Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 7): Nearsightedness 18 Sep 2019 Myopia is a fairly common vision problem where objects that are far away tend to be blurry. The light penetrating the eye cannot focus on the retina properly, and as…
Anger On Building and Venting Anger 29 Aug 2019 There are two popular theories about how to best escape the hold of our angry emotions. On the one hand we often depict anger like the boiling water in the…
Community… Rethinking Christian Community (Part 1) 28 Aug 2019 I was not the first, nor will I be the last, young man to read through the book of Acts have questions. As a high school student I remember meeting…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 6): Generalizations 27 Aug 2019 A bad experience does not predetermine the future. It can certainly feel this way at times, and when it feels like one bad thing after another comes our way it…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 5): Mind-Reading 14 Aug 2019 "I bet they think I am stupid!" "I know that they don't want to be my friend anymore." "She is probably angry at me because I forgot to call her…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 4): Jumping to Conclusions 23 Jul 2019 Anxiety makes everything seem so urgent. We feel the immediate need to make decisions, to react, to respond, to do something. There is a mounting pressure in our minds and…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 3): False Extremes 17 Jul 2019 Anxiety is often related to our interpretation of events. We saw last week how anxiety often tempts us to focus on the worst possible outcome in any given situation (Catastrophizing).…
Books Review “The Intentional Christian Community Handbook” by David Janzen 15 Jul 2019 There was a time when I was younger that I was interested in joining a Christian commune. There were so many things about it that resonated with me. I entertained…
Anxiety Anxiety’s False Interpretations (Part 2): Catastrophizing 10 Jul 2019 Catastrophes refer to those devastating and tragic turn of events that ruin lives. We may think of environmental events like earthquakes and hurricanes and volcano eruptions. Anxiety tends to live…
Personal Update on a New Book Project 8 Jul 2019 Many of my readers may already know this, but I have officially signed a contract with New Growth Press to write a new book. Last year I had the joy…
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