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When My Thoughts Lie to Me
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When My Thoughts Lie to Me

When my inner world was so gray and cloudy, was it any wonder that I perceived everything around me through the same dark lens? Was it any wonder that, a few months before this when my therapist tasked me with making a list of 100 good things in my life, it took me almost a month to do so?

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What’s My Next Step?
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What’s My Next Step?

You might find yourself feeling like you’re treading water. You aren’t in the places that you’ve left behind, but you aren’t yet in the places that you thought God was calling you to. There’s a constant back and forth between what was and what is not yet, but all the while you feel like you aren’t really anywhere.

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Clinical Anxiety Isn’t What the Church Thinks It Is
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Clinical Anxiety Isn’t What the Church Thinks It Is

All I knew about anxiety had come from my church. And all my church taught was that anxiety was worry. It was a failure to trust God with my future. And if I prayed and ‘genuinely gave it to God’, it would go away.

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When It Feels Like We're Drowning
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When It Feels Like We're Drowning

When I’m in a place of utter chaos, floundering around and feeling like I’m going under, who am I calling out to? Am I jumping on social media and looking for validation and safety in other people’s content? Or am I catching my breath and calling out to the One who never left me in the first place, the One who was present from the beginning telling me I could “come” despite the chaos of the storm swirling around me?

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What the Bible Says About Peace
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What the Bible Says About Peace

There’s so much going on in the world, and it can be overwhelming. Whether we’re struggling with troubles in our own lives or feeling the barrage of bad news every time we look at the headlines, peace can feel elusive – if not impossible. All that can leave us wondering, “How can we find peace with everything going on?”

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With Trauma Came OCD, but Then Came Jesus
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With Trauma Came OCD, but Then Came Jesus

I knew I had anxiety, but I couldn’t help but notice mine was different to what my friends would describe. While theirs seemed to be about a consistent worry or fear, mine changed when something more traumatic or worrying than the last thing reared its ugly head.

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Help! I Can’t Stop Overthinking!
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Help! I Can’t Stop Overthinking!

This issue of destructive thought patterns has been on my heart for some time, and I have learned that we can claim back our imaginations—we have to! The reality is, our feelings are extremely misleading and can’t always be trusted.

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What Do We Do When We’re Paralysed by Choice?
Madeleine Scholefield Madeleine Scholefield

What Do We Do When We’re Paralysed by Choice?

There are important decisions we all face that are wise to deliberate on, of course, like what to study, which job to take, and if/who to marry. But what do we do when we’ve prayed about it, written the pros and cons list, and we still can’t choose?

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The Truth Behind the Verse That Says “Don’t Be Anxious”
Stephen Unwin Stephen Unwin

The Truth Behind the Verse That Says “Don’t Be Anxious”

I’m sure we’ve all seen Philippians 4:6 plastered on a cosy-looking book cover or quoted in a talk at church or maybe even rattled off by a well-meaning friend when we’ve shared something we’re worried about: “Do not be anxious about anything…” But if you’ve had those words spoken to you—whether by an inanimate object or an actual person—I wonder if they’ve always been what you needed to hear?

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