What is grace? How does it affect our lives?

What is grace? How does it affect our lives?

What's our initial reaction and emotion when someone is different than we are? Why?

Few words buzz more than the word anxiety. Rarely used ten years ago, today anxiety is common place in the English lexicon. But why? Why does anxiety so efficiently capture our struggles? What role do our thoughts play in our anxiety? From this question, we can begin to explore what happens when we learn to monitor our thoughts in order to reject what is toxic and more fully dwell on what is helpful. What if anxiety isn't a new phenomenon? What if dealing with dread is as old as the human experience? What if those of us who struggle mightily with anxiety have failed to develop certain skills that promote thriving? How has insecurity, whether yours or another's, affected you and your relationships?

As parents, how do we navigate the intersections that form when our will intersects with that of our kids? How do we navigate the tension between freedom and constraint? Does God relate?

Few words buzz more than the word anxiety. Rarely used ten years ago, today anxiety is common place in the English lexicon. But why? Why does anxiety so efficiently capture our struggles? What role do our thoughts play in our anxiety? From this question, we can begin to explore what happens when we learn to monitor our thoughts in order to reject what is toxic and more fully dwell on what is helpful. What if anxiety isn't a new phenomenon? What if dealing with dread is as old as the human experience? What if those of us who struggle mightily with anxiety have failed to develop certain skills that promote thriving? What if some portion of your anxiety struggle stems from a larger struggle with toxic thinking?

Few words buzz more than the word anxiety. Rarely used ten years ago, today anxiety is common place in the English lexicon. But why? Why does anxiety so efficiently capture our struggles? What role do our thoughts play in our anxiety? From this question, we can begin to explore what happens when we learn to monitor our thoughts in order to reject what is toxic and more fully dwell on what is helpful. What if anxiety isn't a new phenomenon? What if dealing with dread is as old as the human experience? What if those of us who struggle mightily with anxiety have failed to develop certain skills that promote thriving? What if experiencing anxiety is normal?

What is the meaning of blessing? What happens when Christ-followers understand blessed to be a blessing?

What is the value of remembering the ways that God has already been good to you? What unknowns, whether frightening or exciting or both, are you looking toward? What if your quality of life is conditional upon your ability to remember?

What if Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer so that we'd have something to cling to? To center our thoughts upon? To ground our emotions? Something to guide us when life's circumstances insist we merge? Understood in this way, the Lord's Prayer becomes the framework for our thoughts. It calms while lying awake at night, redirects while waiting for a train, leads in the face of terror, and connects us to a God who is near. What if God gives us permission to ask that we not face difficulty?