Tag Archives: fear

These days it seems everyone is wound a little tight—even teens. With an infinitely long list of homework, sports schedules squeezed just a little too tight and mounting pressure to fit in at school, it isn’t any wonder why your heart and mind are stressed. Stress and anxiety are natural. ...

Security, a sense of safety, is a basic need.  Even secular psychology recognizes this fundamental, biblical truth.  In fact, our human minds have only two default pathways to choose: faith or fear.  The path of fear leads to captivity and death.  The path of faith leads to hope and life.  ...

As Christians, most of us are familiar with the Ten Commandments, even reciting most of them from memory. We know that God loved the whole world and sent His Son. We know His Words as our Shepherd in the 23rd Psalm. But the Bible is filled with beautiful Scriptures that are ...

Guilt is emotional torment. Nagging symptoms of guilt occur when you believe–accurately or not–that you have compromised your belief system or violated a moral standard. Closely related to the concept of remorse, guilt darkens our countenance. Even Sigmund Freud, father of psychiatry, stated: “guilt is the most powerful of all ...

One in five veterans are diagnosed with it. That’s 300,000 to 340,000 people.[1],2 But those numbers are mere estimates because some  never come forward. I’m talking about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (aka PTSD), and the devastating effect it’s having on our troops and their families—many of whom suffer in silence. Earlier ...