We recommend this Ed Welch post — Talking to Our Souls
Where Is Your Focus?
by Lisa Leidenfrost It is helpful, when you find everything to be confusing and you can’t make sense of your situation or God, to always go back to what you do know. Stand on things that are fact and can never change. These things will give you an anchor for interpreting the confusion around you. […]
God Loves Cliffhangers
by Douglas Wilson This post can be found here. As we deal — as we all must do — with troubles, affliction, difficulties and so on, the toughest thing to remember is that God is handstitching these problems for us, and He is doing this so that they will fit us perfectly. We don’t grasp this […]
Rest For Your Soul — Anxiety
Hi George, It sounds like you all are going through a pretty tough time. I’ll be praying for you both. I don’t know very much about CBT and hypnosis. I do know something about anxiety, God, and the Bible. If Sandy’s anxiety is not linked to the medication, but to the thoughts connected with the […]
The Doors
by Lisa Leidenfrost Worry, it seems like just a natural part of us that can’t be helped, or can it? Why do we worry and what is going on? Why don’t we just trust the Lord automatically when the possibility of something hard looms on the horizon? I think it would help to know what […]
Gracious is the Lord
Lisa is a counselor here with the Center for Biblical Counseling. She is married to Csaba Leidenfrost who for the past 25 years has been a translator for Wycliff Bible Translators and the Bakwe people, in the Ivory Coast. For the past several years Csaba and Lisa have been stranded here in the states because […]
contentment requires enormous strength!
Gaining contentment does not mean losing sorrow or saying goodbye to discomfort. Contentment means sacrificing itchy cravings to gain a settled soul. You give up one thing for another. It’s hard. Hard, but sweet. You are “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.” You “have nothing, yet possess everything.” First Timothy 6:6 says, “Godliness with containment is great […]
Fear, Worry, and Anxiety
Introduction: The motto of many twenty-first century Christians seems to be, “Why trust when you can worry?” Some realize it is wrong and try to hide their worry by giving it other titles such as “concerned,” “troubled,” “disturbed,” “interested,” or “bothered.” Regardless of the term used, worry saps your energy, drains your joy, destroys vision, […]
Worried about Health
Worry is a thought, image, or emotion which comes upon us when have stopped trusting God and try to figure out our future on our own. But we are limited in our perspective and can’t actually see into the future and so we worry. While it is true that we are all dying and that […]