Yanick Ethier: Cast your anxieties upon him (1 Peter 5:6–7)

Yanick Ethier

‘Everyday Wisdom,’ Episode 1: How to Deal with Melancholy and Anxiety

Wyatt Graham • Steve Bray

Is It a Sin to Be Anxious during COVID-19?

Paul Carter

Martin Luther said famously: “Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair”[1]. Apparently, the quotation originally referred to the lusts of the flesh, but it could equally apply to the matter of anxiety. Anxiety, on one level, is simply a physiological response to changes in one’s natural environment. It is part of the “fight or flight” mechanism that prepares us to respond to threats to our survival and has no moral quality in and of itself in...

Is It a Sin to Be Anxious during COVID-19?

Paul Carter

The Hymn-writer William Cowper Stills My Anxious Soul

Miranda Webster

Two nights ago, I broke out with hives unexpectedly. I examined my diet, asking myself: “What did I have for dinner?” Nothing new or unusual. It was after a shower. No new products. “Where did this come from and why?” Puzzled, I’m still not sure. Like the unexplainable hives, COVID-19 is puzzling, leaving most of us wondering where this came from. Sure. We know where; we know why; we know how; we know all the symptoms, yet we’re still in the unknown. And, this awakens in the soul eternal realities. Often, we’re too distracted to hear or discern the whisper...

The Hymn-writer William Cowper Stills My Anxious Soul

Miranda Webster

God in Your Panic Attack

Charlene Nelson

My first panic attack happened when I was sixteen years old. I was an unbeliever visiting a Christian youth meeting, where songs by the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana were performed to draw kids in. I won’t praise the method, but the technique got me through the door. Despite his casual approach the preacher that night breached the wall of my highly-fortified personal pet-sin. His words confronted the untouched parts of my life. Being unable to stand the pressure, I rushed to the bathroom and had my first full-on, breath-sucking panic attack. A history of panic attacks On another occasion, I...

God in Your Panic Attack

Charlene Nelson

Fight Anxiety with the Presence of God

Courtney Vera

Anxious people consider themselves prophets. They excel at imagining worst case scenarios and creating litanies of ‘what if’ questions. The thought life of the anxious person is like a dryer with a broken heat setting—the clothes tumble around and around in endless rotation but never change their state. I know this because I have been this person and I continue to fight against fearful thoughts. But God has helped me and is helping me. He has shown me life-changing truths in His Word that provide a way of escape from cyclical anxious thinking and offer the peace I so desperately...